Lawrence Hamilton is the SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory, based at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Cambridge. He contributes to rethinking political theory from and for the Global South. His works include Amartya Sen (2019), Freedom is Power (2014), Are South Africans Free? (2014) and The Political Philosophy of Needs (2003).

Hamilton contributes to rethinking political theory from the perspective of the global South. His research interests include topics in contemporary political theory such as states, power, representation, freedom, needs, rights, resistance, democracy, markets, development and political judgment. These are all informed by real world politics — particularly in the global South — as well as the history of political thought, South African politics, political economy and global intellectual history.

Dr Nicole Beardsworth is a lecturer in Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand and an honorary research fellow in Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick. Nicole holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Warwick, an MA in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford. Her PhD research focused on opposition parties and electoral coordination in Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Her broader research is on the history and politics of sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on political parties, governance, democratisation and elections in Southern and Eastern Africa. Nicole is a regular writer for several academic blogs and newspapers and tweets from @nixiib.