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🇿🇦🇧🇷🇬🇧 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: amazon.co.uk/-/e/B001HPFH82

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
my book Union has a cover. Indeed, two covers- one for the UK release and one for the US. Forthcoming August of next year.
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Cristian Rivera @cristiar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Particularly relevant for advocates of popular gov, political constitutionalism and democratic responsiveness who, despite their compelling substantive arguments (arguments that have inspired this article), have traditionally lacked formal tools to defend against charges of collective irrationality
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Cristian Rivera @cristiar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My new article in CRISPP. (Open Access) The article draws on alternative judgment aggregation methods to argue that majoritarianism can be reasonable and coherent, contra well-known anti-majoritarian arguments inspired by the discursive dilemma. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This I find as extraordinary as anything: large numbers of four and five year-olds with their own mobile phone
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.
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George Boss @georgeboss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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.
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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🌹🌹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...
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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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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🌹🌹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...
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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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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture, join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/lawren...
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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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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory Public Lecture, join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/lawren...
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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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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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?
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George Boss @georgeboss.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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
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George Boss @georgeboss.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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...
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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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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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...
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SONA 2026 | Prof Lawrence Hamilton weighs in on President's speech
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Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge @campolis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
New paper on "Representative Democracy Against Oligarchy" in New Political Science by @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...
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Representative Democracy Against Oligarchy | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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Lasse Thomassen @lassethomassen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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
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Volume 47 Issue 4 | New Political Science | Duke University Press
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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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...
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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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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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
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Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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...
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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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IPSA @ipsa.org · 14/11/2025
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor in International Relations (Global Governance) www.ipsa.org/na/job-offer...
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People's Health Movement Scotland @phmscotland.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Great to be joined today by @camilavergara.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow to discuss 'Systemic Corruption, Oligarchy and Plebeian Democracy'
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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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
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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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.
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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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....
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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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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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
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Federico M. Rossi | www.federicorossi.site @federicorossi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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...
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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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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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...
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10 AI Prompts for Academics
making those hard jobs a little easier ...
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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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....
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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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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.
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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Thrilled to have been a part of the British Academy/Leverhulme podcast series!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Trumpism will eat itself.
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Lawrence Hamilton 🌍 @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Recent (v. belated) arrival from Musk madhouse. Please make me feel welcome
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