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.

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Publications

Scientific publications
  • Gümplová, Petra (2023a): “Common Ownership or Global Commons? Reassessing Risse’s Common Ownership of the Earth Thesis in Light of Climate Crisis“, In: Sťahel, R.; Dědečková, E. (eds.), Current Challenges of Environmental Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 71-96.
  • Gümplová, Petra (2022): “Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas“, In: Contemp Polit Theory (2022). DOI: 10.1057/s41296-022-00596-z
  • Gümplová, Petra (2021a): “Normative View of Natural Resources – Global Redistribution or Human Rights-based Approach?“, In: Human Rights Review 22, 155-172. DOI: 10.1007/s12142-021-00615-3.
  • Gümplová, Petra (2021b): “Rights of Conquest, Discovery and Occupation, and the Freedom of the Seas: the Colonial Invention of International Law and Natural Resource Injustice Isonomía.“, In: 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 (2021c): “Sovereign Territory and the Domination over Nature“, In: Bueno, A.; Henning, C.; Rosa, H. (eds.): Critical Theory and New Materialism, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Gümplová, Petra (2019a): “Sovereignty over Natural Resources – A Normative Reinterpretation“, In: Global Constitutionalism Global Constitutionalism 9(1), S. 7-37. DOI: 10.1017/S2045381719000224
  • Gümplová, Petra (2019b): “Yasuní-ITT Initiative and the Reinventing Sovereignty over Natural Resources“, In: Filozofia 74(5), S. 378-393. Open Access: https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/05221313filozofia.2019.74.5.3.pdf
  • Gümplová, Petra (2018): “Popular Sovereignty over Natural Resources – An Appraisal of Leif Wenar’s Blood Oil from the Perspective of International Law and Justice“, In: Global Constitutionalism 7(2), S. 173-203.
  • Gümplová, Petra (2017): “Rights to Natural Resources and Human Rights“, In: Oksanen, M.; Dodsworth, A.; and O’Doherty, S. (eds.): Environmental Human Rights. A Political Theory Perspective, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Gümplová, Petra (2015): “Sovereignty and Post-sovereignty“, In: Philosophica Critica 1(2), S. 3-18.
  • Gümplová, Petra (2014): “Rethinking Resistance with Václav Havel“, In: Constellations – An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 21 (3): 401-414.
  • Gümplová, Petra (2011): Sovereignty and Constitutional Democracy, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
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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)

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