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
Great review of a super interesting book and I love this way of thinking through knowledge production on gender and international law as a form of ‘feminist debt’.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Great review of a super interesting book and I love this way of thinking through knowledge production on gender and international law as a form of ‘feminist debt’.
academic.oup.com/ejil/article...
academic.oup.com/ejil/article...
“A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness:
Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine”
All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to UNRWA.
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Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine”
All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to UNRWA.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness:
Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine”
All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to UNRWA.
www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine”
All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to UNRWA.
www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
Fascinating stuff on the ‘colonial’ inspiration behind the new conventions for women’s dressing after the FR:
September 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Fascinating stuff on the ‘colonial’ inspiration behind the new conventions for women’s dressing after the FR:
September 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The wonderful rise of Zohran Mamdani has me reaching out to my bookshelves for Mahmood Mamdani’s excellent ‘Citizen and Subject’…
All kinds of associations, I guess…
All kinds of associations, I guess…
June 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The wonderful rise of Zohran Mamdani has me reaching out to my bookshelves for Mahmood Mamdani’s excellent ‘Citizen and Subject’…
All kinds of associations, I guess…
All kinds of associations, I guess…
This morning’s rose—The Albrighton Climber.
May 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This morning’s rose—The Albrighton Climber.
Rosa Luxemburg reading afternoon.
The Junius Pamphlet, 1915
The Junius Pamphlet, 1915
May 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Rosa Luxemburg reading afternoon.
The Junius Pamphlet, 1915
The Junius Pamphlet, 1915
May 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Reading in class this afternoon:
Wendy Brown, “In the ruins of neoliberalism: The rise of anti democratic politics in the West”.
Wendy Brown, “In the ruins of neoliberalism: The rise of anti democratic politics in the West”.
February 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Reading in class this afternoon:
Wendy Brown, “In the ruins of neoliberalism: The rise of anti democratic politics in the West”.
Wendy Brown, “In the ruins of neoliberalism: The rise of anti democratic politics in the West”.
It’s my first time reading Han Kang.
I’m just spellbound by the beauty of the writing. And, of the thinking.
I’m just spellbound by the beauty of the writing. And, of the thinking.
January 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It’s my first time reading Han Kang.
I’m just spellbound by the beauty of the writing. And, of the thinking.
I’m just spellbound by the beauty of the writing. And, of the thinking.
There’s an arresting paragraph on the long history of ‘silencing those protesting war’ that runs ‘unabated’ from the First World War to the War on Palestine and Gaza.
January 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
There’s an arresting paragraph on the long history of ‘silencing those protesting war’ that runs ‘unabated’ from the First World War to the War on Palestine and Gaza.
More clear eyed thinking and writing in the Amnesty Lecture on what’s at stake.
January 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
More clear eyed thinking and writing in the Amnesty Lecture on what’s at stake.
Edward Said on intellectuals speaking ‘truth to power’ in ‘Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation’, Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1992.
“For the Intellectual,to be “for” human rights means, in effect, to be willing to venture interpretations of those rights...of how they’re connected, involved..”
“For the Intellectual,to be “for” human rights means, in effect, to be willing to venture interpretations of those rights...of how they’re connected, involved..”
January 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Edward Said on intellectuals speaking ‘truth to power’ in ‘Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation’, Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1992.
“For the Intellectual,to be “for” human rights means, in effect, to be willing to venture interpretations of those rights...of how they’re connected, involved..”
“For the Intellectual,to be “for” human rights means, in effect, to be willing to venture interpretations of those rights...of how they’re connected, involved..”
More text from this piece, first delivered as part of the Amnesty lectures.
January 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
More text from this piece, first delivered as part of the Amnesty lectures.
I can’t believe I’ve only just come across Rachid Taha.
I don’t think I’ve heard any song with so many of my favourite intellectuals
So interesting too that Jacques Derrida, born in Algeria, claimed as African alongside Malcolm X, Cesàire, Frantz Fanon & Angela Davis.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWKo...
I don’t think I’ve heard any song with so many of my favourite intellectuals
So interesting too that Jacques Derrida, born in Algeria, claimed as African alongside Malcolm X, Cesàire, Frantz Fanon & Angela Davis.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWKo...
December 7, 2024 at 12:23 PM
I can’t believe I’ve only just come across Rachid Taha.
I don’t think I’ve heard any song with so many of my favourite intellectuals
So interesting too that Jacques Derrida, born in Algeria, claimed as African alongside Malcolm X, Cesàire, Frantz Fanon & Angela Davis.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWKo...
