Joonas Martikainen
 

    Philosophy (Department of Philosophy, Political Science and Contemporary History)


joonas.s.martikainen@utu.fi




ORCID identifierhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6537-6397

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Agency as Experience and Capacity



Areas of expertise
political agency; political poverty; political theory; phenomenology; critical social theory

Biography

I am a researcher in political theory and phenomenology with the Agency as Experience and Capacity project. My research focuses on what it means to feel like a capable political agent, and investigates the experiential conditions of meaningful political agency. My recent book Political Poverty: Losing Faith in Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) puts forward an experientialist account of political inequality that places perceptual experience at the center of our thinking on political freedom. 



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