{"id":178,"date":"2020-08-14T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/?p=178"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:39:33","slug":"hannah-mccann-reads-sara-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/2020\/08\/14\/hannah-mccann-reads-sara-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah McCann reads Sara Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this episode, Dr. Hannah McCann<\/span><\/a>, a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and author of Queer Theory Now<\/i><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 joins us to read from Sara Ahmed<\/span><\/a>‘s ‘Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness’ (2010).<\/p>\n

Hannah introduces us to Ahmed’s re-reading and re-conceptualization of happiness, guides us through Ahmed’s use of etymology and wordplay, and helps us understand the powerful concepts of the ‘affect alien’ and ‘feminist killjoy’.<\/p>\n

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In this episode, Dr. Hannah McCann, a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and author of Queer Theory Now,\u00a0 joins us to read from Sara Ahmed‘s ‘Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness’ (2010). Hannah introduces us to Ahmed’s re-reading and re-conceptualization of happiness, guides us through Ahmed’s use of etymology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"theorist":[19980,103911],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","theorist-affect","theorist-sara-ahmed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"theorist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theorist?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}