ABSTRACT
This chapter author theorised players' use of humour and irony in producing ethical athletic selves. Hamish's doctoral humour and irony chapter took Elmarie's and Kathie's thinking on a line of flight towards our use of humour and irony in our lives as academics, including in response to some of the tensions of our positionings in the neo-liberal university. He used Ultimate as a case example to examine individuals' relationships to socio-culturally formed and located discourses about how self and others should be treated. Hutcheon argues that irony carries a sharp evaluative edge. As part of the work of becoming recognizable as an academic, Hamish theorised the use of humour and irony in the production of ethical athletic subjectivities in Ultimate Frisbee. By taking pleasure in the use of humour and irony in academic life, people together contribute to the de-naturalising of neo-liberal strategies of governance, and thus to the production of possibilities for ethical academic subjectivities.
