Dr J. (Jessica) Soedirgo
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
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Postbus 15578
1001 NB Amsterdam
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Profile
Jessica Soedirgo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam where she is a member of the Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance research group. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Studies, Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Toronto.
Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of anti-minority violence and repression. Her research agenda is motivated by two related questions: 1) Why and how do minorities become victims of violence and repression?; and 2) How do minorities respond to violence and repression and why do they respond the ways they do? Empirically, I look at ethnic and religious minorities in Indonesia. She also writes on qualitative methodology, particularly with regards to fieldwork.
Her work has been published in Citizenship Studies, Southeast Asia Research, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, and PS: Political Science and Politics and has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Ontario Government, and others.
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Research
Research methods
- Qualitative methods
- Fieldwork
- Interviewing
- Archival research
Research grants & honours
- Veni (2024) - Resisting Assimilation: Minority Responses to Coercive Nation Building in Postcolonial Indonesia
- Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award in Religion and Politics (2022), American Political Science Association
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Teaching
BA
- Violence and Security: Paradigms and Debates
- Southeast Asian Politics
MA
- Political Violence
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Publications
2024
- Soedirgo, J. (2024). Civic Associations in Maluku, Indonesia: Explaining the Failure of the South Maluku Republic Movement. In A. H. Liu, & J. S. Selway (Eds.), State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands: Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia (pp. 175-190). (Emerging Democracies). University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12333333 [details]
2021
- Soedirgo, J. (2021). Quotidian institutions and identity formation: Explaining patterns of identity salience in Maluku, Indonesia. Asian politics & policy, 13(1), 56-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12568
2020
- Soedirgo, J., & Glas, A. (2020). Toward Active Reflexivity: Positionality and Practice in the Production of Knowledge. PS, Political Science & Politics, 53(3), 527-531. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519002233
2018
- Soedirgo, J. (2018). Informal networks and religious intolerance: how clientelism incentivizes the discrimination of the Ahmadiyah in Indonesia. Citizenship Studies, 22(2), 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2018.1445490
2017
- Pelletier, A., & Soedirgo, J. (2017). The de-escalation of violence and the political economy of peace-mongering: Evidence from Maluku, Indonesia. South East Asia Research, 25(4), 325-341. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967828X17739495
2024
- Soedirgo, J., & Glas, A. (2024). Reflexive Methodologies and Methods. In Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Vol. 1). Oxford Handbooks. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192868282.013.6
Prize / grant
- Soedirgo, J. (2024). Veni. https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/nwo-talent-programme/projects-veni/veni-2023
- Soedirgo, J. (2022). Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award. https://connect.apsanet.org/s11/2022-apsa-religion-politics-award-winners/
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