Luisa Jürgens, M.A.

research assistant

Areas of interest

  • Alternative economic models and the democratisation of ownership
  • Local social and economic policy in the context of global crises
  • Critique of neoliberalism and neoliberal governmentality
  • Feminist political economy
  • Public service infrastructures
  • Curriculum vitae

    Since January 2025                                                                                                                                      Research Associate in the sub-project “Who Owns the Foundation? Infrastructure Regulations and the Renegotiation of the Public Sphere” within the DFG Collaborative Research Centre TRR 294 “Structural Change in Ownership”, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    July 2024 to December 2024                                                                                                                          Predoc fellow at the DFG Collaborative Research Centre TRR 294 “Structural Change in Property”, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    August 2022 to December 2024                                                                                                                              Research assistant in sub-project C04 “Disputes over the Public Sphere and the Future of the Commons. Property Relations in the Context of Welfare State Transformation” of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre TRR 294 “Structural Change in Property Relations”, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    October 2019 to June 2024                                                                                                                           Studied Social Theory (MA) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, graduating with a master’s thesis on Community Wealth Building

    October 2021 to March 2022                                                                                                                       Erasmus semester at the University of Vienna

    April 2020 to July 2021                                                                                                                                       Tutor at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, supporting the lectures ‘Fundamental Problems of Theoretical Philosophy’ (Summer Semester 2020 and Winter Semester 2020/21) and ‘Fundamental Problems of the Philosophy of Science’

    October 2016 to July 2019                                                                                                                             Studied Philosophy and Cultural Studies (BA, dual bachelor’s degree) at the University of Leipzig, graduating with a dissertation on the relationship between humans and nature in Donna Haraway’s critique of science

    10/2014 to 09/2016                                                                                                                                          Studied to become a secondary school teacher (state examination) in German and Ethics/Philosophy at the University of Leipzig