Lior Hamovitz

I am a Political Science PhD candidate at Boston University and CSSN Scholar, specializing in Political Theory. My interests are in the field of Environmental Justice, with research centering on understanding environmental injustices through the lenses of kinship and loss. In my work, I aim to contribute not only to academic scholarship, but also the practice of justice-making in global climate discourses. 

Currently, my research explores how relational ontologies and Andean cosmovisions may inform a more profound view of kinship that could transform our ability to grieve ecological losses and in turn act to mitigate them.

I have earned my bachelor’s degree in World Politics from Leiden University’s honors program, and my master’s degree in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During my graduate studies, I hope to conduct further fieldwork in the region of the Andes, utilizing a variety of methodological approaches to ground normative claims regarding the pursuit of climate justice. My research agenda engages with Indigenous epistemologies generally and Andean worldviews particularly, studying the compounding effects of geography, history and identity on people’s lived experience of climate injustices.