Humor and nonviolent struggle in Serbia /

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"'If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide, ' wrote the late Mahatma Gandhi, expressing the potent power of humor to sustain and uplift. Less obvious is humor's ability to operate as a cunning weapon in nonviolent protest movements. Over the last few d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Čhančhirā Sombatphūnsiri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution.
Temas:
Milošević, Slobodan, > 1941-2006.
Otpor (Organization : Serbia) > History.
Otpor (Organization : Serbia)
1992-2006
Protest movements > Serbia > History.
Student movements > Serbia > History.
Wit and humor > Political aspects > Serbia > History.
Nonviolence > Political aspects > Serbia > History.
Political activists > Serbia > History.
Government, Resistance to > Serbia > History.
Contestation > Serbie > Histoire.
Mouvements étudiants > Serbie > Histoire.
Humour > Aspect politique > Serbie > Histoire.
Non-violence > Aspect politique > Serbie > Histoire.
Activistes > Serbie > Histoire.
Résistance au gouvernement > Serbie > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Government, Resistance to.
Political activists.
Politics and government.
Protest movements.
Student movements.
Serbia > Politics and government > 1992-2006.
Serbie > Politique et gouvernement > 1992-2006.
Serbia.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. A history of the Serbian sense of humor
  • Laughing at the misery : Serbian comedic culture
  • Coming to the fore : humorous protest actions in Serbia in the early 1990s
  • Coming of age : carnivalesque protests
  • Part Two. Otpor and its subversive humor
  • Fighting Milošević with Otpor's clenched fist : the campaigns
  • Strategic humor : satirical street theater, parodic protest actions, and carnivalesque events
  • Localizing strategic humor : how Milošević was mocked across Serbia
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: Otpor's legacy
  • Appendix A: Research methodology and data collection
  • Appendix B: Chronology of nonviolent struggle in Serbia in the 1990s.

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