Lior Hamovitz
@liorhamovitz
PhD candidate @ BU || cool aunt! environmental justice, care ethics, Indigenous epistemologies, climate constitutionalism, Latin America, qualitative methods in political theory
the notion of the communist manifesto by Marx and Engels being posted on a free internet archive managed entirely horizontally and accessible to anyone seeking to produce or consume publicly available art
Dear all, I'm headed to Quito, Ecuador, this Aug/Sep to conduct interviews for my PhD dissertation. I investigate environmental justice & Rights of Nature in the region, and am generally interested in (Indigenous) climate organizing. If you or someone you know are based in the area please reach out!
Saw a red-shouldered blackbird on my walk and now I am officially a Bird Person how is this real???? She’s everything to me
Chinese investments of over $200 billion in Latin America between 2000-2024 (source: @latinometrics.bsky.social)
unfortunately I have come to realize the etymology of the word seminal and now we as a scholarly collective must think of ways to stop using it
I happen to be rereading @amitav63.bsky.social's The Great Derangement, which starts by discussing the March 18, 1978, "freak tornado" that had hit Delhi, India. In the 48 years since, with rising global temperatures, this once rare phenomenon in India had become more frequent and often deadlier.
Love me a good weaponization of the email signature... Read more about this problem here: dailyfreepress.com/09/19/10/214...
If you go for a run in Boston right now you’ll freeze your fingers off so bad you’d have an excuse not to work!
I picked up Ducks by Kate Beaton at random at the library (fund public libraries!!!!!!!) and could not set it down until finished. It tells the story of climate change as an intersectional issue in the most poignant, often funny and more often painful, way possible. I could not recommend it more.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft an absolute all-time banger straight from the start
Nobody puts baby in a corner. (except for baby, she loves it there)
Thank you to my editor for her invaluable feedback and hands-on involvement in the writing process