Humour and comics for academic change and well-being
通过结合批判性参与行动研究与双人自传法,开发了关于学术生活的幽默漫画项目《学术线》,探讨其如何促进团结、反思、福祉与变革,为改善学术环境提供新路径。
Considering recent calls for change towards a more liveable tourism academia, we combined critical participatory action research with duoethnography to develop The Academic Line —a humorous comic project about academic life. We used traditional theories of humour to leverage the effectiveness of comics as communicative devices and explored how and to what extent our project promoted solidarity, reflexivity, well-being, and change. This study reveals our concrete commitment to fostering change within and potentially improving academia, and to experiment with a form of communication, which is still underexplored in the scholarly sphere but fruitfully applied in other contexts to raise awareness of and prompt discussion about crucially important issues.