Sumi Madhok
@sumimadhok.bsky.social
LSE Professor| Feminist Political Theorist|Own Views|
Thinking and writing on human rights|Imperialism|Anti-imperial epistemic justice| Rights politics in most of the world| Recent book📕 bit.ly/3C3Tb7V
Thinking and writing on human rights|Imperialism|Anti-imperial epistemic justice| Rights politics in most of the world| Recent book📕 bit.ly/3C3Tb7V
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
“…anti-colonial knowledge, perhaps especially the work of nationalist intellectuals in the Third World, but not exclusively, is considered tainted, or derivative, or “activist,” or some other excuse for not taking it seriously as knowledge.
All the while, colonial knowledge can claim neutrality.”
All the while, colonial knowledge can claim neutrality.”
Colonial and Anti-Colonial Ideas at Columbia University (1970). pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com/2025/11/colo...
Colonial and Anti-Colonial Ideas at Columbia University (1970)
David Farhi and Edward Said. From The Spectator . Recently I had the pleasure of sharing my work and meeting people at an exciting event on...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“…anti-colonial knowledge, perhaps especially the work of nationalist intellectuals in the Third World, but not exclusively, is considered tainted, or derivative, or “activist,” or some other excuse for not taking it seriously as knowledge.
All the while, colonial knowledge can claim neutrality.”
All the while, colonial knowledge can claim neutrality.”
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@sumimadhok.bsky.social joins this keynote lecture to explore what it means to develop richer, more substantive frameworks for human rights accountability that transcend the boundaries between law, politics, and moral claims ⬇️
futureproofinghumanrights.org/keynote-lect...
futureproofinghumanrights.org/keynote-lect...
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
@sumimadhok.bsky.social joins this keynote lecture to explore what it means to develop richer, more substantive frameworks for human rights accountability that transcend the boundaries between law, politics, and moral claims ⬇️
futureproofinghumanrights.org/keynote-lect...
futureproofinghumanrights.org/keynote-lect...
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Absolutely. I would love to be able to listen again to BBC News without despairing at how craven it is to a right wing agenda and language. For instance, persistently mis-describing asylum seekers as ‘illegal migrants’
The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Absolutely. I would love to be able to listen again to BBC News without despairing at how craven it is to a right wing agenda and language. For instance, persistently mis-describing asylum seekers as ‘illegal migrants’
Yes. And, should be obvious, no?
It’s always about how to think about the bigger picture, i.e. most of the world…
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
It’s always about how to think about the bigger picture, i.e. most of the world…
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over theory - Impact of Social Sciences
Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yes. And, should be obvious, no?
It’s always about how to think about the bigger picture, i.e. most of the world…
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
It’s always about how to think about the bigger picture, i.e. most of the world…
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
“If this happens to the head of state, to our supreme commander, to our president of the republic, it also happens silently every day to thousands of women in our country”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Mexican women outraged by public sexual assault on their president
‘Humiliating’ groping of Claudia Sheinbaum by drunken man prompts widespread condemnation
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“If this happens to the head of state, to our supreme commander, to our president of the republic, it also happens silently every day to thousands of women in our country”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Our student Mahnoor Omer featured in The Guardian on her work challenging Pakistan’s ‘period tax’ ⬇️
@theguardian.com
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@theguardian.com
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November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Our student Mahnoor Omer featured in The Guardian on her work challenging Pakistan’s ‘period tax’ ⬇️
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The fact that the candidate was of a racialised minority, attempting to withstand a barrage of racism from his opponents and come through on a platform of egalitarianism, is something that is bound to resonate worldwide in this historical moment. I'm not clear why this should need to be explained?
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The fact that the candidate was of a racialised minority, attempting to withstand a barrage of racism from his opponents and come through on a platform of egalitarianism, is something that is bound to resonate worldwide in this historical moment. I'm not clear why this should need to be explained?
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🧑⚖️ Join us on 18 November for a conversation with @sumimadhok.bsky.social, @smrodriguez.bsky.social, Prof Nicola Lacey and Prof Susanne Baer!
🥂 Drinks reception after the event!
🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
🥂 Drinks reception after the event!
🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
November 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🧑⚖️ Join us on 18 November for a conversation with @sumimadhok.bsky.social, @smrodriguez.bsky.social, Prof Nicola Lacey and Prof Susanne Baer!
🥂 Drinks reception after the event!
🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
🥂 Drinks reception after the event!
🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
It was unmistakeable and flashed across my mind, too.
