Prof. Dr. Franziska Martinsen

Director of Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen

Associated Professorship

Political Theory

Vita

Prof. Dr. Franziska Martinsen is Professor of Political Theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and Chair of the Board of the interdisciplinary Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the UDE.

She studied philosophy, music, and political science at HU Berlin (including parental leave). She then worked as a freelancer in the music and culture industry in Switzerland, Canada, and Germany. In 2003, she moved to the University of Basel (Switzerland) as a research assistant, where she received her doctorate in philosophy in 2009 with a thesis on global justice. She was also a lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Basel and was part of a project on European policy issues at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Before being appointed to the UDE, Franziska Martinsen was a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover from 2007 to 2017 and then a visiting and deputy professor at the universities of Greifswald, Kiel, Bremen, and Vienna, among others, as well as a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” (Law as Culture) in Bonn.

Franziska Martinsen conducts research on theories of democracy in light of the transformation processes of democracy in post-migrant societies and normative questions of citizenship, particularly on approaches to radical democratic theory, political theory gender studies, and the political history of feminist ideas. She is currently writing a textbook on political theory in which feminist-intersectional, postcolonial, and anti-racist theories are not marginalized but given their due importance. Together with colleagues, she edits the Living Handbook “Politics and Gender” published by Barbara Budrich. 

Focus of Work

• International Political Philosophy: Theories of (global) justice; Theories of
global transformation processes and reparations; Human rights
theories
• History of Political Ideas: historical and contemporary Theories of
democracy; theories of the subject
• Feminist political philosophy: critical reflection on conceptions of gender
order
• Postcolonial and intersectional political theory: critical reflection on
conceptions of the demos, political participation, and identity

Publications (selection)

Monographien (Auswahl)

2019: Grenzen der Menschenrechte. Staatsbürgerschaft, Zugehörigkeit, Partizipation, Bielefeld: Transcript. Open access: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4740-2/grenzen-der-menschenrechte/

2014: Politische Philosophie der Besonderheit. Normative Perspektiven in pluralistischen Gesellschaften, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus (zus. m. O. Flügel-Martinsen).

2014: Recht auf Wiedergutmachung. Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und die Bewältigung historischen Unrechts, Opladen: Budrich (zus. m. T. Hitzel-Cassagnes).

Herausgaben (Auswahl)

2024: Handbuch Politik und Geschlecht (zus. m. C. M. Klapeer, J. Leinius, H. Mauer, I. Nüthen).
OAPEnz Living Handbook, Open Access: https://budrich.publisso.de/en/publisso_gold/publishing/books/overview/6

2024: Politik und Geschlecht. Perspektiven der politikwissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung, Opladen: Budrich (zus. m. C. M. Klapeer, J. Leinius, H. Mauer, I. Nüthen).

2024: Ökonomie als Gesellschaftstheorie, Baden-Baden, erster Band der neu gegründeten Reihe „kontrovers. Reihe für interdisziplinäre Gesellschaftstheorie zu Politik, Ökonomie und Recht“, (zus. m. J. Bung, H. Meißner, G. Olson, C. Schmidt, B. Zabel).

2022: Anfangen! Politik im Anthropozän, Weilerswist: Velbrück.

2021: Fragil – stabil? Dynamiken der Demokratie. Die 23. HANNAH ARENDT TAGE 2020. Mit Beiträgen zur aktuellen Rassismus-Debatte bei Arendt, Weilerswist: Velbrück.

2021: Das Politische (in) der Politischen Theorie, Baden-Baden: Nomos (zus. m. O. Flügel-Martinsen, M. Saar).

2020: Radikale Demokratietheorie. Ein Handbuch, 2. Aufl, Berlin: Suhrkamp (zus. m. D. Comtesse, O. Flügel-Martinsen, M. Nonhoff).

2019: Pierre Rosanvallon’s Political Thought, Bielefeld: Transcript (zus. m. O. Flügel-Martinsen, S. W. Sawyer, D. Schulz). Open access: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4652-8/pierre-rosanvallon-s-political-thought/

Websitelink to my Publications

Keywords

Feminist-intersectional perspectives on human rights, feminist-intersectional perspectives on democracy, democracy under threat

Casegroup

Social Sciences