Lawrence Hamilton is the SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory, based at the Universities of theWitwatersrand and Cambridge. He contributes to rethink political theory from and for the Global South. His works include Amartya Sen (2019), Freedom is Power (2014) and The Political Philosophy of Needs (2003).
In this month’s podcast I interview Professor Federico M Rossi about social movements and political change in Argentina. We discuss the emergence of the Piquetero Movement which is arguably the most significant unemployed workers’ movement in the world and the concept of Peronism in the country.
Also, not to be missed, in our monthly feature called the Political Agenda, political studies scholar Moshibudi Motimele looks at the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.