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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Shared my reflections on a brilliant event by LSE Law School and the Department of Gender Studies—on sex/gender as legal status, the semiotics of criminality, colonial inheritances, and law’s ambivalence. Speakers: Lacey, Rodriguez, Baer. Chair: Madhok.
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Last evening, I had the privilege of attending an extraordinary event co-hosted by the LSE Law School and the LSE Department of Gender Studies: ‘Gender and the Law: How law matters to gender or how… |...
Last evening, I had the privilege of attending an extraordinary event co-hosted by the LSE Law School and the LSE Department of Gender Studies: ‘Gender and the Law: How law matters to gender or how ge...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Shared my reflections on a brilliant event by LSE Law School and the Department of Gender Studies—on sex/gender as legal status, the semiotics of criminality, colonial inheritances, and law’s ambivalence. Speakers: Lacey, Rodriguez, Baer. Chair: Madhok.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …
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November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
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It’s been a despairing year for race relations in this country.
I didn’t think I’d say this of a labour government. And, of their first year, too.
I didn’t think I’d say this of a labour government. And, of their first year, too.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It’s been a despairing year for race relations in this country.
I didn’t think I’d say this of a labour government. And, of their first year, too.
I didn’t think I’d say this of a labour government. And, of their first year, too.
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Interested in a MSc in Gender Studies? 🤔
Join our Virtual Graduate Open Eveny this Wednesday, meet faculty, staff and alumni and get answers for all your questions!
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Join our Virtual Graduate Open Eveny this Wednesday, meet faculty, staff and alumni and get answers for all your questions!
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Master's Study in Gender Studies at LSE - Virtual Graduate Open Events
Attend our LSE Virtual Graduate Open Events to find out more about graduate study at LSE.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Interested in a MSc in Gender Studies? 🤔
Join our Virtual Graduate Open Eveny this Wednesday, meet faculty, staff and alumni and get answers for all your questions!
Sign up now! ⬇️
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Join our Virtual Graduate Open Eveny this Wednesday, meet faculty, staff and alumni and get answers for all your questions!
Sign up now! ⬇️
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
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Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship - a postdoctoral fellowship to join us, deadline 8 January @UofGSociology.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Assistant (Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship)
Job Purpose This postdoctoral writing fellowship has been established in recognition of Neil Davidson’s enduring work as historian, theorist, teacher and activist. The fellowship is intended to sup...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship - a postdoctoral fellowship to join us, deadline 8 January @UofGSociology.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
It’s almost become a prerequisite for the office of Home Secretary to demonstrate prowess at the cruelty olympics.
How far and how high can one fly the cruelty flag? That’s the prerequisite.
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How far and how high can one fly the cruelty flag? That’s the prerequisite.
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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
It’s almost become a prerequisite for the office of Home Secretary to demonstrate prowess at the cruelty olympics.
How far and how high can one fly the cruelty flag? That’s the prerequisite.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How far and how high can one fly the cruelty flag? That’s the prerequisite.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Memory studies scholar, Michael Rothberg, adeptly deploys an analytic forged in another discipline (activism, law, sociology). Known for conceptualising the helpful frame of 'multidirectional memory' (2009), his 2019 book reads 'implicated subject' through lens of Black feminism & intersectionality.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Memory studies scholar, Michael Rothberg, adeptly deploys an analytic forged in another discipline (activism, law, sociology). Known for conceptualising the helpful frame of 'multidirectional memory' (2009), his 2019 book reads 'implicated subject' through lens of Black feminism & intersectionality.
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’.
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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
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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 ⬇️
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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 ⬇️
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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…
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It’s always about how to think about the bigger picture, i.e. most of the world…
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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?
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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”.
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Mexican women outraged by public sexual assault on their president
‘Humiliating’ groping of Claudia Sheinbaum by drunken man prompts widespread condemnation
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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”.
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Our student Mahnoor Omer featured in The Guardian on her work challenging Pakistan’s ‘period tax’ ⬇️
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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’ ⬇️
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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
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🥂 Drinks reception after the event!
🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social
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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
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🥂 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.
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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.
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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
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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...
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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
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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.
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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”.
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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”.
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@rafeefz.bsky.social
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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
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➡️ 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 🌳