Publications

Schäfer, S., Syam, M., & Gogali, L. (2025). Living together beyond liberal democracy: Examples of local decision-making and managing resource extractivism in Indonesia. Frontiers in Political Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2025.1370828

Syam, M. (2024). Democracy in flux: Political alliances and the role of religion in Indonesia and Turkey. Muslim Politics Review, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.56529/mpr.v3i2.308

Syam, M., & Paputungan-Engelhardt, D. (2024). Navigating the disrupted field: Researching education in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 55(4). https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2024.4.24575

Schäfer, S. (2024). Political homophobia: The rise of anti-queer rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(2). https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22050.sch

Busse, J., Valbjørn, M., Doolotkeldieva, A., Ortmann, S., Smith, K., Shami, S., Costa, S., Weipert-Fenner, I., Wolff, J., Schäfer, S., & Osterberg-Kaufmann, N. (2024). Contextualizing the contextualizers: How the area studies controversy is different in different places. International Studies Review, 26(1), viad056. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viad056

Mulya, T. W., & Schäfer, S. (2023). Who belongs where? Geographies of (inter)religion and urban segregation in Surabaya, Indonesia. Cities, 141, 104476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104476

Schäfer, S. (2021). Islam Nusantara: The conceptual vocabulary of Indonesian diversity. ISLAM NUSANTARA: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture, 2(2), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.47776/islamnusantara.v3i1.163

Schäfer, S. (2021). Contrasted revolutions. Review of Republicanism, Communism, Islam by John Sidel. New Left Review, 129, 125–134. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii129/articles/saskia-schafer-contrasted-revolutions

Schäfer, S. (2020). Breeding roses and chasing unicorns: Reflections from Europe on the changing field of Southeast Asian area studies. International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 51(3-4), 31–48. https://crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/iqas/article/view/13613

Schäfer, S. (2019). Democratic decline in Indonesia: The role of religious authorities. Pacific Affairs, 92(2), 235–255. https://doi.org/10.5509/2019922235

Schäfer, S. (2018). Ahmadis or Indonesians? The polarization of post-reform public debates on Islam and orthodoxy. Critical Asian Studies, 50(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2017.1404925

Schäfer, S. (2018). Islam in the echo chamber: Homogenisation and polarisation in Indonesia and Malaysia. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 5(1-2), 124–158.

Results of the BUA-funded project “Democracy and Interfaith Initiatives: Civic Education, Democracy, and Religion” (2020-2021).