Lior Hamovitz

Lior Hamovitz is an environmental justice scholar, specializing in political theory with an emphasis on feminist care ethics and Indigenous epistemologies. She is a CSSN Scholar and a 2024 recipient of BU Women’s Council Award. She has earned a bachelor’s degree in World Politics from Leiden University’s honors program (LUC The Hague: Global Challenges), and her master’s degrees in Political Science from both the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Boston University. Her research agenda stems from the compounding effects of geography, history and identity on people’s lived experience of climate injustices.

Lior’s PhD dissertation approaches global climate change through the lenses of kinship and grievability, bridging the insights of critical feminist and decolonial scholarship, ecological jurisprudence, and the Andean cosmovision. The theoretical framework of the research is supported by fieldwork across Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia, studying the Rights of Nature legislative battles and their advocates in the region. The doctoral project advances a recognition of more-than-human kin worlds, and the political role of mourning their unraveling in the Anthropocene.