About Research CV

Peer-reviewed articles

J. Friedrich (forthcoming). ‘The Bellwether of Oppression: Anger, Critique, and Resistance’. Hypatia. Preprint available here.

J. Friedrich (2022). ‘Philosophy from the Texture of Everyday Life: The Critical-Analytic Methods of Foucault and J. L. Austin’. Foucault Studies 33: 48-66. Available online or in PDF [open access].

J. Friedrich (2022). ‘Anger and Apology, Recognition and Reconciliation: Managing Emotions in the Wake of Injustice’. Global Studies Quarterly 2(2): ksac023. Available online or in PDF [open access].

J. Friedrich (2022). ‘Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies’. Political Theory 50(5): 700-722. Available online or in PDF [open access].

J. Friedrich and R. Shanks (2021). ‘“The Prison of the Body”: School Uniforms between Discipline and Governmentality’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Online first. Available online or in PDF [open access].

M. Zoodsma, J. Shaafsma, T. Sagherian-Dickey and J. Friedrich. (2021) ‘These are not Just Words: A Cross-National Comparative Study of the Content of Political Apologies’. International Review of Social Psychology 34(1). Available online [open access].

Book reviews

J. Friedrich (2022). Review of S. Elden, The Early Foucault (Cambridge: Polity, 2021). Foucault Studies 32, 109-113. Available online or as PDF [open access].

J. Friedrich (2021). Review of M. Dean & D. Zamora, The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution (London: Verso, 2021). Foucault Studies 31, pp. 257-261. Available online or as PDF [open access]. The Verso Blog published a response by Mitchell Dean to my review here.

Master's Thesis

J. Friedrich (2021). Depression and Critique: Towards a Political Theory of Mental Health. MSc Thesis. University of Oxford. Available here.

Presentations and Talks

Respondent to Sally Haslanger, ‘Who Cares? Networks of Knowledge and Solidarity’. Berlin Critical Theory Summer School, July 3, 2023, Humboldt University Berlin.

‘The Bellwether of Oppression: On the Political Value of Anger’. Invited talk. May 23, 2023, Centre for Ethics, University of Antwerp.

‘Suffering’s Reason: The Place of Emotion in Critique’. 15th International Critical Theory Conference in Rome, May 7-9, 2023, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago.

‘Emotion’. Political Concepts Graduate Conference, March 24-25, 2023, New School for Social Research, New York.

‘The Missing Link Between Self and Society in Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical Theory’. MANCEPT Workshops, September 8, 2022, University of Manchester.

Respondent to Nancy Fraser, ‘Struggle over Needs’. Berlin Critical Theory Summer School, July 4, 2022, Humboldt University Berlin.

‘Retheorizing Negative Emotions and Resistance’. Rethinking Resistance Conference, June 24, 2022, University of Oxford.

‘Political Emotions: A Phenomenological Approach’. Oxford Work in Progress in Political Theory (OWIPT), June 16, 2022, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Respondent to Nikolas Rose, ‘What Are We Doing When We Talk About “Mental Health”? Speaking of Suffering in the Time of COVID’. Oxford Critical Theory Seminar, May 17, 2022, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

‘Settler-Colonial Recognition and the Therapeutic Politics of Anger and Reconciliation’. Durham Political Theory Graduate Conference, April 6, 2022, University of Durham.

‘Anger and Apology, Recognition and Reconciliation: Managing Emotions in the Wake of Injustice’. Oxford Work in Progress in Political Theory (OWIPT), February 23, 2022, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

‘Continuity through Contrition: A Nonideal Theory of State Apologies’. UCLA Graduate Conference in Political Theory, April 23-25, 2021, University of California, Los Angeles.

‘Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Theory of State Apologies’. Political Apologies for Historical Wrongs Workshop, February 4, 2021, University of Aberdeen.

‘Dressing to Impress? A Foucauldian Analysis of Secondary School Uniform Policies’ (with Rachel Shanks). Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference: Opening up Education, September 5, 2020, Institute of Education, Dublin City University.

‘Uniform: Power and Control in Schools’ (with Rachel Shanks). Research seminar. April 29, 2020, School of Education, University of Aberdeen.