Full Name
Rosemarie van den Breemer
Position/Title
postdoctoral fellow/associate professor
Organization/Company
VID Specialized University/ Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Speaker Bio
Rosemarie van den Breemer is an associate professor in comparative politics at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, since August 2022 and a postdoctoral fellow at VID Specialized University, Oslo, as part of a project on Citizenship and Disability (2020-2023), titled CITPRO. She holds a MA and M.Phil. from the New School for Social Research in New York and a PhD from the University of Oslo (2019). Her research interests include state governance of religion as well as the state governance of disability, both seen from a comparative and historical perspective. Moreover, in her work she connects everyday micropolitics with broader institutional regimes of structuration. She currently leads a postdoctoral project on ‘The Disability Family’ that charts families experiences with the care for children with congenital deafblindness. It thematizes families’ experiences with not being heard, or not being taken seriously, by service providers from within an analytic framework of epistemic injustice. The project is located at the nexus between deafblind, citizenship, and disability studies and uses a participatory action approach, involving co-researchers and a parent-organization in the process of investigation. Rosemarie also has years of lived experience as a mother of a child with congenital deaf blindness.
Rosemarie van den Breemer