On disability, humour and rabbit holes
A personal reflection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12311822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janine Natalya Clark (0000-0002-4060-4082, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1541-1545 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disability & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09687599.2022.2103792 |
| OpenAlex | W4288067726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This Current Issues piece offers a very personal reflection on the issue of disability and humour. It is about the author's relationship with humour in the context of an acquired neurological disability. This Current Issues piece explores the topic of disability and humour. While humour is not a novel theme within disability research, the author approaches it from the perspective of her own personal experience of living with an acquired neurological disability. The article highlights some of the complexities of humour in the context of disability, noting that the line between humour and offensiveness can be extremely thin. The article discusses two particular disability ‘storylines’ identified by Bertilsdotter Rosquist (2012) – the ‘socially critical storyline’ and ‘the storyline of “disability humour”’. It adds a third storyline, in which disability and humour can happily co-exist, but without disability necessarily being the direct object of that humour. The neurologist Dr Allan Ropper has described neurology patients as disappearing ‘down a rabbit hole’. For the author, humour is way of adapting to the ‘rabbit hole’ – but without disappearing down it
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Disability studies · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Theme (computing · Visual arts · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Hereditary Neurological Disorders · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |