Saskia Schäfer
Biographic Data
| ID | 72609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saskia Schäfer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saskia |
| FAMILY NAME | Schäfer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÄFER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4390-2958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Potentials and limitations of podcasts as an assessment format for teacher students – a comparative case study from human geography
Podcasts become more and more popular in university teaching and learning. However, there is a lack of systematic understanding of how podcasts used as assessment format impact students’ competence gains compared to conventional written assignments. This study explores the potentials and limitations of using podcasts as an assessment format for education students. A human geography study project for teacher students at a German university serves …
Green Industries Without Institutional Support—The Case of the Danish Wine Industry
Green regional industries are increasingly recognised as pivotal in addressing diverse environmental crises. While the role of institutions in fostering green industries is well‐established, limited research exists on the dynamics of green industry creation without institutional support. Employing a mixed‐method approach, we investigate the case of the Danish wine industry to analyse the relationships and conditions facilitating the greener wine …
Entrepreneurial ecosystem as a spatially fluid concept: New territorial perspectives on entrepreneurship
Living together beyond liberal democracy: Examples of local decision-making and managing resource extractivism in Indonesia
This article combines literature and insights from three different fields: comparative political thought, comparative politics, and area studies. It highlights critical gaps in empirical democracy studies and advocates for more encompassing notions of democracy and deeper integration with post-development, ecofeminist, and democratic economic planning perspectives. Indonesia's post-reform electoral democracy has facilitated elite-driven resource …
Political homophobia: The rise of anti-queer rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey
This article comparatively analyses the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey in the 2010s and early 2020s. In both countries, periods of greater public visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the early 2000s were followed by waves of severe anti-LGBT rhetoric, violence, and legal measures. This analysis focusses on the rhetoric that conservative state and non-state actors use to other non-heteronormative people and to exclude them from the n…
Work futures: Globalization, planetary markets, and uneven developments in the gig economy
The world of work is changing rapidly in myriad ways. The processes of digitization are enabling workers from different parts of the world to compete in a global market over the Internet without moving to different locations. Many employers are opting for hybrid working solutions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, some commentators have suggested the end of globalization, while others are hoping that a fairer society will emerge. Thi…
Contextualizing the Contextualizers: How the Area Studies Controversy is Different in Different Places
As part of recent years’ efforts at reaching a more context- and diversity-sensitive study of international relations, the nexus between fields of IR and Area Studies (AS) has received a renewed attention. While AS is usually presented as the “contextualizer” of the disciplines, this forum reverses the perspective by suggesting that an awareness of both diversity and context is also relevant when it comes to understanding the evolution of the fie…
Recruiting and integrating international high-skilled migrants – Towards a typology of firms in rural regions in Germany
In rural regions in Germany, significant demographic shifts have raised the question as to whether increased employment of international high-skilled migrants can help to address pressing challenges, i.e., a shortage of labor, a lack of corporate internationalization, and reduced innovation activities. While firms play a key role in this context by actively recruiting migrants and harnessing their skills and competences, little is still known abo…
Who belongs where? Geographies of (inter)religion and urban segregation in Surabaya, Indonesia
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: A phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment
Discontent is an important feature of ‘left-behind places’, often reflected by a high percentage of voting for populist parties. Drawing on insights from psychology, we extend previous analyses by focusing on collective embitterment as the central underlying emotional state in a region. Arguing that such negative emotions do not arise ‘out of the blue’, we develop a four-phase model of regional embitterment that accounts for the emotional charact…
Islam Nusantara: The Conceptual Vocabulary of Indonesian Diversity
This article examines recent debates surrounding Islam Nusantara within contemporary Islamic discourses in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, and assesses the concept’s position as both a descriptive category and a normative agenda. Employing a qualitative approach, the study draws on a literature-based inquiry and discourse analysis of academic narratives as well as public statements that have shaped, criticized, and defended the idea of…
Contrasted Revolutions
Spatialities of entrepreneurial ecosystems
The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems has gained tremendous attention in academia across different scientific disciplines. This start-of-the-art contribution addresses the most recent lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem debate from a spatial perspective: measurement of entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial evolution, novel actors, institutions and events, governance as well as gender in entrepreneurial ecosystems. The theoretical …
Democratic Decline in Indonesia: The Role of Religious Authorities
Islam in the Echo Chamber: Ahmadiyya and Shi’a Identities in Indonesian and Malaysian Online Discourses