In Mamdani's New York win, India's Nehru finds an echo
At his New York victory rally, Zohran Mamdani gave a nod to Nehru’s iconic speech marking India's independence.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It was unmistakeable and flashed across my mind, too.
Amidst horror show upon horror show, so good to know that there are also the principled brave who walk amongst us.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York on winning night for Democrats
Democratic socialist, 34, becomes city’s first Muslim mayor as Democrats triumph in several other key races
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Amidst horror show upon horror show, so good to know that there are also the principled brave who walk amongst us.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
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A case study in far right propaganda success. Tory governments run down public services over decades & then the the populist right breeds in ruined communities by scapegoating Black & brown immigrants.
Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A case study in far right propaganda success. Tory governments run down public services over decades & then the the populist right breeds in ruined communities by scapegoating Black & brown immigrants.
Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rafeef Ziadah writes on “Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future”.
@rafeefz.bsky.social
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@rafeefz.bsky.social
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Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future
In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust.
At fir...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Rafeef Ziadah writes on “Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future”.
@rafeefz.bsky.social
www.merip.org/2025/10/hard...
@rafeefz.bsky.social
www.merip.org/2025/10/hard...
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Join us for our event with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social, co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social 🌳
🌳 Join us on 12 November for a conversation with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social!
➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice.
➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social
➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice.
➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social
➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Join us for our event with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social, co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social 🌳
Apply to study with us at the absolute cutting-edge and state-of-the-art intersection of the social sciences and the humanities!
📚✏️ PROGRAMME SPOTLIGHT: MSC GENDER, POLICY AND INEQUALITIES
Find out more about all our MSc Programmes here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/study...
Find out more about all our MSc Programmes here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/study...
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Apply to study with us at the absolute cutting-edge and state-of-the-art intersection of the social sciences and the humanities!
I’m always inspired by our brilliant students @lsegender.bsky.social. 👏🏽
Our student Mahnoor Omer is featured in @aljazeera.com for her work against period poverty in Pakistan!
➡️ Read more here: www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...
➡️ Read more here: www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I’m always inspired by our brilliant students @lsegender.bsky.social. 👏🏽
This was a lot fun. And, a dazzling book, which you should read!
We were delighted to host the launch of Professor John Chalcraft's book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization (University of California Press, 2025).
👂🏿 If you missed the event, you can now listen to the recording on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q816...
👂🏿 If you missed the event, you can now listen to the recording on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q816...
Thinking Popular Mobilization With Gramsci | John Chalcraft | Book Launch
YouTube video by LSE Government
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October 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This was a lot fun. And, a dazzling book, which you should read!
Zack Polanski reciting Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘The British’.
And, the Greens are surging up in the polls. Tells you something!
And, the Greens are surging up in the polls. Tells you something!
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Zack Polanski reciting Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘The British’.
And, the Greens are surging up in the polls. Tells you something!
And, the Greens are surging up in the polls. Tells you something!
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🌳 Join us on 12 November for a conversation with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social!
➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice.
➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social
➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice.
➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social
➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🌳 Join us on 12 November for a conversation with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social!
➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice.
➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social
➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice.
➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social
➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A wonderful Sunday morning listening.
‘The point of creativity is imperfection’…
besides, so much other thoughtful thinking.
mihttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002k4kh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
‘The point of creativity is imperfection’…
besides, so much other thoughtful thinking.
mihttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002k4kh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
This Cultural Life - Jonathan Anderson - BBC Sounds
Fashion designer Jonathan Anderson on his creative influences and inspirations.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A wonderful Sunday morning listening.
‘The point of creativity is imperfection’…
besides, so much other thoughtful thinking.
mihttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002k4kh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
‘The point of creativity is imperfection’…
besides, so much other thoughtful thinking.
mihttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002k4kh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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I'm looking forward to chairing this event and learning from Dr Afaf Jabiri!
Join us for an urgent conversation with @afafjabiri.bsky.social, discussing Palestinian women’s experiences and politcial life under conditions of settler colonialism and forced displacement!
Chaired by @hsw.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
Chaired by @hsw.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I'm looking forward to chairing this event and learning from Dr Afaf Jabiri!
And, Yes! The Nobel Peace 🏆 👏🏽https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1l80g1qe4gt
Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
And, Yes! The Nobel Peace 🏆 👏🏽https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1l80g1qe4gt
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1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.
Thread below ⬇️
Thread below ⬇️
Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
www.cambridge.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.
Thread below ⬇️
Thread below ⬇️