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About Louisa Hann
My primary interests revolve around the (sometimes disparate) fields of queer theatre and performance art, the political economy of theatre, cultural materialism, and Marxist theory. I am also interested in how the medical humanities intersect with questions of political economy and have published work on the memorialisation of HIV/AIDS on the contemporary stage and the use of documentary theatre as a neoliberal harm reduction tool. I'm currently working on a monograph for Liverpool University Press about HIV/AIDS theatre, activism, and community, and am interested in exploring new ways to connect with scholars in related fields.Louisa Hann has a PhD in English and American studies from the University of Manchester, specialising in the political economy of HIV/AIDS theatres. Her recent book, HIV/AIDS and the Stage, is out with Liverpool University Press: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781835537596
NBN Episodes hosted by Louisa:
October 29, 2024
Unseasonable
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the d…
August 13, 2024
Cyberboss
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers ar…
May 26, 2024
Future of Denial
The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green-washing distract the public from the climate v…
April 21, 2024
Settler Ecologies
Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya (University of Toronto Press, 2024) tells the story of how settler colonialism …
February 26, 2024
Technofeudalism
In Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Melville House, 2023), Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new economic era has begun. …
January 31, 2024
Late Fascism
In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we…
November 28, 2023
The Age of Insecurity
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who …
May 5, 2023
Deadly and Slick
If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? In Deadly and Slick: Sexual …
December 10, 2022
No Other Planet
Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. In No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Clima…
October 19, 2022
The Informational Logic of Human Rights
What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and victims become ve…
September 29, 2022
Hegemony Now
Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it? We can…
August 31, 2022
Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies
What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of …
July 6, 2022
Art in the After-Culture
It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spect…
May 11, 2022
Cancel Culture
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical media st…
April 27, 2022
Planetary Longings
In Planetary Longings (Duke UP, 2022), eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first …
March 7, 2022
Sex, Consent and Justice
Increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law, and gender relations have taken centre stage in academic, journalistic and so…
January 21, 2022
Confidence Culture
In Confidence Culture (Duke UP, 2022), Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in your…
December 17, 2021
De-Centering Queer Theory
Bogdan Popa’s De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War (Manchester University Press, 2021) seeks to re…