Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M., & Kastrinou, M. (2025). Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Advance online publication. [DOI]
2024
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2024). Taming Voices, Expressing the Self: Kurdish Women and the Voicing of Pain . In S. Mojab (Ed.), Kurdish Women Through History, Culture and Resistance (pp. 123-147). Mazda Publishers.
2023
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2023). Ramazan Aras, The Wall: The Making and Unmaking of the Turkish-Syrian Border, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xiii + 247 pages, isbn: 978-3-030-45653-5. Kurdish Studies Journal, 1(1-2), 336-341. [DOI] [Repository]
van Bruinessen, M., Schäfers, M., & Alsancakli, S. (2023). Editorial. Kurdish Studies Journal, 1(1-2), 3-6. [DOI] [Repository]
Schäfers, M. (2023). Projecting a Body Politic: Photographs, Time, and Immortality in the Kurdish Movement. Anthropological Quarterly, 96(2), 307-333. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2022). Harabe Olmuş Gelecekler: Deprem Sonrası Van’da İstikrarsızlıkla Başa Çıkmak. In Mekânda Adalet ve Deprem (pp. 24-29) [Repository]
Schäfers, M. (2022). Establishing a journal, shaping a field: An interview with Dr Welat Zeydanlıoğlu. Kurdish Studies, 10(1), 55-61. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1042044
Schäfers, M. (2022). Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey. The University of Chicago Press.
Schäfers, M. (2022). Rottmann, , , Susan Beth. In pursuit of belonging: forging an ethical life in European-Turkish spaces. xii, 203 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. £99.00 (cloth). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(3), 1062-1063. [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2021). Feminism, gender and power in Kurdish Studies: An interview with Prof. Shahrzad Mojab. Kurdish Studies, 9(1), 97-111. [DOI]
Schäfers, M. (2021). Comment on "Spaced-Out States: Decolonizing Trauma in a War-Torn Middle Eastern City" by Umut Yıldırım. Current Anthropology.
Schäfers, M. (2021). Political Violence and the Kurdish Conflict: A Review. Kurdish Studies, 9(1), 129-135. [DOI]
2020
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2020). Afterlives: Introduction. AllegraLab. https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-introduction/
Schäfers, M., & Düzel, E. (2020). Introduction: Between Loyalty and Critique: Gender, Morality, Militancy. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 40(1), 115-118. [DOI]
Schäfers, M. (2020). Walking a Fine Line: Loyalty, Betrayal and the Moral and Gendered Bargains of Resistance. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 40(1), 119-132. [DOI]
2019
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2019). Nirxandin: The Sung Home: Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation, Wendelmoet Hamelink. Derwaze, 3.
Schäfers, M. (2019). Tracing Connections: Kurdish Women Singers and the Ambiguities of Owning Oral Tradition. In M. Greve, W. Hamelink, & U. Özdemir (Eds.), Diversity and Contact Among Singer-Poet Traditions in Eastern Anatolia (pp. 77-93). Ergon.
Schäfers, M. (2019). Archived Voices, Acoustic Traces and the Reverberations of Kurdish History in Modern Turkey. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 61(2), 447-473. [DOI]
2018
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2018). Troubled Terrain: Lines of Allegiance and Political Belonging in Northern Kurdistan. In B. Baser, B. Zorlu, & Y. Duman (Eds.), Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field (pp. 69-83). Lexington Books.
Schäfers, M. (2018). "It Used to Be Forbidden": Kurdish Women and the Limits of Gaining Voice. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 14(1), 3-24. [DOI] [Repository]
2017
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2017). Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World by Kath Weston. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26877576
Schäfers, M. (2017). Power, Sect and State in Syria by A. Maria A. Kastrinou. Jadaliyya. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26074/power-sect-and-state-in-syria
Schäfers, M. (2017). Writing Against Loss: Kurdish Women, Subaltern Authorship, and the Politics of Voice in Contemporary Turkey. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(3), 543-561. [DOI]
Popularising publications
Schäfers, M., & Neven, B. (2017). Jineology: From Women’s Struggle to Social Liberation. Roar Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/jineology-kurdish-women-movement/
2016
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2016). Ruined Futures: Managing Instability in Post-Earthquake Van (Turkey). Social Anthropology, 24(2), 228-242. [DOI]
Popularising publications
Schäfers, M. (2016). Utançtan Kamusal Sese: Kadın Dengbêjler, Acının İşlenişi, ve Kürt Tarihi. Kürt Tarihi, 26, 24*29.
2015
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2015). Being Sick of Politics: The Production of Dengbêjî as Kurdish Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Turkey. European Journal of Turkish Studies, 20. [DOI]
2014
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2014). 2011 Van Depremi: Bir mücadele alanı olarak ‘yardım’. In E. Çelebi, D. Havlioğlu, & E. Kayaalp (Eds.), Sınır Bilgisi: Siyasal İktidar, Toplumsal Mekan ve Kadına Yönelik Şiddet Ayizi.
2013
Scholarly publications
Schäfers, M. (2013). Improbable Encounters: Marching for Lice in Kadıköy. society for cultural anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/improbable-encounters-marching-for-lice-in-kadıköy