The Politics of Joking: Narratives of Humour and Joking among Adults with Asperger's Syndrome

Autor/in	Rosqvist, Hanna Bertilsdotter
Titel	The Politics of Joking: Narratives of Humour and Joking among Adults with Asperger's Syndrome
Quelle	In: Disability & Society, 27 (2012) 2, S.235-247 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0968-7599
DOI	10.1080/09687599.2011.644933
Schlagwörter	Autism; Asperger Syndrome; Foreign Countries; Attitudes toward Disabilities; Humor; Adults; Personal Narratives; Ethnography; Social Influences; Discussion Groups; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Asperger-Syndrom; Ausland; Humoristische Darstellung; Erlebniserzählung; Ethnografie; Sozialer Einfluss; Schweden
Abstract	The purpose of this article is to analyse how humour and narratives about humour are used in a natural group of adults with Asperger's syndrome. Narratives about humour and use of humour in the group are analysed from a discursive psychological perspective, informed by insights from both disability studies and critical autism studies. The setting of the research is ethnographic fieldwork in an educational setting in Sweden. In the paper, I show the use of three storylines among a natural group of people with autism (PWA) when talking about humour: the storyline of humourless PWA that dominates within Swedish society; and two alternatives, a storyline of alternative humour among PWA and another storyline in line with the social model of disability, of neurotypical humour or disabling humour. When invoking these two alternative storylines, PWA challenge both the humourlessness storyline and the lack of social accessibility within mainstream neurotypical settings. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10