Zoe Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 834086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoe Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5640-2944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crafting Democratic Futures
As a growing number of states and municipalities consider reparative policies for Black Americans, it is important to understand what shapes support for and opposition to these policies. We explore the role that awareness of racial inequality plays in shaping attitudes. Drawing on data from a large, representative survey in Detroit and one national survey, we find that awareness of racial inequality plays a powerful role in the likelihood of supp…
By Any Means Necessary? How Black and White Americans Evaluate Protest Tactics in Response to a Police Killing
The majority of protests in support of racial justice are peaceful. However, since the racial reckoning of 2020, there has been debate about when and how exposure to violent or disruptive protest activities can shift public opinion towards a social movement. Using the Black Lives Matter Movement as a lens, we design a survey experiment to test the causal effects of different protest tactics on support for protesters and the movement itself among …
A Sensibility of Humour
What does it say about you if you enjoy sexist humour? One answer to this question holds that finding sexist humour funny reveals that you have sexist beliefs, whilst another holds that it reveals nothing deeper about you at all. I argue that neither of these answers are correct, as neither can capture the feeling of unwilling complicity we often get from enjoying sexist jokes. Rather, we should navigate between these two positions by understandi…
Just Kidding? Two Roles for the Concept of Joking in Political Speech
In this paper, I discuss two roles for the concept of joking in political speech. First, I discuss how claiming to have been joking can provide speakers with a powerful form of deniability. I argue that the aesthetic dimension of jokes makes such a denial especially well placed to undermine both a hearer's evidence for an utterance having been sincere, and, separately, their belief that it was sincere—I call the latter ‘aesthetic gaslighting’. Se…
The ironic state
Britain is a nation that takes comedy seriously. For many, to be British is precisely to have a sense of humour of a certain kind, marked by irony and self-deprecation; and the British comedy industry is an extremely prosperous business, with great success both domestically and globally. Given the centrality of comedy to the national identity, then, we might wonder: what is the relationship between British comedy and Britain as a (global) politic…
A Governance Spectrum
The size, scale and diversity of protected areas in Belize provide an informative case study of system management and governance that can offer a model for countries with expanding systems. The Belize National Protected Areas System is proportionately large for the size of the country, with terrestrial protected areas covering 36.6 per cent of the national territory and 19.8 per cent of the marine environment. The 108 sites in the National Protec…
The ironic state
Britain is a nation that takes comedy seriously. For many, to be British is precisely to have a sense of humour of a certain kind, marked by irony and self-deprecation; and the British comedy industry is an extremely prosperous business, with great success both domestically and globally. Given the centrality of comedy to the national identity, then, we might wonder: what is the relationship between British comedy and Britain as a (global) politic…
Crafting Democratic Futures
As a growing number of states and municipalities consider reparative policies for Black Americans, it is important to understand what shapes support for and opposition to these policies. We explore the role that awareness of racial inequality plays in shaping attitudes. Drawing on data from a large, representative survey in Detroit and one national survey, we find that awareness of racial inequality plays a powerful role in the likelihood of supp…
A Sensibility of Humour
What does it say about you if you enjoy sexist humour? One answer to this question holds that finding sexist humour funny reveals that you have sexist beliefs, whilst another holds that it reveals nothing deeper about you at all. I argue that neither of these answers are correct, as neither can capture the feeling of unwilling complicity we often get from enjoying sexist jokes. Rather, we should navigate between these two positions by understandi…
Just Kidding? Two Roles for the Concept of Joking in Political Speech
In this paper, I discuss two roles for the concept of joking in political speech. First, I discuss how claiming to have been joking can provide speakers with a powerful form of deniability. I argue that the aesthetic dimension of jokes makes such a denial especially well placed to undermine both a hearer's evidence for an utterance having been sincere, and, separately, their belief that it was sincere—I call the latter ‘aesthetic gaslighting’. Se…
A Governance Spectrum
The size, scale and diversity of protected areas in Belize provide an informative case study of system management and governance that can offer a model for countries with expanding systems. The Belize National Protected Areas System is proportionately large for the size of the country, with terrestrial protected areas covering 36.6 per cent of the national territory and 19.8 per cent of the marine environment. The 108 sites in the National Protec…
The ironic state
Britain is a nation that takes comedy seriously. For many, to be British is precisely to have a sense of humour of a certain kind, marked by irony and self-deprecation; and the British comedy industry is an extremely prosperous business, with great success both domestically and globally. Given the centrality of comedy to the national identity, then, we might wonder: what is the relationship between British comedy and Britain as a (global) politic…
Just Kidding? Two Roles for the Concept of Joking in Political Speech
In this paper, I discuss two roles for the concept of joking in political speech. First, I discuss how claiming to have been joking can provide speakers with a powerful form of deniability. I argue that the aesthetic dimension of jokes makes such a denial especially well placed to undermine both a hearer's evidence for an utterance having been sincere, and, separately, their belief that it was sincere—I call the latter ‘aesthetic gaslighting’. Se…
Crafting Democratic Futures
As a growing number of states and municipalities consider reparative policies for Black Americans, it is important to understand what shapes support for and opposition to these policies. We explore the role that awareness of racial inequality plays in shaping attitudes. Drawing on data from a large, representative survey in Detroit and one national survey, we find that awareness of racial inequality plays a powerful role in the likelihood of supp…
By Any Means Necessary? How Black and White Americans Evaluate Protest Tactics in Response to a Police Killing
The majority of protests in support of racial justice are peaceful. However, since the racial reckoning of 2020, there has been debate about when and how exposure to violent or disruptive protest activities can shift public opinion towards a social movement. Using the Black Lives Matter Movement as a lens, we design a survey experiment to test the causal effects of different protest tactics on support for protesters and the movement itself among …
A Sensibility of Humour
What does it say about you if you enjoy sexist humour? One answer to this question holds that finding sexist humour funny reveals that you have sexist beliefs, whilst another holds that it reveals nothing deeper about you at all. I argue that neither of these answers are correct, as neither can capture the feeling of unwilling complicity we often get from enjoying sexist jokes. Rather, we should navigate between these two positions by understandi…
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