Jennifer Ramme
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Marie Curie Action Fellow
Her research centres on social movements, gender, queer and intersectionality in the field of cultural sociology, cultural and music history. Research interests include: collective and individual practices (or situations) of dissent; cultural production in everyday life, music and art; the production of orders and their incompatibility; social upheavals and political transformations; cultures of memory and archiving of social movements.
Ramme's post-doc project Rebellious Youth Movements, Alternative Music Cultures and Intersectional Critique in (Post)State Socialist Poland (1977-1995) (REBYOUTH) at the University of Graz deals with women*, black and queer actors* during the period of state socialism up to the 1990s and the cultural legacy they left behind.
She completed her doctoral studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, at the Faculty of Cultural Studies under Prof. Dr Kira Kosnick (Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology) and second supervision by Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Claudia Kraft (Contemporary History) University of Vienna. The dissertation entitled Strittige polnische und europäische Geschlechterordnungen. Kämpfe feministischer und LGBTQ*-Bewegungen um Zugehörigkeit, Raum und Repräsentation [Contested Polish and European Gender Regimes. Feminist and LGBTQ* Movements Struggling for Belonging, Space and Representation] deals, among other things, with the formation processes of the feminist movement in Poland from a political-aesthetic and spatial sociological perspective and will be published by transcript. At the European University Viadrina, she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Chair of European Studies and the Chair of German-Polish Cultural and Literary Relations and Gender Studies at the Collegium Polonium (Słubice, Poland). In addition to her academic work, she is involved in the fields of culture and education and documents social movements, cultural practices and collects artefacts as part of the Alterarchive/Social Unrest Archiv.
OCRID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2153-5077
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer-Ramme
Research project ongoing
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellowship at University Graz (Austria) and the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (Poland). Start: August 2024 LINK
RebYouth main objective is to explore an entirely new area of research by focusing on the largely overlooked histories of Women*, Queer, Black and People of Colour (W*-Q-BPoC) in rebellious, dissident youth movements and alternative music cultures from the late1970s of late state socialism to the early 1990s in Poland. The focus is on cultural heritage, dissident/cultural practices, infrastructures of support and collisions with dominant social, cultural and political regimes.
Objectives are amongst others the mapping of W*-Q-BPoC dissidence history and cultural heritage with focus on music in the broader context of independent culture; capturing and analyzing life time biographies and oral history accounts of W*-Q-BPoC actors; analysing intersectional dissidence and collisions of sensible orders and developing a concept of intersectional critique. Although the country focus of REBYOUTH is on Poland, but cross-border links between movement and culture are also examined.
The project aims to contribute to the documentation and preservation of the cultural heritage of W*-Q-BPoC actors and movements. Research outcomes will be shared amongst other on a project website and open access publications.