Postdoctoral Researcher
Contact: wikke.jansen@fau.de
Short Bio
Wikke Jansen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights.” Her research examines the human rights challenges associated with the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into academic systems of knowledge production poses, as well as potential approaches to addressing them. Before joining the Cluster, she held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, as well as a visiting fellowship with the Berlin University Alliance project “Beyond Social Cohesion: Global Repertoires of Living Together (RePLITO).” She received her Ph.D. in Global Studies from the Humboldt University of Berlin in collaboration with the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. Her ethnographic research on changing solidarities in the face of globalization and digitalization among queer Indonesian communities resulted in the monograph Queer Mobilities in Indonesia: Religion, Activism, and Everyday Life (Liverpool University Press, 2025). Her broader research interests include the social and ethical dimensions of digitalization and social media, global solidarity, collaborative and digital anthropology, gender and sexuality, heritage, and research ethics, with a regional focus on both Southeast Asia and Western Europe.
The project investigates the transformation of human rights in the light of “gradual disempowerment,” or the increasing erosion of human agency due to the widespread integration of AI, through an exploration of human–AI interactions in the German university context. Focusing on university students and staff as key players in the nexus of AI and knowledge and cultural production, it aims to identify practices, infrastructures, and policies that either exacerbate or alleviate risks to human rights stemming from gradual disempowerment.
- Jansen, Wikke. Queer Mobilities in Indonesia: Religion, Activism and Everyday Life. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09596410.2026.2621617
- Jansen, Wikke. “Engagement and Ethics for Digital Ethnography: Reflections from (Online) Indonesia in Times of COVID-19.” International Quarterly for Asian Studies 55, no. 4 (2024): 513–535. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2024.4.24576
- Jansen, Wikke. “Living on the Line: Gendered Invisibilities among Indonesian Queer Women and Transmen.” Asian Studies Review 47, no. 2 (2023): 300–317. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2022.2090502
- Jansen, Wikke, Kai Mata, Hamzah Faraz Karamat, and Chandrika Yogarajah. “Pride and the Politics of Activism in South and Southeast Asia: A Transdisciplinary Conversation.” Gender and Development 32, no. 1 (2024): 379–394. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13552074.2024.2379154
- Jansen, Wikke. “Extending an Indonesian Umbrella: A Case Study of Queer (Trans)National Solidarity by @kamusqueer.” In Special Article Collection: Imaginations, Narratives and Mediated Performances of Solidarity and Community, edited by Nadja-Christina Schneider and Maitrayee Chaudhuri. RePLITO (2021). https://doi.org/10.21428/f4c6e600.2a0fb37\