Ruth Ramsden-Karelse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Ramsden-Karelse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramsden-Karelse |
| SIGNATURE | RAMSDEN-KARELSE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3274-6478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Queer social reproduction in the precarious city
This paper explores the practices and labours undertaken by queer people to reproduce shared households in London, and the uneven power relations, histories and economic conditions mediating this replenishment.Through bringing feminist geographical engagements with social reproduction into conversation with queer geographies of urban space, the article argues for greater attention to the hard work of social reproduction undertaken by queer shared…
Queer Precarities - Introduction for themed issue
In this introduction to the themed section, we begin to explore how queer and precarity might be used to analyse how vulnerabilities are constituted across diverse spaces. We situate the contents of the themed section in relation to the context in which it was worked on, defined by the Covid-19 pandemic and the increased precarisation of Higher Education workers in the United Kingdom, as well as current literature on queerness and precarity. The …
Toppling statues and making space
Statues have long been recognized as impositions of a particular past that legitimize a power-laden present. Consequently, toppling statues, and engaging with the space they once occupied, opens up the possibility of new and multiple narratives. This article takes this moment of possibility as its starting point. Drawing from nine case studies in five countries, and from thirty-one interviews with cultural activists and other stakeholders, we ide…
A precarious archive
This paper proposes that the dissemination of marginal archival resources can be informed by forms of socioeconomic precarity experienced by their creators and primary subjects. To account for these modes of circulation, the author proposes the notion of a precarious archive. The concept is developed with reference to the Kewpie Collection, an official though marginal archival resource containing photographs as well as recordings and transcripts …
The legacies of British slave ownership Catherine Hall talks to Ruth
The Legacies of British Slave Ownership project has explored the significance of slavery to Britain's history, including in the wealth it generated for industrialisation. Such research is crucial for understanding the present, given that disavowal of these legacies has been central to white British thinking. Its mapping of compensation awarded after abolition showed the widespread incidence of slave ownership across the whole of the UK. A further…
Moving and Moved
In 1998, the recently established Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa acquired about 600 photographs depicting a group of individuals assigned male at birth, who presented and expressed themselves according to conventions of femininity. The girls, as they called themselves, were classified as "Coloured" under apartheid and lived in District Six, Cape Town, when it was declared "Whites Only" in 1966, after which approximately 60,000 residents…
Toppling statues and making space
Statues have long been recognized as impositions of a particular past that legitimize a power-laden present. Consequently, toppling statues, and engaging with the space they once occupied, opens up the possibility of new and multiple narratives. This article takes this moment of possibility as its starting point. Drawing from nine case studies in five countries, and from thirty-one interviews with cultural activists and other stakeholders, we ide…
Moving and Moved
In 1998, the recently established Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa acquired about 600 photographs depicting a group of individuals assigned male at birth, who presented and expressed themselves according to conventions of femininity. The girls, as they called themselves, were classified as "Coloured" under apartheid and lived in District Six, Cape Town, when it was declared "Whites Only" in 1966, after which approximately 60,000 residents…
Queer social reproduction in the precarious city
This paper explores the practices and labours undertaken by queer people to reproduce shared households in London, and the uneven power relations, histories and economic conditions mediating this replenishment.Through bringing feminist geographical engagements with social reproduction into conversation with queer geographies of urban space, the article argues for greater attention to the hard work of social reproduction undertaken by queer shared…
A precarious archive
This paper proposes that the dissemination of marginal archival resources can be informed by forms of socioeconomic precarity experienced by their creators and primary subjects. To account for these modes of circulation, the author proposes the notion of a precarious archive. The concept is developed with reference to the Kewpie Collection, an official though marginal archival resource containing photographs as well as recordings and transcripts …
The legacies of British slave ownership Catherine Hall talks to Ruth
The Legacies of British Slave Ownership project has explored the significance of slavery to Britain's history, including in the wealth it generated for industrialisation. Such research is crucial for understanding the present, given that disavowal of these legacies has been central to white British thinking. Its mapping of compensation awarded after abolition showed the widespread incidence of slave ownership across the whole of the UK. A further…
Moving and Moved
In 1998, the recently established Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa acquired about 600 photographs depicting a group of individuals assigned male at birth, who presented and expressed themselves according to conventions of femininity. The girls, as they called themselves, were classified as "Coloured" under apartheid and lived in District Six, Cape Town, when it was declared "Whites Only" in 1966, after which approximately 60,000 residents…
The legacies of British slave ownership Catherine Hall talks to Ruth
The Legacies of British Slave Ownership project has explored the significance of slavery to Britain's history, including in the wealth it generated for industrialisation. Such research is crucial for understanding the present, given that disavowal of these legacies has been central to white British thinking. Its mapping of compensation awarded after abolition showed the widespread incidence of slave ownership across the whole of the UK. A further…
A precarious archive
This paper proposes that the dissemination of marginal archival resources can be informed by forms of socioeconomic precarity experienced by their creators and primary subjects. To account for these modes of circulation, the author proposes the notion of a precarious archive. The concept is developed with reference to the Kewpie Collection, an official though marginal archival resource containing photographs as well as recordings and transcripts …
Queer social reproduction in the precarious city
This paper explores the practices and labours undertaken by queer people to reproduce shared households in London, and the uneven power relations, histories and economic conditions mediating this replenishment.Through bringing feminist geographical engagements with social reproduction into conversation with queer geographies of urban space, the article argues for greater attention to the hard work of social reproduction undertaken by queer shared…
Queer Precarities - Introduction for themed issue
In this introduction to the themed section, we begin to explore how queer and precarity might be used to analyse how vulnerabilities are constituted across diverse spaces. We situate the contents of the themed section in relation to the context in which it was worked on, defined by the Covid-19 pandemic and the increased precarisation of Higher Education workers in the United Kingdom, as well as current literature on queerness and precarity. The …
Toppling statues and making space
Statues have long been recognized as impositions of a particular past that legitimize a power-laden present. Consequently, toppling statues, and engaging with the space they once occupied, opens up the possibility of new and multiple narratives. This article takes this moment of possibility as its starting point. Drawing from nine case studies in five countries, and from thirty-one interviews with cultural activists and other stakeholders, we ide…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cape (2 works)