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 social movements and 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 and intersectional practices of dissent.
Jennifer Ramme obtained her doctorate at the European University Viadrina (EUV) in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, where she worked among others as a researcher and lecturer at the Chair of European Studies. She completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Cultural Studies (primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick, EUV; secondary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft, University of Vienna) with a dissertation entitled “Contested Polish and European Gender Orders: Feminist and LGBTQ* Movements Struggles for Belonging, Space and Representation. The work, published in 2025 by transcript Verlag, formulates a political-aesthetic theoretical approach to the analysis of movements and deals, among other things, with the formation processes of a popular feminist movement in Poland.
Furthermore, she has also researched and published on the topics of creative and artistic forms of protest, cultures of remembrance and politics of history in movements, as well as right-wing gender and sexual politics. 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.
Publications (selection):
Monograph:
Strittige Geschlechterordnungen. Kämpfe feministischer und LGBTQ*-Bewegungen in Polen und Europa (engl. Contested Gender Regimes. Struggles of Feminist and LGBTQ* Movements in Poland and Europe)
The book examines the emergence of feminist movements in Poland, as well as the debates surrounding 'Polish' and 'European' gender orders, against the backdrop of socio-political changes from the late 1980s onwards. A notable highlight was the wave of protests in response to the tightening of abortion laws in 2016 and 2021/22, which sparked a significant feminist movement. The author analyses the processes that led to this movement's emergence and discusses key conflicts and transformations relating to gender and sexuality. Empirical case studies examine the relationship between gender and sexual regimes and belonging and representation. The focus is on the sensible distribution and spatial dimensions of those regimes, as well as the struggles related to them. Through the combination of spatial-theoretical and political-aesthetic approaches, the author aims to avoid taking 'identities' and the associated socio-political and sensible regimes ordering belonging for granted, instead considering them as central matters of contestation.
Language: German. Published in September 2025, ISBN: 978-3-8376-7703-4
Open Access Link
Editorials:
Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, Vol. 10 No. 3 (2024): Unsettling Gender, Sexuality, and the European East/West Divisions. Eds. Maria Mayerchyk, Olga Plakhotnik, Jennifer Ramme. Online: https://intersections.tk.hu/index.php/intersections/issue/view/40 (Open Access, published end of December 2024)
Cornelia Möser, Jennifer Ramme, Judit Takács (eds.): Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe, Palgrave/Springer Europe 2022. Online: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81341-3
Elżbieta Korolczuk, Beata Kowalska, Jennifer Ramme, Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez (eds.). Bunt kobiet - czarne protesty i strajki kobiet, ECS, Gdansk 2019. Online: https://ecs.gda.pl/publikacje/bunt-kobiet/ (Open Access)
Single Author Publications (selection):
Jennifer Ramme (2024): Disintegrative Feminism in the 1990s-2000s and its Continuity Modes of Activism, Attitudes and Memory Cultures. In: Kasten, Anna (ed.): Feminist Post-Socialism Research. Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. Weinheim. Belz Juventa. 2024. 216-232.
Jennifer Ramme (2023): Big Men and Crybabies: The Situating of Women* in Punk and Memory/Archival Practices in (Post)Socialist Poland. In: Dreckmann, Kathrin; Semmerling, Linnea; Vomberg, Elfi (eds.), Fringe of the Fringe. Queering Punk Media History. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 106-121.
Jennifer Ramme (2022): Aufbegehren der Kollektive - zwischen Gleichschritt und Polyphonie (Rise of the Collectives – Between Lockstep and Polyphony). In: Positionen. Texte zur aktuellen Musik, 130, 1.