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Radford Benjamin <1970-> |
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Bad clowns / / Benjamin Radford ; designed by Lila Sanchez |
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Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Clowns - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A short history of the earliest clowns -- The despicable rogue Mr. Punch -- The unnatural nature of the evil clown -- Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns -- Bad clowns of the Ink -- Bad clowns of the Screen -- Bad clowns of the Song -- The carnal carnival: Buffoon boffing and clown sex -- Creepy, criminal, and killer clowns -- Activist clowns -- Crazed caged carny clowns -- The phantom clowns -- Troll clowns and the future of bad clowns. |
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Bad clowns--those malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten us--have long been a cultural icon. This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them. Going beyond familiar clowns such as the Joker, Krusty, John Wayne Gacy, and Stephen King's Pennywise, it also features bizarre, lesser-known stories of weird clown antics including Bozo obscenity, Ronald McDonald haters, killer clowns, phantom-clown abductors, evil-clown panics, sex clowns, carnival clowns, troll clowns, and much more. Bad Clowns blends humor, investigation, and scholarship to reveal what is behind the clown's dark smile. This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them. |
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UNINA9910514181903321 |
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Bjørkdahl Kristian |
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Academic Flying and the Means of Communication / / edited by Kristian Bjørkdahl, Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte |
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Springer Nature, 2022 |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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1 online resource (376 pages) |
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Franco DuharteAdrian Santiago |
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Human geography |
Science - Social aspects |
Education - Research |
Communication in science |
Human Geography |
Science and Technology Studies |
Research Methods in Education |
Science Communication |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Chapter 1: Introduction: ending the romance of academic flying -- Chapter 2: The carbon footprint of travelling to international academic conferences and options to minimise it -- Chapter 3: The end of flying: coronavirus confinement, academic (im)mobilities and me -- Chapter 4: The absent presence of aeromobility: a case of australian academic air travel practices and university policy -- Chapter 5: How environmentally sustainable is the internationalisation of higher education? a view from australia -- Chapter 6: Who gets to fly? -- Chapter 7: Exceptionalism and evasion: how scholars reason about air travel -- Chapter 8: Academic aeromobility in the global periphery -- Chapter 9: The virus and the elephant in the room: knowledge, emotions and a pandemic – drivers to reducing flying in academia -- Chapter 10: Decarbonising academia’s flyout culture -- Chapter 11: |
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Aeromobilities and academic work -- Chapter 12: Means and meanings of research collaboration in the face of a suffering earth: a landscape of questions -- Chapter 13: Academic air travel cultures: a framework for reducing academic flying. . |
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This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past? The chapters in this book respond to this call in three steps. It documents the consequences of academic flying, it investigates the issue of why academics fly, and it begins an effort to think through what can replace flying, and how. Finally, it confronts scholars and scientists, students, activists, research funders, university administrators, and others, with a call to translate this research into action. Kristian Bjørkdahl is a rhetoric scholar at the University of Oslo. He currently does research on the organization of science communication work, and on how the idea of Nordic colonial innocence is used rhetorically. He has been editor or co-editor of several volumes, including Pandemics, Publics, and Politics (Palgrave, 2019). Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte is a lawyer pursuing postgraduate study at the University of Oslo. He has experience from public-private partnerships, social and environmental dispute resolution, and infrastructure projects. He is currently conducting research on the role of social media communication in environmental disasters. |
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