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Dr. Lukas Sparenborg

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Research Associate
Goethe University Frankfurt
Faculty of Social Sciences
Institute of Political Science


Visitors
House "Normative Ordnungen"
Max-Horkheimer-Straße 2, Raum 3.15
Map of the Campus Westend

E-Mail: sparenborg@normativeorders.net
Telefon: +49 (0)69 / 798 - 31525
Office hours: Tuesday 4 to 5:30 (appointments can be scheduled here.)

Research Focus

In my research I focus on theories of structural injustice and responsibility, especially based on the work of Iris Marion Young, as well as on the fields of climate and intergenerational justice. In my dissertation I try to make both debates fruitful for each other by understanding the climate crisis as a structural injustice that requires the structural transformation of fossil energy production. In light of this, I am concerned with the differentiated responsibilities of individual and institutional actors. To consider the idea of structural transformation, another research focus is on feminist as well as critical (as well as feminist critical) theory. Furthermore, I am interested in the theoretical connections between (climate) activism or activist practice and conceptions of hope and trust or mistrust.

Vita

Activities

seit 03/2022                Research Associate at the Chair for International Political Theory and Philosophy 
                                
04/2019 - 02/2022      Doctoral Scholar of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Education

2019 - 2023                                                      Dissertation on the topic - „The Structure of Climate (In-)Justice: Power, Responsibility, and the Struggle for Change“ (supervised by Prof. Dr. Moellendorf / Prof. Dr. Forst)

2018M.A. Political Theory, Goethe University Frankfurt / TU Darmstadt

2015                            B.A. Political Science, Universität Hamburg

International Research Stays

10/2021 - 12/2021        Visiting Doctoral Student, Centre for the Study of Social Justice, University of Oxford

01/2017 - 06/2017ERASMUS Student, University of Southampton

Publications

Articles in academic journals

(2022): 'Power concedes nothing without a demand': The Structural Injustice of Climate Change, In: Critical Review for International Social and Political Philosophy, [Online first] DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2022.2149060

Reviews and smaller works

(2023): Climate Justice, In: Sellers, M. & Kirste, S. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Springer Dordrecht. [Invited contribution]

(2022): Review of Catherine Lu's “Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics"; In: Journal of Moral Philosophy, 19 (3), pp. 307-310. DOI: 10.1163/17455243-19030002

(2021): Was schulden wir zukünftigen Generationen?, In: thema.JUGEND (3/2021), S. 13-15.

(2020): Verantwortung übernehmen für die Klimakrise, In: Außerschulische Bildung (3/2020), S. 12-19.