PD Dr. Petra Gümplová

Member of the Equal Opportunities Board

Petra Gümplová received her PhD from the New School for Social Research, New York in 2010. She has worked at Charles University, Prague, and at the Universities of Giessen and Erfurt. Her research fields include modern and international political theory and global justice with substantive focus on natural resources and human rights. In April 2021, she obtained a Habilitation at Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt with a work entitled Rights to Natural Resources and Justice. On this topic and others, Petra Gümplová has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Email: petra.guemplova@uni-jena.de

Activities

Events

Panel “Global Commons and Their Discontents“, at the congress Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty DVPW Conference. (27.–29.09.2023)

Publications

“Common Ownership or Global Commons? Reassessing Risse’s Common Ownership of the Earth Thesis in Light of Climate Crisis,” In: Richard Sťahel, Eva Dědečková (Eds.), Current Challenges of Environmental Philosophy. Leiden: Brill. (2022)
“Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas”, book review. (13.11.2022)
“Russia’s Blood Fossil Fuels”, contribution in Ethics & International Affairs. (23.06.2022)
“Contesting the Unity of Constitutional Orders from a Property Perspective”, Post from the SFB blog. (15.02.2022)

Lectures/ Pocasts

“Governing global commons for global public good”, Lecture at the conference “Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy“ (15.-16.06.23)
public panel discussion on the Commons at the Festival of Philosophy, Velke Mezirici, Czech Republic. (06.06.2023)
“Sovereign Rights to Ocean's Resources - a Critical Appraisal”, Lecture at the conference Philosophy and Social Sciences, Prag. (10.-14.05.2023)
Video Podcast of the Faculty of Law, Charles University Prague (in Czech). (03.02.2023)
“Common Ownership of the Earth in theAnthropocene”, Lecture at the international conference "Challenges for Environmental and Political Philosophy in the Anthropocene". (16.01.2023)
“Moral Theories and Blood Commodities”, Lecture at the conference "Ethical Theories, Unethical Practices Conference of the Slovak Philosophical Society". (19.-21.10.2022)
“Politisch(es) Denken im Anthropozän: Herausforderungen und aktuelle Positionen.“ Panel discussion as part of C2PO Colloquium University of Erfurt. (05.07.2022)

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Publications

Gümplová, Petra (2011). Sovereignty and Constitutional Democracy. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
Gümplová, Petra (2014). “Rethinking Resistance with Václav Havel,” Constellations – An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 21 (3): 401-414.
Gümplová, Petra (2018). “Popular Sovereignty over Natural Resources,” Global Constitutionalism 7 (2): 173-203.
Gümplová, Petra (2019). “Yasuní-ITT Initiative and the Reinventing Sovereignty over Natural Resources,” Filozofia 74 (5): 378-393. Open Access: https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/05221313filozofia.2019.74.5.3.pdf
Gümplová, Petra (2020). “Sovereign Rights to Natural Resources – A Normative Reinterpretation,” Global Constitutionalism 9 (1): 7-37. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045381719000224
Gümplová, Petra (2021). “Normative View of Natural Resources – Global Redistribution or Human Rights-based Approach?” Human Rights Review. Open Access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12142-021-00615-3
Gümplová, Petra (2021). “Rights of Conquest, Discovery and Occupation, and the Freedom of the Seas: the Colonial Invention of International Law and Natural Resource Injustice.” Isonomía. Revista de Teoría y Filosofía del Derecho 54: 1-36. Open Access: https://isonomia.itam.mx/index.php/revista-cientifica/article/view/417/1563
Gümplová, Petra (2022). "Russia's Blood Fossil Fuels," Ethics & International Affairs online, June 24, 2022.: https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2022/russias-blood-fossil-fuels/

Teaching

The Tragedy of Global Commons (Universität Erfurt)
Human Rights and Conflicts over Natural Resources (Universität Erfurt)
Sovereign States in a Global World (Universität Erfurt)
Natural Resources and Global Justice (Universität Erfurt und Universität Gießen)
Concepts of Sovereignty (Universität Gießen)
Foundations of Modern Political Order (Universität Gießen)
Freedom (Universität Gießen)

Subprojects

JRT01 The Transformation of global commons and the future of planetary ecosystems.

Principal Investigator