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Weaver, S. (2023) 'Towards a theorization of racist humour and affect: Book Review of The Souls of White Jokes. How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy, by Raúl Pérez'. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 30 (5). pp. 763 - 766. ISSN: 1070-289X Open Access Link

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Lockyer, S. and Weaver, S. (2022) 'On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology'. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 25 (5). pp. 645 - 657. ISSN: 1364-5579 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2021) 'The Rhetoric of Brexit Humour. Comedy, Populism and the EU Referendum'. Routledge. ISSN 13: 9780367350987

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Weaver, S. (2019) 'Brexit Tricksters and the Reconstruction of Taboo. Populism, Irony and Satire in Post-Referendum Britain'. Comedy Studies, 10 (2). pp. 154 - 166. ISSN: 2040-610X Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2018) 'Brexit Irony on The Last Leg and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Critiquing Neoliberalism through Caricature', in Webber, J. (ed.) The Joke Is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books. pp. 65 - 86. ISBN 10: 1498569846. ISBN 13: 978-1498569842. Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. and Ozieranski, P. (2016) 'New European tricksters: Polish jokes in the context of European Union labour migration'. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19 (5). pp. 577 - 591. ISSN: 1367-8779 Open Access Link

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Martin, G., Currie, G., Weaver, S., Finn, R. and McDonald, R. (2016) 'Institutional complexity and individual responses: delineating the boundaries of partial autonomy'. Organization Studies, 38 (1). pp. 103 - 127. ISSN: 0170-8406 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. and Mora, RA. (2016) 'Introduction: Tricksters, humour and activism'. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19 (5). pp. 479 - 485. ISSN: 1367-8779 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2016) 'Working to laugh: assembling difference in American stand-up comedy venues'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39 (13). pp. 2483 - 2485. ISSN: 0141-9870 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. and Bradley, L. (2016) '“I haven’t heard anything about religion whatsoever”: Audience perceptions of anti-Muslim racism in Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator'. Humor: international journal of humor research, 29 (2). pp. 279 - 299. ISSN: 1613-3722 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S., Mora, RA. and Morgan, K. (2016) 'Introduction. Gender and humour: Examining discourses of hegemony and resistance'. Social Semiotics, 26 (3). pp. 227 - 233. ISSN: 1035-0330 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2016) 'Entertainment and Race', in Stone, J., Dennis, RM., Rizova, P., Smith, AD. and Hou, X. (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. First Edition. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 10: 1405189789. ISBN 13: 9781405189781.

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Weaver, S. (2016) 'Humor and Race', in Stone, J., Dennis, RM., Rizova, P., Smith, A. and Hou, X. (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. First Edition. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 13: 978-1-4051-8978-1.

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Mora, RA., Weaver, S. and Lindo, LM. (2015) 'Editorial for special issue on education and humour: Education and humour as tools for social awareness and critical consciousness in contemporary classrooms'. European Journal of Humour Research, 3 (4). pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 2307-700X Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2015) 'The rhetoric of disparagement humor: An analysis of anti-semitic joking online'. Humor: international journal of humor research, 28 (2). pp. 327 - 347. ISSN: 1613-3722 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2014) 'Book Review: Greg Philo, Emma Briant and Pauline Donald, Bad News for Refugees, Pluto Press: London, 2013; 203 pp.: £15.00.'. European Journal of Communication, 29 (5). pp. 631 - 633. ISSN: 1460-3705 Open Access Link

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Ozieranski, P., Robins, V., Minion, J., Willars, J., Wright, J., Weaver, S., et al. (2014) 'Running a hospital patient safety campaign: a qualitative study'. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 28 (4). pp. 562 - 575. ISSN: 1477-7266 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2014) 'Foolstowns', in Attardo, S. (ed.) SAGE Encyclopaedia of Humour Studies. London, New Delhi and Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications. pp. 245 - 246.

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Weaver, S. (2014) 'Ethnic Jokes', in Attardo, S. (ed.) SAGE Encyclopaedia of Humour Studies. London, New Delhi and Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications. , 1. pp. 214 - 215.

