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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

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...

SONA 2026 | Prof Lawrence Hamilton weighs in on President's speech YouTube video by SABC News

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...

New paper on "Representative Democracy Against Oligarchy" in New Political Science by @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social

Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

Volume 47 Issue 4 | New Political Science | Duke University Press

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

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...

Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize European Consortium for Political Research

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

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...

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor in International Relations (Global Governance)
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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
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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.

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....

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...

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

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...

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....

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.

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

Trumpism will eat itself.

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