Amanda Källstig

Amanda's research interests include comedy, postcolonial international relations theory, resistance, and subjectivity particularly in the context of the African continent.

Her current doctoral research deals with what stand-up comedy in Zimbabwe can tell us about resistance and subjectivity. Through a fieldwork based approach she looks at how stand-up comedy intervenes politically exploring how the genre interrupts the way both state and society constructs 'Zimbabwean-ness'. Her previous publications include "Laughing in the Face of Danger: Performativity and Resistance in Zimbabwean Stand-up Comedy" available in Global Society (2021).