This article traces the usage of scholarly categories in online public discourses in Indonesia and Malaysia. I make two main arguments: First, digital dissemination and discussion of such categories accelerate and distort the reductions that are part of scholarly work. Second, these reductions in online debates contribute to a homogenization of positions on Islam on the level of actors as well as the level of arguments. Muslim authority on matter…
New Practices of Self-Representation: The Use of Online Media by Ahmadiyya and Shia Communities in Indonesia and Malaysia
Der Band untersucht sozio-kulturellen Wandel in Asien und der arabischen Welt vor dem Hintergrund von Mediatisierungsprozessen. Das Buch basiert auf der Annahme, dass soziale und kulturelle Veränderungen nie exklusiv auf Medien oder technologische Innovationen zurückzuführen sind, sondern deren Effekte für sozialen Wandel von der Zueigenmachung der Medien durch die Menschen in ihrem Alltag abhängen. Der Fokus der Beiträge liegt daher auf der Anei…
Renegotiating Indonesian secularism through debates on Ahmadiyya and Shia
Commentators have mainly viewed the Ahmadiyya debate in Indonesia either as a controversy over heterodoxy or as an episode raising questions about the human rights of ‘religious minorities’. Instead, I suggest viewing these debates as a field of normative questions of secularism in which the claims of religious are renegotiated in response to the fragmentation of religious and political authority brought on by a diversification of the use of medi…
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: A phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment
Discontent is an important feature of ‘left-behind places’, often reflected by a high percentage of voting for populist parties. Drawing on insights from psychology, we extend previous analyses by focusing on collective embitterment as the central underlying emotional state in a region. Arguing that such negative emotions do not arise ‘out of the blue’, we develop a four-phase model of regional embitterment that accounts for the emotional charact…
Democratic Decline in Indonesia: The Role of Religious Authorities
Work futures: Globalization, planetary markets, and uneven developments in the gig economy
The world of work is changing rapidly in myriad ways. The processes of digitization are enabling workers from different parts of the world to compete in a global market over the Internet without moving to different locations. Many employers are opting for hybrid working solutions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, some commentators have suggested the end of globalization, while others are hoping that a fairer society will emerge. Thi…
Political homophobia: The rise of anti-queer rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey
This article comparatively analyses the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey in the 2010s and early 2020s. In both countries, periods of greater public visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the early 2000s were followed by waves of severe anti-LGBT rhetoric, violence, and legal measures. This analysis focusses on the rhetoric that conservative state and non-state actors use to other non-heteronormative people and to exclude them from the n…
Contextualizing the Contextualizers: How the Area Studies Controversy is Different in Different Places
As part of recent years’ efforts at reaching a more context- and diversity-sensitive study of international relations, the nexus between fields of IR and Area Studies (AS) has received a renewed attention. While AS is usually presented as the “contextualizer” of the disciplines, this forum reverses the perspective by suggesting that an awareness of both diversity and context is also relevant when it comes to understanding the evolution of the fie…
Recruiting and integrating international high-skilled migrants – Towards a typology of firms in rural regions in Germany
In rural regions in Germany, significant demographic shifts have raised the question as to whether increased employment of international high-skilled migrants can help to address pressing challenges, i.e., a shortage of labor, a lack of corporate internationalization, and reduced innovation activities. While firms play a key role in this context by actively recruiting migrants and harnessing their skills and competences, little is still known abo…
Who belongs where? Geographies of (inter)religion and urban segregation in Surabaya, Indonesia
Renegotiating Indonesian secularism through debates on Ahmadiyya and Shia
Commentators have mainly viewed the Ahmadiyya debate in Indonesia either as a controversy over heterodoxy or as an episode raising questions about the human rights of ‘religious minorities’. Instead, I suggest viewing these debates as a field of normative questions of secularism in which the claims of religious are renegotiated in response to the fragmentation of religious and political authority brought on by a diversification of the use of medi…
New Practices of Self-Representation: The Use of Online Media by Ahmadiyya and Shia Communities in Indonesia and Malaysia
Der Band untersucht sozio-kulturellen Wandel in Asien und der arabischen Welt vor dem Hintergrund von Mediatisierungsprozessen. Das Buch basiert auf der Annahme, dass soziale und kulturelle Veränderungen nie exklusiv auf Medien oder technologische Innovationen zurückzuführen sind, sondern deren Effekte für sozialen Wandel von der Zueigenmachung der Medien durch die Menschen in ihrem Alltag abhängen. Der Fokus der Beiträge liegt daher auf der Anei…
Renegotiating Indonesian secularism through debates on Ahmadiyya and Shia
Commentators have mainly viewed the Ahmadiyya debate in Indonesia either as a controversy over heterodoxy or as an episode raising questions about the human rights of ‘religious minorities’. Instead, I suggest viewing these debates as a field of normative questions of secularism in which the claims of religious are renegotiated in response to the fragmentation of religious and political authority brought on by a diversification of the use of medi…
Islam in the Echo Chamber: Ahmadiyya and Shi’a Identities in Indonesian and Malaysian Online Discourses
