All Stories

  1. Brexit tricksters and the reconstruction of taboo. Populism, irony and satire in post-referendum Britain

    Article • Comedy Studies, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Weaver

  2. Cate Watson: Comedy and Social Science. Towards a Methodology of Funny

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, November 2017, De Gruyter

    Simon Weaver

  3. Institutional Complexity and Individual Responses: Delineating the Boundaries of Partial Autonomy

    Article • Organization Studies, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Simon Weaver

  4. Introduction: Tricksters, humour and activism

    Article • International Journal of Cultural Studies, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Simon Weaver

  5. New European tricksters: Polish jokes in the context of European Union labour migration

    Article • International Journal of Cultural Studies, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Simon Weaver

  6. Working to laugh: assembling difference in American stand-up comedy venues

    Article • Ethnic and Racial Studies, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Weaver

  7. Gender and humour: examining discourses of hegemony and resistance

    Article • Social Semiotics, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Weaver

  8. “I haven’t heard anything about religion whatsoever”: Audience perceptions of anti-Muslim racism in Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Simon Weaver

  9. Entertainment and Race

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Simon Weaver

  10. Humor and Race

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Simon Weaver

  11. Editorial for special issue on education and humour: Education and humour as tools for social awareness and critical consciousness in contemporary classrooms

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, November 2015, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Simon Weaver

  12. The rhetoric of disparagement humor: An analysis of anti-semitic joking online

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Simon Weaver

  13. Running a hospital patient safety campaign: a qualitative study

    Article • Journal of Health Organization and Management, August 2014, Emerald

    Simon Weaver

  14. “Dude! You mean you've never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?!?” Nut Allergy as Stigma in Comic Books

    Article • Health Communication, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah McNicol, Simon Weaver

  15. A rhetorical discourse analysis of online anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic jokes

    Article • Ethnic and Racial Studies, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Weaver

  16. Jokes, rhetoric and embodied racism: a rhetorical discourse analysis of the logics of racist jokes on the internet

    Article • Ethnicities, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Simon Weaver

  17. The Rhetoric of Racist Humour

    Article • September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Weaver

  18. Developing a rhetorical analysis of racist humour: examining anti-black jokes on the Internet

    Article • Social Semiotics, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Weaver

  19. Liquid Racism and the Danish Prophet Muhammad Cartoons

    Article • Current Sociology, September 2010, SAGE Publications

    Simon Weaver

  20. The reverse discourse and resistance of Asian comedians in the West

    Article • Comedy Studies, September 2010, Intellect

    Simon Weaver

  21. The ‘Other’ Laughs Back: Humour and Resistance in Anti-racist Comedy

    Article • Sociology, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Simon Weaver