Lawrence Hamilton 🌍

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

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...

26.11.2025 12:30 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor in International Relations (Global Governance)
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14.11.2025 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great to be joined today by @camilavergara.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow to discuss 'Systemic Corruption, Oligarchy and Plebeian Democracy'

12.11.2025 16:11 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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
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14.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

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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25.09.2025 17:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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...

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....

28.09.2025 11:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

21.10.2025 10:42 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Oligarchic Republics in Latin America - 56:4 - LASA Forum Capitulation, a Peruvian retablo created by Jesús Urbano Cárdenas, Master Amauta of Peruvian Folk Art.

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...

21.10.2025 10:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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

21.10.2025 10:42 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

10 AI Prompts for Academics making those hard jobs a little easier ...

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...

05.10.2025 07:55 — 👍 120    🔁 37    💬 7    📌 14

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...

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....

28.09.2025 11:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

25.09.2025 17:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

23.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 16    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Thrilled to have been a part of the British Academy/Leverhulme podcast series!

22.09.2025 08:56 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Trumpism will eat itself.

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Recent (v. belated) arrival from Musk madhouse. Please make me feel welcome

22.09.2025 19:18 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0