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Sumi Madhok is a professor at the London School of Economics, specializing in feminist political theory and political theory. She brings an ethnographic sensibility to her teaching and scholarship, focusing on autonomy, agency, human rights, global justice, coloniality, and transnational activism. Her recent book, 'Vernacular Rights Cultures: Politics, Origins, Human Rights, and Gendered Struggles for Justice' published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, critiques Eurocentrism and develops new theoretical frameworks for understanding social sciences. Professor Madhok has received numerous accolades including the 2022 Susan Strange Book Prize and the 2022 Sussex International Theory Prize. She has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and is dedicated to teaching, receiving multiple awards for her excellence in education at LSE. Her ongoing research interests include anti-imperial epistemic justice and the conceptual diversity of knowledge production. Currently, she co-supervises PhD students in the Department of Government, while also contributing to various international academic journals as an editorial board member. Her works challenge conventional frameworks and engage critical analyses of agency in oppressive contexts.
London School of Economics and Political Science • London
Head of the Department of Gender Studies and engaged in teaching and research in feminist political theory.
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