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Jasper Friedrich


I am a doctoral candidate in political theory in the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Oxford and a Teaching Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government. My work is concerned with the politics of emotions, mental health, reconciliation and political apologies, as well as theories of power. I draw on a wide range of sources in my writings, including critical theory and continental political philosophy, but also sociological and psychological theory, cognitive science, sociolinguistics and analytic philosophy of language among other things. Currently, I am working on a DPhil thesis titled The Miserable is Political: A Critical Theory of Anger and Depression. It explores how emotional reactions to injustice and exploitation are increasingly depoliticised through a 'therapeutic' politics and makes an argument for why and how we should re-politicise these emotions. I teach undergraduate tutorials in political theory and critical theory as well as graduate seminars in political philosophy on Oxford's Master of Public Policy.

For my DPhil, I am a recipient of a Clarendon Scholarship and the Corpus ChristiA. E. Haigh Scholarship. Previously, I completed an MSc Political Theory Research at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, with a thesis on the politics of mental health and generous funding from an OxfordTrygfonden Scholarship. Before that, I studied International Relations and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen and wrote an undergraduate thesis on state apologies for historical injustices.

Jasper Friedrich

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Email: jasper.friedrich (at) politics.ox.ac.uk
Twitter: @JK_Friedrich
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