Esther Romeyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 252937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Romeyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Romeyn |
| SIGNATURE | ROMEYN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0961-9080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlife of Images
In How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlife of Images, Sara Blair extends the interest that informed her earlier work Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (2007) to what she here calls “America’s ur ghetto” (1), the Lower East Side.1 At the center of Blair’s concerns is the relation of these urban spaces to American modernity, a relationship that, as Blair argues, has been mediated by…
(Anti) ‘new antisemitism’ as a transnational field of racial governance
This article sets out to discuss the emergence of (anti) ‘new antisemitism’ as a transnational field of governance, and particularly as a field of racial governance. Romeyn’s interest is not so much in the ‘facts’ of antisemitism or ‘new’ antisemitism, but in the ways in which it functions as a ‘power-knowledge’ field in which a cast of actors—global governance actors, such as the United Nations, UNESCO, the Organisation for Security and Co-Opera…
Liberal tolerance and its hauntings: Moral compasses, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
The pro-Gaza demonstrations that marked the summer of 2014 were trailed by a concern over the intensity of anti-Semitism among European Muslims and accusations of ‘double standards’ with regard to anti-Muslim racism. In the Netherlands, the debate featured a nexus between the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, freedom of speech and the limits of tolerance, which beckons a closer analysis. I argue that it indicates the place of the Holocaust …
Asylum seekers, citizenship and reality TV in the Netherlands: Quizzing Refugees in Jeopardy
This article interrogates a Dutch jeopardy style TV show, Weg van Nederland, featuring young, well-educated asylum seekers about to be deported. The TV program, devised in collaboration with the advocacy group ‘Defense for Children,’ performed the paradoxes resulting from the ‘inclusive exclusion’ of asylum seekers. Yet, its strategy of inscribing the contestants into the space of citizenship by highlighting their ‘rootedness’ through the quiz fo…
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Spectropolitics and Immigration
In the context of the Dutch immigration debate, tributes to the Holocaust and the memory of Europe's dead Jews increasingly serve to dismantle multiculturalism as a failed paradigm and to drive a wedge between a revitalized, redeemed, color-blind, post-racial Europe and disenfranchized immigrant, minority and Muslim populations. Embedded in these invocations of the Holocaust and its moral imperatives is a 'spectropolitics' of tolerance, in which …
Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924
'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Spectropolitics and Immigration
In the context of the Dutch immigration debate, tributes to the Holocaust and the memory of Europe's dead Jews increasingly serve to dismantle multiculturalism as a failed paradigm and to drive a wedge between a revitalized, redeemed, color-blind, post-racial Europe and disenfranchized immigrant, minority and Muslim populations. Embedded in these invocations of the Holocaust and its moral imperatives is a 'spectropolitics' of tolerance, in which …
(Anti) ‘new antisemitism’ as a transnational field of racial governance
This article sets out to discuss the emergence of (anti) ‘new antisemitism’ as a transnational field of governance, and particularly as a field of racial governance. Romeyn’s interest is not so much in the ‘facts’ of antisemitism or ‘new’ antisemitism, but in the ways in which it functions as a ‘power-knowledge’ field in which a cast of actors—global governance actors, such as the United Nations, UNESCO, the Organisation for Security and Co-Opera…
Liberal tolerance and its hauntings: Moral compasses, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
The pro-Gaza demonstrations that marked the summer of 2014 were trailed by a concern over the intensity of anti-Semitism among European Muslims and accusations of ‘double standards’ with regard to anti-Muslim racism. In the Netherlands, the debate featured a nexus between the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, freedom of speech and the limits of tolerance, which beckons a closer analysis. I argue that it indicates the place of the Holocaust …
Asylum seekers, citizenship and reality TV in the Netherlands: Quizzing Refugees in Jeopardy
This article interrogates a Dutch jeopardy style TV show, Weg van Nederland, featuring young, well-educated asylum seekers about to be deported. The TV program, devised in collaboration with the advocacy group ‘Defense for Children,’ performed the paradoxes resulting from the ‘inclusive exclusion’ of asylum seekers. Yet, its strategy of inscribing the contestants into the space of citizenship by highlighting their ‘rootedness’ through the quiz fo…
Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924
'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation
Asylum seekers, citizenship and reality TV in the Netherlands: Quizzing Refugees in Jeopardy
This article interrogates a Dutch jeopardy style TV show, Weg van Nederland, featuring young, well-educated asylum seekers about to be deported. The TV program, devised in collaboration with the advocacy group ‘Defense for Children,’ performed the paradoxes resulting from the ‘inclusive exclusion’ of asylum seekers. Yet, its strategy of inscribing the contestants into the space of citizenship by highlighting their ‘rootedness’ through the quiz fo…
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Spectropolitics and Immigration
In the context of the Dutch immigration debate, tributes to the Holocaust and the memory of Europe's dead Jews increasingly serve to dismantle multiculturalism as a failed paradigm and to drive a wedge between a revitalized, redeemed, color-blind, post-racial Europe and disenfranchized immigrant, minority and Muslim populations. Embedded in these invocations of the Holocaust and its moral imperatives is a 'spectropolitics' of tolerance, in which …
Liberal tolerance and its hauntings: Moral compasses, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
The pro-Gaza demonstrations that marked the summer of 2014 were trailed by a concern over the intensity of anti-Semitism among European Muslims and accusations of ‘double standards’ with regard to anti-Muslim racism. In the Netherlands, the debate featured a nexus between the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, freedom of speech and the limits of tolerance, which beckons a closer analysis. I argue that it indicates the place of the Holocaust …
How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlife of Images
In How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlife of Images, Sara Blair extends the interest that informed her earlier work Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (2007) to what she here calls “America’s ur ghetto” (1), the Lower East Side.1 At the center of Blair’s concerns is the relation of these urban spaces to American modernity, a relationship that, as Blair argues, has been mediated by…
(Anti) ‘new antisemitism’ as a transnational field of racial governance
This article sets out to discuss the emergence of (anti) ‘new antisemitism’ as a transnational field of governance, and particularly as a field of racial governance. Romeyn’s interest is not so much in the ‘facts’ of antisemitism or ‘new’ antisemitism, but in the ways in which it functions as a ‘power-knowledge’ field in which a cast of actors—global governance actors, such as the United Nations, UNESCO, the Organisation for Security and Co-Opera…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Islamophobia (3 works)