Sumi Madhok
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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
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I think of the Executed Renaissance, murderous Soviet purges of whole generations of intellectuals from Ukraine across Belarus, Georgia and Qazaqstan… and I think of how little this epistemicidal necropolitics bothered anyone outside the affected societies, including many leading decolonial thinkers
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Yes, that’s so right. I’m reading him too and I like his thinking on complicity and being implicated outside of binary frames. This also reminds me a little of Iris Young’s ideas on structural justice but his is a different project, of course.
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Congratulations, Paul.
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Trying again:
Cetinkaya, H. (2025). Breaking free from ‘honour’: namûs, epistemic (in)justice, and the colonial politics of translation. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 32(2), 115-129. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

She also has a book coming out on the legal imaginaries of Rojava.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ah, you must read the wonderful Hasret Cetinkaya on Rojava, Öcalan and feminist honour/ agency/justice. This deals either broader questions but is a very good piece: doi.org/10.1177/1350...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by Sumi Madhok
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