Lawrence Hamilton 🌍
@lawrencehamilton.bsky.social
🇿🇦🇧🇷🇬🇧 SA UK bilateral research prof in political theory, Wits & Cambridge; Host: critical south podcast Needs; political change from south; climate crisis; political judgement; radical representative democracy Books: http://amazon.co.uk/-/e/B001HPFH82
NEW POSTDOC: Rethinking the Anti-Corruption Toolkit: 2026-2027. @samuel_e_bagg is hiring a postdoc for this great project in Columbia, SC. 👇 apply.interfolio.com/188955
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This I find as extraordinary as anything: large numbers of four and five year-olds with their own mobile phone
The latest OPEN ACCESS issue of Theoria is now live! TOC and more available here: bit.ly/4ndqJs0 @laurencepiper.bsky.social @christinehobden.bsky.social @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social @camilavergara.bsky.social @andrewfiala.bsky.social
Contributions from @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social, Wendy Brown, @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social, Jamie Doughty, Guilherme Leite Gonçalves & Lena Lavinas, Alice Baderin, Ian Olasov, Simon Stevens, Sarah Stitzlein, and @lenahalldenius.bsky.social & Moa Petersén.
🌹🌹Come & work with me within a thriving academic community transforming political theory from & for the global south. See the advert below (deadline 30 April) @cam.ac.uk @campolis.bsky.social @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social @dunanbell.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/lawren...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | Lawrence Hamilton
🌹🌹Come & work with me within a thriving community of political theorists pushing the boundaries of global political theory from & for the global south. See the advert below for a postdoctoral research...
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🌹🌹Come & work with me within a thriving academic community transforming political theory from & for the global south. See the advert below (deadline 30 April) @cam.ac.uk @campolis.bsky.social @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social @dunanbell.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/lawren...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | Lawrence Hamilton
🌹🌹Come & work with me within a thriving community of political theorists pushing the boundaries of global political theory from & for the global south. See the advert below for a postdoctoral research...
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SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture, join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/lawren...
SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture | Lawrence Hamilton
Join us next Wednesday for a hybrid talk by Dr Edward Murambwa, University of Cambridge hosted by SA UK Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture Series University of the Witwatersra...
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SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture, join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/lawren...
SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture | Lawrence Hamilton
Join us next Wednesday for a hybrid talk by Dr Edward Murambwa, University of Cambridge hosted by SA UK Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture Series University of the Witwatersra...
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As Patrizia Isabelle Nanz put it so well recently on LinkedIn, ‘we are drowning in data but starving for wisdom’. Dark times, only amplified by the actions & idiocy of the so-called ‘leader of the free world’. Is he a leader? Is the ‘West’ free?
Yay for physical copies of the book (one day late for the first book talk, but never mind)! The thing is open access (as per funky open padlock symbol on the front cover doi.org/10.4324/9781...), so can't imagine too many of these will find their way into the offline realm
It’s book launch day! Marx & the Politics of Need is out today, available open access. I hope it sparks ideas and conversations. Dive in here: doi.org/10.4324/9781...
Marx and the Politics of Need | George Boss | Taylor & Francis eBooks,
Marx and the Politics of Need challenges one of the most pervasive habits in contemporary political theory and practice: treating needs as moral facts that sit
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My thoughts on South Africa’s recent presidential State of the Nation Speech for @sabcnews.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=GA5A...
SONA 2026 | Prof Lawrence Hamilton weighs in on President's speech
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New paper on "Representative Democracy Against Oligarchy" in New Political Science by @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...
Representative Democracy Against Oligarchy | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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Just out! Representative Institutions and Radical Change symposium in @npsjournal.bsky.social 47:4 with contributions from Lisa Disch, @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social Hamilton and Efthimios Karayiannides read.dukeupress.edu/nps/issue/47/4
Volume 47 Issue 4 | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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How could political theory become more accessible to fellow citizens? @campolis.bsky.social 'The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens' | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens - Volume 1
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Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
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How could political theory become more accessible to fellow citizens? @campolis.bsky.social 'The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens' | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens - Volume 1
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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor in International Relations (Global Governance) www.ipsa.org/na/job-offer...
Great to be joined today by @camilavergara.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow to discuss 'Systemic Corruption, Oligarchy and Plebeian Democracy'
Join us next Friday 21 for a roundtable on John McCormick's excellent new book The People's Princes at King's College London w/ comments by David Wootton (York), Lawrence Hamilton (Cambridge) & myself. There will be wine & great conversation on leadership & politics Register here 👇 shorturl.at/XmAsZ
Obrigado Amilcar Pereira do @ufrj pelo convite para falar sobre Rick Turner, o presente como história, e o papel do teórico político público na mudança política. E tambem pelo convite a abertura da exposição inédita no pais sobre a história da escravidão no Museu Histórico Nacional, no Rio.
Happy to share my latest publication ‘Needs, judgement, and hubris, or judging politics from the perspective of the pandemic’. In it I analyse the effects of hubris and basic needs ideology on political decision-making. Conclusions are telling. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Needs, judgement, and hubris, or judging politics from the perspective of the pandemic
This essay deals in both critique and diagnosis: critique, in that it outlines the failings of certain approaches to needs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and diagnosis, in that it links t...
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I’m giving a talk soon at the Instituto de Filosofia a Ciências Sociais do Rio de Janeiro @ufrjoficial.bsky.social (see below). In Portuguese. Wish me luck! Come along! Or just spread the word please. @campolis.bsky.social @camilavergara.bsky.social @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social @duncanbell.bsky.social
New LASA Forum I coedited with the amazing Max Cameron on an agenda-setting topic: Oligarchic Republics in Latin America (since the original emancipatory project during independence struggles until the present plutocratic characteristics). Full open access here: forum.lasaweb.org/issues/vol56...
Oligarchic Republics in Latin America - 56:4 - LASA Forum
Capitulation, a Peruvian retablo created by Jesús Urbano Cárdenas, Master Amauta of Peruvian Folk Art.
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I’m giving a talk soon at the Instituto de Filosofia a Ciências Sociais do Rio de Janeiro @ufrjoficial.bsky.social (see below). In Portuguese. Wish me luck! Come along! Or just spread the word please. @campolis.bsky.social @camilavergara.bsky.social @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social @duncanbell.bsky.social
Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...
10 AI Prompts for Academics
making those hard jobs a little easier ...
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Happy to share my latest publication ‘Needs, judgement, and hubris, or judging politics from the perspective of the pandemic’. In it I analyse the effects of hubris and basic needs ideology on political decision-making. Conclusions are telling. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Needs, judgement, and hubris, or judging politics from the perspective of the pandemic
This essay deals in both critique and diagnosis: critique, in that it outlines the failings of certain approaches to needs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and diagnosis, in that it links t...
tandfonline.com
