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"The article is interested in the role of humour employed in memes on X by the government of Ukraine in the war following the invasion by Russia in 2022. It brings insights from cultural and humour studies as well as psychology into politics and shows how and what kind of humour the government aroun ... more

"While the importance of visualization of war, conflict, and violence has gathered great momentum in disciplines such as International Relations (IR), far less has been said about the visualization of peace in IR, history, and even in Peace and Conflict Studies. As Maria Elena Diez Jorge and Francis ... more

"Visual metaphors stand at the border between text and image, as they are linguistic figures that visualize the spoken. Based on this assumption and on the existing knowledge on the discourse analytical method of metaphor analysis, Part One of the article develops a method of visual metaphor analysi ... more

No relief from war: The use of humour in memes by the government of Ukraine and the limitation of laughter

Visualizing Peace: The State of the Art

Visualität und Weltpolitik: Praktiken des Zeigens und Sehens in den Internationalen Beziehungen

Moving Images: Visual Metaphors of Peace in the Movie Mango Dreams