I don’t think I’ve heard any song with so many of my favourite intellectuals
So interesting too that Jacques Derrida, born in Algeria, claimed as African alongside Malcolm X, Cesàire, Frantz Fanon & Angela Davis.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWKo...
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
An important book for the times:
Billy Holzberg, one of the editors of ‘Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’, speaking at the book’s launch at the LSE.
An important book for the times:
Billy Holzberg, one of the editors of ‘Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’, speaking at the book’s launch at the LSE.
November 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
An important book for the times:
Billy Holzberg, one of the editors of ‘Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’, speaking at the book’s launch at the LSE.
An important book for the times:
Billy Holzberg, one of the editors of ‘Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’, speaking at the book’s launch at the LSE.
This week, I was so moved to give a lecture in the Canada Room at Queen’s University, Belfast. Above where I stood to speak was this stunning painting of university women workers marching for equality.
If you look closely, you’ll see: Porters, Technicians, Profs, Child minders’, Caterers, Pro VC..
If you look closely, you’ll see: Porters, Technicians, Profs, Child minders’, Caterers, Pro VC..
November 24, 2024 at 12:19 PM
This week, I was so moved to give a lecture in the Canada Room at Queen’s University, Belfast. Above where I stood to speak was this stunning painting of university women workers marching for equality.
If you look closely, you’ll see: Porters, Technicians, Profs, Child minders’, Caterers, Pro VC..
If you look closely, you’ll see: Porters, Technicians, Profs, Child minders’, Caterers, Pro VC..
Puppy rituals to welcome the first snow into the little garden. ❄️
November 19, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Puppy rituals to welcome the first snow into the little garden. ❄️
The editors’ ‘Introduction’ to the ‘Cunning of Gender Violence’ is among the best things I’ve read this week.
“The Cunning of Gender Violence” (2023) Editors: Abu-Lughod, Lila, Rema Hammami, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Here’s the Introduction👇🏽
www.dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-...
“The Cunning of Gender Violence” (2023) Editors: Abu-Lughod, Lila, Rema Hammami, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Here’s the Introduction👇🏽
www.dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-...
November 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
The editors’ ‘Introduction’ to the ‘Cunning of Gender Violence’ is among the best things I’ve read this week.
“The Cunning of Gender Violence” (2023) Editors: Abu-Lughod, Lila, Rema Hammami, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Here’s the Introduction👇🏽
www.dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-...
“The Cunning of Gender Violence” (2023) Editors: Abu-Lughod, Lila, Rema Hammami, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Here’s the Introduction👇🏽
www.dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-...
Perhaps, it’s me, but the thing about reading week is that by the time one gets to the reading bit, the week’s mostly already over.
At any rate, before Monday arrives…
At any rate, before Monday arrives…
November 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Perhaps, it’s me, but the thing about reading week is that by the time one gets to the reading bit, the week’s mostly already over.
At any rate, before Monday arrives…
At any rate, before Monday arrives…
Friday afternoon reading:
November 8, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Friday afternoon reading:
New books. And even more unopened LRBs, although, I quickly read Eagleton’s review of Jameson’s ‘Years of Theory’…
waiting for the book to arrive.
Oh, found ‘The Junius Pamphlet’ in a second hand book store in Sheffield. It’s inscription: 1974!
I love it when readers leave a date on their books.
waiting for the book to arrive.
Oh, found ‘The Junius Pamphlet’ in a second hand book store in Sheffield. It’s inscription: 1974!
I love it when readers leave a date on their books.
October 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
New books. And even more unopened LRBs, although, I quickly read Eagleton’s review of Jameson’s ‘Years of Theory’…
waiting for the book to arrive.
Oh, found ‘The Junius Pamphlet’ in a second hand book store in Sheffield. It’s inscription: 1974!
I love it when readers leave a date on their books.
waiting for the book to arrive.
Oh, found ‘The Junius Pamphlet’ in a second hand book store in Sheffield. It’s inscription: 1974!
I love it when readers leave a date on their books.
Prep for the first lecture of the new academic year!
September 26, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Prep for the first lecture of the new academic year!
Definitely a creeping autumnal tone in the little garden this afternoon.
September 16, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Definitely a creeping autumnal tone in the little garden this afternoon.
“Futures of Critique in a Pluricentric World”.
12-13 July.
In case, of interest.
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12-13 July.
In case, of interest.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/futures-of...
June 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM
“Futures of Critique in a Pluricentric World”.
12-13 July.
In case, of interest.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/futures-of...
12-13 July.
In case, of interest.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/futures-of...