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Weaver, S. (2014) 'Ethnicity and Humor', in Attardo, S. (ed.) SAGE Encyclopaedia of Humour Studies. London, New Delhi and Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications. , 1. pp. 215 - 219.Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2013) 'A rhetorical discourse analysis of online anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic jokes', in Meer, N. (ed.) Racialization and Religion: Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. pp. 99 - 115. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-71501-0.

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Weaver, S. (2013) 'A rhetorical discourse analysis of online anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic jokes'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36 (3). pp. 483 - 499. ISSN: 0141-9870

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Martin, GP., Weaver, S., Currie, G., Finn, R. and McDonald, R. (2013) 'The medium-term sustainability of organisational change in the National Health Service: a comparative case study of clinically led organisational innovations. Final report.'. Place of publication: National Institute for Health Research. Available at: http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/85105/FR-09-1001-40.pdf.

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McNicol, S. and Weaver, S. (2013) '“Dude! You mean you’ve never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?!?” Nut allergy as stigma in comic books'. Health Communication, 28 (3). pp. 217 - 225. ISSN: 1041-0236

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Weaver, S. (2013) '‘Strangers', ‘others’ and the unstable metaphors of race representation in liquid modernity: the case of the Gypsy weddings', in Davis, M. (ed.) Liquid Sociology. Metaphor in Zygmunt Bauman’s Writings on Modernity. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing. pp. 121 - 137. ISBN 13: 9781409438878.

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Martin, GP., Weaver, S., Currie, G., Finn, R. and McDonald, R. (2012) 'Innovation sustainability in challenging healthcare contexts: embedding clinically led change in routine practice'. Health Services Management Research, 25 (4). pp. 190 - 199. ISSN: 0951-4848

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Pitchforth, E., Weaver, S., Willars, J., Wawrzkowicz, E., Luyt, D. and Dixon-Woods, M. (2011) 'A qualitative study of families of a child with a nut allergy'. Chronic Illness, 7 (4). pp. 255 - 266. ISSN: 1742-3953

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Weaver, S. (2011) 'Jokes, rhetoric and embodied racism: A rhetorical discourse analysis of the logics of racist jokes on the internet'. Ethnicities, 11 (4). pp. 413 - 435. ISSN: 1468-7968

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Weaver, S. (2011) 'Liquid racism and the ambiguity of Ali G'. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 14 (3). pp. 249 - 264. ISSN: 1367-5494

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Weaver, S. (2011) 'Book Review: Sharon Lockyer (ed.), Reading Little Britain: Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television, I.B. Taurus: London and New York, 2010, 242 pp.: £12.99'. European Journal of Communication, 26 (1). pp. 77 - 80. ISSN: 0267-3231

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Weaver, S. (2011) 'The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking'. Ashgate Publishing. ISSN 10: 1409420116 ISSN 13: 9781409420118

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Weaver, S. (2011) 'Definitions of the humorous in Chris Rock and Russell Peters fan blogs: A discussion of the problem of incongruity'. Participations: journal of audience and reception studies, 8 (2). pp. 257 - 275.Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2010) 'Developing a rhetorical analysis of racist humour: Examining anti-black jokes on the internet'. Social Semiotics, 20 (5). pp. 537 - 555. ISSN: 1035-0330

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Weaver, S. (2010) 'The 'Other' laughs back: Humour and resistance in anti-racist comedy'. Sociology, 44 (1). pp. 31 - 48. ISSN: 0038-0385 Open Access Link

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Weaver, S. (2010) 'Liquid racism and the Danish Prophet Muhammad cartoons'. Current Sociology, 58 (5). pp. 675 - 692. ISSN: 0011-3921 Open Access Link

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Pitchforth, E., Weaver, S., Willars, J., Wawrzkowicz, E., Luyt, D. and Dixon-Woods, M. (2010) 'Qualitative study to explore the experiences of children and their families living with a nut allergy'.

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Weaver, S. (2010) 'The reverse discourse and resistance of Asian comedians in the West.'. Comedy Studies, 1 (2). pp. 149 - 157. ISSN: 2040-610X

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Weaver, S. (2007) 'Joint Review: Michael Billig, Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour; Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering (eds), Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour'. Sociology, 41 (3). pp. 575 - 578.

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