Abstract:Two decades of ‘terror’ crises have seen politicians, legal professionals and scholars struggle to cope with atrocities organised around some joke. From the alt-right smirk of the Christchurch killer at his televised court arraignment to the ‘Danish cartoons’ and the targeting of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine in France, a series of funny-not-so-funny international ‘incidents’ prompt us to ponder the cartoon nature of politics. Our investigation into cartooning, contextualised as part of ongoing war effo… Show more
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