Author Archives: Bal Sokhi-Bulley

About Bal Sokhi-Bulley

Bal Sokhi-Bulley is Senior Lecturer in Law and Critical Theory at the University of Sussex. Her first monograph, Governing (Through) Rights, was published in 2016 (Hart Publishing) and gives a Foucauldian reading of rights as technologies of governmentality. She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled “Rights & Radical Friendship: Towards An Anti-Racist Politics of Refusal,” which explores her research interests in friendship, Sikh cosmopolitanism, and thinking ‘after’ rights. She is co-editor of Special Issue, After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics in International Journal of Human Rights (with Louiza Odysseos), 2023.

Seva as Radical Friendship: On Foucault, Spirituality, and the Farmers’ Protest

January 18, 2024 by
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Abstract: The Farmers’ Protest is now recognised as the longest protest movement in history and should concern everyone who eats. In this article, I examine how legal rights failed the farmers and how, to survive the year and a half long protest, they practiced a way of life that performed a relational right to nourishment. Through using concepts from radical Sikhi, namely seva and langar, I show how an ethics of seva produced radical friendship at sites of protest that countered state abandonment and neglect, Continue reading → Continue reading →