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Dr Johanna Romer

Lecturer
Department of Sociology
Dr Johanna Romer

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Biography

Johanna Römer is a lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research examines how state power and political authority are produced through the everyday interactions and experiences of persons working within and subject to criminal justice institutions. Römer’s book manuscript, Race, Care and Carceral Statecraft is an ethnography of carceral practices of care and their effects in a Catalan prison. Other projects include research on the circulation of emotion and affect in digital publics. Her work has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Council for European Studies, the British Academy and the Independent Social Research Foundation.

Qualifications

  • PhD New York University,

  • BA University of Chicago,

Research and professional activities

Conferences and presentations

CommunityMapper: New Network Analytic Approaches to Understanding Ideological Communities on Social Media

22/10/2021

Roundtable on 'Trading Life'

Invited presentation, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, 29/5/2021

Enforcing Integration? Regulating and Constructing Legality in Catalan Prisons

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States, 1/6/2020

Epistemologies of the South

Invited presentation, Modern Language Association Presidential Roundtable, 10/1/2020

Rights, Regulation and Social Formations: New Directions in Legal Anthropology

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 22/11/2019

Borders, Biomes and Biospheres: Policing Beyond the Urban

Invited presentation, European Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, European Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, 12/9/2019

Meditations on Racial Justice

Invited presentation, Transitions Program, Engaged Pluralism Initiative, Vassar College, Vassar College, 31/7/2019

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Introduction to Social Anthropology (SC107)

  • Dangerous Ideas: Essays and Manifestos as Social Criticism Capstone (CS301)

Publications

Journal articles (6)

Romer, J., Building a Coalition of Makers: Conceptualizing the Relationship between Race and Producerist Politics in Trump's Discourse. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race

Romer, J., Building a Coalition of Makers: Conceptualizing the Relationship between Race and Producerist Politics in Trump's Discourse

Romer, J., Mapping Ideological Communities on Twitter: A Discourse Analytic Approach to Theorizing Ideological Alignment in Neo-Reactionary Networks. New Media and Society

Romer, J., The Moral Economy of Empathy: Race and the Socialization of Neoliberal Subjectivities in Catalan Carceral Governance. Ethos

Romer, J., Rethinking Reception Frameworks through Social Media: Tracking the Circulation of Political Discourse on Twitter

Römer, J., (2019). Ambiguous publicities: Cultivating doubt at the intersection of competing genres of risk evaluation in Catalan Prisons. Punishment and Society. 21 (3), 342-363

Books (1)

Romer, J., Prisoners of Empathy: Race, Care and Carceral Statecraft in Spain

Conferences (1)

Romer, J., (2007). La Semiótica del Discurso Jurídico

Grants and funding

2020

Deciphering Violence: New Network Analytic Tools to Improve Hate Speech Detection Online

Independent Social Research Foundation

2019

National Law, Transnational Justice? The Role of Legal Status in Parole Decision-Making in Catalonia, Spain

British Academy

Contact

johanna.romer@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 872665

Location:

5A.318, Colchester Campus