Feeling the trouble
Comic Politics in Times of Ecological Crises
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4329322 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lars Tønder (0000-0003-3755-7462, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2025.2489208 |
| OpenAlex | W4409981660 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Drawing on the works of Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and others, this article explores how incongruity comedy – defined incongruous encounters that traverse human and nonhuman boundaries – reveal the shared vitality needed to make ecological care come alive. Through case studies of Aristophanes’ The Wasps, Moche pots, and Koko the gorilla, the article argues that incongruity come with the potential to disrupt human/nonhuman-hierarchies and foster attention to the entanglements that sustain life. Overall, the article proposes a ‘genre shift’ in environmental storytelling, emphasizing incongruity comedy’s ability to integrate joy and wonder with critique and action. By redirecting the affective terrain of climate change politics away from despair and towards vitality, incongruity comedy can inspire democratic experimentation and localized practices of care. This shift, the article contends, is vital for cultivating the resilience needed to address ongoing ecological crises
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Comics · Feeling · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
The Case for Rage
Democracy and the Foreigner
Introducing narrative psychology
Metahistory
Greek Laughter
The Indoor People’s Enchanted Ecologies
Eco-comedy
Matters of care
Anger and Forgiveness
Comedy and critical thought
The strength and content of climate anger
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes
Aristophanes and Politics
The Fragility of Things
Moving Democracy
Spinoza and the Theory of Active Tolerance
We Are Radical In Our Kindness
A Laughing matter? Confronting climate change through humor
Climate imaginaries as praxis
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Fictionality in New Materialism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |