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Franziska Martinsen

Prof. Dr. Franziska Martinsen

Professor of Political Theory

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Prof. Dr. Franziska Martinsen


Fak. f. Ges. Wi./Inst. f. Pol. Wiss./Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt "Politische Theorie"

Address
Forsthausweg 2
47057 Duisburg
Room
LF 313
Phone
0203-379-2282
E-Mail
franziska.martinsen@uni-due.de

Functions

News

​​ Just out! To the flyer

 https://www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/oekonomie-als-gesellschaftstheorie-gr-978-3-495-99786-4
 (Print edition and open access)

​Politik Und Geschlecht CoverHandbuch Politik und Geschlecht is online!

Here are two interviews with the editors:
https://www.gender-blog.de/beitrag/living-handbook-politik-und-geschlecht/
https://budrich.de/news/living-handbook-interview/

The hardcover version has also been published: Politik und Geschlecht (Hardcover)

On 28 January 2024, I was a guest at the Streitraum with Carolin Emcke, Schaubühne Berlin, and gave a lecture on "Violence and its justifications" (in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu51tl42WRE

From March 15-17, 2023, the DVPW Section Conference "Kämpfe um Diversität. Theorie an den Grenzen von Wissenschaft und Politik“ - „Struggles for Diversity. Theory at the Boundary of Science and Politics" took place at the Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, and was co-organised by Franziska Martinsen (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Peter Niesen (Universität Hamburg), Karsten Schubert (HU Berlin), Frieder Vogelmann (Universität Freiburg) und Sabrina Zucca-Soest (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg).
The program (in German) is available here

Academic Career

Franziska Martinsen is Professor of Political Theory and currently Director at Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation, inter-faculty research centre of the University of Duisburg-Essen.

She studied philosophy, musicology and political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin and obtained 2009 her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Basel (Switzerland). She completed her habilitation in political science at Leibniz University Hannover (2016). From 2003 to 2017, she worked as a research assistant at the Universities of Basel (Switzerland), Fribourg (Switzerland) and as a post doc at the Leibniz University Hannover. Since 2017, she has held visiting and deputy professorships at the universities of Greifswald, Kiel, Vienna, Berlin and Bremen and was a fellow at the Käte Hamburg Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities Bonn ‘Law as Culture’ (2019/2020). From 2020-2022, she was a deputy professor of Political Theory at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Her research focuses on political theory and the history of ideas as well as gender studies in political theory, in particular feminist, intersectional and postcolonial theories, theories of democracy and human rights and theories of justice. She has published on a wide range of topics relating to radical democratic theory, the critical expansion of human rights thinking, feminist political theory and gender studies in political science.

Member of the board

  • 10/2024-present: Director of the Institute of Political Science, University Duisburg-Essen
  • 02/2024-present: Director of the Managing Board, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Inter-faculty research centre of the University of Duisburg-Essen
  •  04/2023-present: Member of the Board of Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Center for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 2023-present: Member of the Board of anDemos e.V, Institute for Democracy and Social Research, Dresden
  • 2018-2024: Member of the Board of Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) (German Political Science Association, GPSA)
  • 2017-2024: Member of the Board of the GPSA Section Political Theory and History of Ideas
  • 2017-2021: Member of the Board of the GPSA Section Politics and Gender

Further board memberships

  • 2021-present: Co-editor „Living Handbook Politik und Geschlecht“ Barbara Budrich press (with C. M. Klapeer, J. Leiniuis, H. Mauer, I. Nüthen)
  • 2021-present: Co-editor of a book series „kontrovers. Reihe für interdisziplinäre Gesellschaftstheorie zu Politik, Ökonomie und Recht“, Alber Press (with J. Bung, H. Meißner, Greta Olson, C. Schmidt, B. Zabel)
  • 2016-present: Member of the Advisory Board of „Coils of the Serpent. Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power“
  • 2012-present: Founding member of the board of Leibniz Stiftung Hannover
  • 2011-present: Co-Curator of Hannah-Arendt-Tage Hannover

Doctoral candidates

► Link to the candidates

Teaching

► Political Theory and History of Ideas
► International Political Theory
► Democratic Theory
► Human Rights Theory
► Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Social Philosophy
► Feminist Political Theory and Gender Theory
► Postcolonial Theory
► Critical Theory
► Concepts of the Political
► Theories of Normativity
► Philosophy of Science

Research Areas

  • International Political Theory
  • History of Ideas
  • Democratic Theory
  • Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Social Philosophy
  • Theories of Law
  • Gender Theory
  • Feminist Political Theory
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Critical Theory
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Theories of Violence
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Ethics

Areas of Expertise

  • Contemporary Democratic Theory
  • Agonistic and Radical Democratic Theory
  • Feminist, Intersectional and Postcolonial Critique
  • Theories of Political Subjectivation
  • Contemporary Human Rights Theories
  • History of Human Rights
  • Theories of Global Justice and Transitional Justice
  • Theories of Gender Justice
  • International Criminal Justice Theory

Publications