Research project Humor as serious business: Power and resistance in multiethnic educational contexts
Humor can work both inclusively and exclusively and be both normative and subversive. Humor also enables a conversation space, where it can be pronounced that otherwise may not be said.
The project focuses on the use and effects of humor in young people's peer relationships and in interaction between young people and adults in different educational contexts.
Project members
Project managers
Anna Gradin Franzén
Universitetslektor
Members
Rickard Jonsson
Professor
Martina Wiksten
Doktorand
Publications
Jonsson, R., & Franzén, A. G. (2025).
Excluding unlaughter: Humor as affective practice in a youth detention center for boys. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
Jonsson, R. (Accepted).
Fyra nyanser av rashumor: Henrik Schyffert och det performativa-affektiva arbetet att hantera gamla skämt, Sociologisk forskning.
Jonsson, R., & Franzén, A. G. (forthcoming).
The (laughing) man behind the uniform: Humorous learning encounters between youth and police. In P. Aarsand, C. Tønseth, JM. Stenøien & L. Aarsand, (Eds.), Learning in everyday practices. Palgrave McMillan.
Wiksten, M. (Accepted).
Negotiation (collective) identity: Authentication and community in youth talk about comedy. European Journal of Humour Research.
Wiksten, M., Jonsson, R., & Franzén, A.G. (Accepted).
“If you want some pussy, give us freedom”: Girls’ taboo-breaking humor between the subversive and the normative. Gender and Language.