This article traces the usage of scholarly categories in online public discourses in Indonesia and Malaysia. I make two main arguments: First, digital dissemination and discussion of such categories accelerate and distort the reductions that are part of scholarly work. Second, these reductions in online debates contribute to a homogenization of positions on Islam on the level of actors as well as the level of arguments. Muslim authority on matter…
Democratic Decline in Indonesia: The Role of Religious Authorities
Islam Nusantara: The Conceptual Vocabulary of Indonesian Diversity
This article examines recent debates surrounding Islam Nusantara within contemporary Islamic discourses in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, and assesses the concept’s position as both a descriptive category and a normative agenda. Employing a qualitative approach, the study draws on a literature-based inquiry and discourse analysis of academic narratives as well as public statements that have shaped, criticized, and defended the idea of…
Contrasted Revolutions
Spatialities of entrepreneurial ecosystems
The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems has gained tremendous attention in academia across different scientific disciplines. This start-of-the-art contribution addresses the most recent lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem debate from a spatial perspective: measurement of entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial evolution, novel actors, institutions and events, governance as well as gender in entrepreneurial ecosystems. The theoretical …
Work futures: Globalization, planetary markets, and uneven developments in the gig economy
The world of work is changing rapidly in myriad ways. The processes of digitization are enabling workers from different parts of the world to compete in a global market over the Internet without moving to different locations. Many employers are opting for hybrid working solutions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, some commentators have suggested the end of globalization, while others are hoping that a fairer society will emerge. Thi…
Contextualizing the Contextualizers: How the Area Studies Controversy is Different in Different Places
As part of recent years’ efforts at reaching a more context- and diversity-sensitive study of international relations, the nexus between fields of IR and Area Studies (AS) has received a renewed attention. While AS is usually presented as the “contextualizer” of the disciplines, this forum reverses the perspective by suggesting that an awareness of both diversity and context is also relevant when it comes to understanding the evolution of the fie…
Recruiting and integrating international high-skilled migrants – Towards a typology of firms in rural regions in Germany
In rural regions in Germany, significant demographic shifts have raised the question as to whether increased employment of international high-skilled migrants can help to address pressing challenges, i.e., a shortage of labor, a lack of corporate internationalization, and reduced innovation activities. While firms play a key role in this context by actively recruiting migrants and harnessing their skills and competences, little is still known abo…
Who belongs where? Geographies of (inter)religion and urban segregation in Surabaya, Indonesia
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: A phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment
Discontent is an important feature of ‘left-behind places’, often reflected by a high percentage of voting for populist parties. Drawing on insights from psychology, we extend previous analyses by focusing on collective embitterment as the central underlying emotional state in a region. Arguing that such negative emotions do not arise ‘out of the blue’, we develop a four-phase model of regional embitterment that accounts for the emotional charact…
Political homophobia: The rise of anti-queer rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey
This article comparatively analyses the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey in the 2010s and early 2020s. In both countries, periods of greater public visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the early 2000s were followed by waves of severe anti-LGBT rhetoric, violence, and legal measures. This analysis focusses on the rhetoric that conservative state and non-state actors use to other non-heteronormative people and to exclude them from the n…
Entrepreneurial ecosystem as a spatially fluid concept: New territorial perspectives on entrepreneurship
Living together beyond liberal democracy: Examples of local decision-making and managing resource extractivism in Indonesia
This article combines literature and insights from three different fields: comparative political thought, comparative politics, and area studies. It highlights critical gaps in empirical democracy studies and advocates for more encompassing notions of democracy and deeper integration with post-development, ecofeminist, and democratic economic planning perspectives. Indonesia's post-reform electoral democracy has facilitated elite-driven resource …
Potentials and limitations of podcasts as an assessment format for teacher students – a comparative case study from human geography
Podcasts become more and more popular in university teaching and learning. However, there is a lack of systematic understanding of how podcasts used as assessment format impact students’ competence gains compared to conventional written assignments. This study explores the potentials and limitations of using podcasts as an assessment format for education students. A human geography study project for teacher students at a German university serves …
Green Industries Without Institutional Support—The Case of the Danish Wine Industry
Green regional industries are increasingly recognised as pivotal in addressing diverse environmental crises. While the role of institutions in fostering green industries is well‐established, limited research exists on the dynamics of green industry creation without institutional support. Employing a mixed‐method approach, we investigate the case of the Danish wine industry to analyse the relationships and conditions facilitating the greener wine …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Asian Studies and History (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Islamic Studies and Radicalism (4 works)