{"id":13840,"date":"2025-01-24T19:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=13840"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:14:09","slug":"jasina-schaefer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/en\/jasina-schaefer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alina Ja\u0161ina-Sch\u00e4fer"},"content":{"rendered":"<jgu-base-section react-props=\"{&quot;color&quot;:&quot;dark&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;padding&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"jgu-bgsection bg bg-dark\"><div class=\"content padding-medium\"><jgu-base-heading react-props=\"{\n    &quot;index&quot;: &quot;Academic Staff Member (on parental leave)&quot;,\n    &quot;color&quot;: &quot;default&quot;,\n    &quot;tags&quot;: {\n        &quot;htmlTag&quot;: &quot;h2&quot;,\n        &quot;classTag&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;tag&quot;: &quot;h2&quot;\n    },\n    &quot;heading&quot;: &quot;Dr. Alina Ja\\u0161ina-Sch\\u00e4fer&quot;,\n    &quot;textAlign&quot;: &quot;left&quot;,\n    &quot;anchor&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n}\"><\/jgu-base-heading>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><jgu-base-image react-props=\"{\n    &quot;image&quot;: {\n        &quot;url&quot;: &quot;https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/Alina-16-scaled-1.jpg&quot;,\n        &quot;id&quot;: 9633,\n        &quot;title&quot;: &quot;Alina-16-scaled&quot;,\n        &quot;width&quot;: 1707,\n        &quot;height&quot;: 2560,\n        &quot;srcset&quot;: &quot;https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/Alina-16-scaled-1.jpg 1707w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/Alina-16-scaled-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/Alina-16-scaled-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/Alina-16-scaled-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/Alina-16-scaled-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/Alina-16-scaled-1-1366x2048.jpg 1366w&quot;\n    },\n    &quot;align&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n    &quot;hasLightbox&quot;: false,\n    &quot;caption&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n    &quot;imgWidth&quot;: 0,\n    &quot;link&quot;: {\n        &quot;url&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;target&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;rel&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n    }\n}\" class=\"align-\">\n    \n<\/jgu-base-image><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><jgu-base-collapsiblearea class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-jgu-collapsible-area-is-layout-flow\" react-props=\"{&quot;visibleLines&quot;:5,&quot;collapse&quot;:&quot;always&quot;,&quot;collapsedHeight&quot;:150,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Biography&lt;\\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n\\n\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;Alina Ja\\u0161ina-Sch\\u00e4fer is lecturer and researcher in Cultural Studies\\\/European Ethnology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She studied Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow and International Relations at Central European University in Budapest and received her doctoral degree in Cultural Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen. In her doctoral dissertation, she researched lived citizenship and belonging among Russian-speaking people in the border regions of Estonia and Kazakhstan. This work resulted in her first monograph Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands, in which she examined how people&#039;s everyday practices contribute to challenging and negotiating the normative boundaries of national belonging in post-Soviet contexts. From 2020 to 2023, Alina worked as a research associate at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Eastern Europe (BKGE) in Oldenburg, where she was part of the interdisciplinary project \\&quot;Ambivalences of the Soviet\\&quot;.    &lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n\\n\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;Since April 2023, Alina has been working on a new research project that deals with changing value systems and notions of self-worth in the context of migration and unequal European belonging. It focuses on the experiences of people from the former Soviet Union in the German job market. Her research examines how notions of value and legitimacy are negotiated in everyday encounters with institutional norms, gender-specific expectations, and racialized hierarchies.  &lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n\\n\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;In a broader sense, Alina&#039;s ethnographic research addresses questions of affect, marginality, and relational agency in Europe from a decentered perspective rooted in the post-Soviet \\&quot;peripheries\\&quot;. She is particularly interested in how people claim belonging within ambivalent and often exclusionary political orders. &lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n\\n&quot;,&quot;className&quot;:&quot;alignwide &quot;}\"><\/jgu-base-collapsiblearea>\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/573\/2025\/07\/CV-AJS.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"11463\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/573\/2025\/07\/Publikationen-AJS.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"11466\">Publications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<jgu-base-accordion react-props=\"{&quot;selected&quot;:3,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;hasAllOpenButton&quot;:true,&quot;onlyOne&quot;:false,&quot;initAllClosed&quot;:true,&quot;enableSearch&quot;:false}\">\n    \n<jgu-base-accordionitem react-props=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Research Focus Areas&quot;,&quot;init&quot;:false,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;research-focus-areas&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;customSlug&quot;:false}\">\n    \n\n<ul class=\"has-big-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Migration and belongings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work cultures, economic values, social relationships<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gender and family life<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Socialism and post-socialist transformations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knowledge production and decolonization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n<jgu-base-accordionitem react-props=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Contact&quot;,&quot;init&quot;:false,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;contact&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;customSlug&quot;:false}\">\n    \n\n<p>Jakob-Welder-Weg 20<br>55128 Mainz<br>Philosophicum II (New Building), 2nd floor<br>Room 02.309<br><br>Phone: +49 6131 39-29823<br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:ajasinas@uni-mainz.de\">ajasinas@uni-mainz.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Office hours<br><\/strong>by appointment via <a href=\"mailto:ajasinas@uni-mainz.de\">email<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Ja\u0161ina-Sch\u00e4fer is a <a href=\"https:\/\/ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/#vertrauenspersonen\">designated representative<\/a> for disabled, neurodivergent, and chronically ill students, as well as BIPOC, FLINTA*, and LGBTQIA+ students at the Institute for Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n<jgu-base-accordionitem react-props=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Current Teaching&quot;,&quot;init&quot;:false,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;current-teaching&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;customSlug&quot;:false}\">\n    \n\tNo courses found for given input data and semester (SoSe 2026)<hr>\n<p>\n\tSoSe 2026\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordion>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/jgu-base-section>    <div style=\"display: none\">\n        \n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13840","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"content_raw":"<!-- wp:jgu\/section {\"color\": \"dark\"} -->\n<div class=\"jgu-bgsection bg bg-dark\"><div class=\"content padding-medium\"><!-- wp:jgu\/heading {\"index\":\"Academic Staff Member (on parental leave)\",\"color\":\"default\",\"tags\":{\"htmlTag\":\"h2\",\"classTag\":\"\",\"tag\":\"h2\"},\"heading\":\"Dr. Alina Ja\u0161ina-Sch\u00e4fer\"} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"width\":\"33.33%\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><!-- wp:jgu\/image {\"image\":{\"url\":null,\"id\":9633}} \/--><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column {\"width\":\"66.66%\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><!-- wp:jgu\/collapsible-area -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Alina Ja\u0161ina-Sch\u00e4fer is lecturer and researcher in Cultural Studies\/European Ethnology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. 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