Dr Dorothy Kwek
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Dorothy Kwek
Lecturer in Political Theory
Overview
Ph.D. in Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Prior to joining Cardiff University, I was Wissenschaftlichermitarbeiterin (teaching and research) at Universität Konstanz, Germany.
Publication
2025
- Bennett, J., Connolly, W. E., Kwek, D. and Grear, A. 2025. Eco-social new-materialist reflections for the Anthropocene. In: Grear, A. and Kwek, D. eds. New Materialist Tangles in and for the Anthropocene. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 15-24., (10.4337/9781035348381.00005)
- Grear, A. and Kwek, D. eds. 2025. New Materialist tangles in and for the Anthropocene. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
2019
- Kwek, D. H. B. 2019. Critique of imperial reason: Lessons from the Zhuangzi. Dao 18(3), pp. 411-433. (10.1007/s11712-019-09673-4)
2018
- Kwek, D. H. B. 2018. The importance of being useless: A cross-cultural contribution to the new materialisms from Zhuangzi. Theory, Culture and Society 35(7-8), pp. 21-48. (10.1177/0263276418806381)
- Kwek, D. H. B. and Seyfert, R. 2018. Affect matters: Strolling through heterological ecologies. Public Culture 30(1), pp. 35-59. (10.1215/08992363-4189155)
2017
- Kwek, D. H. B. 2017. Changing referents: Learning across space and time in China and the west [Book Review]. Contemporary Political Theory 16(4), pp. 588-591. (10.1057/s41296-017-0092-4)
2015
- Kwek, D. H. B. and Seyfert, R. 2015. Affekt. Macht. Dinge: Die Aufteilung sozialer Sensorien in heterologischen Gesellschaften. In: Göbel, H. K. and Prinz, S. eds. Die Sinnlichkeit des Sozialen: Wahrnehmung und materielle Kultur. Sozialtheorie De Gruyter, pp. 123-146., (10.14361/9783839425565-005)
- Kwek, D. H. B. 2015. Power and the multitude: A Spinozist view. Political Theory 43(2), pp. 155-184. (10.1177/0090591714537080)
2014
- Kwek, D. 2014. Daisy Delogu Theorizing the ideal sovereign: The rise and fall of the French vernacular royal biography [Book Review]. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 24(3), pp. 445-447. (10.1017/S0829320100010152)
Articles
- Kwek, D. H. B. 2019. Critique of imperial reason: Lessons from the Zhuangzi. Dao 18(3), pp. 411-433. (10.1007/s11712-019-09673-4)
- Kwek, D. H. B. 2018. The importance of being useless: A cross-cultural contribution to the new materialisms from Zhuangzi. Theory, Culture and Society 35(7-8), pp. 21-48. (10.1177/0263276418806381)
- Kwek, D. H. B. and Seyfert, R. 2018. Affect matters: Strolling through heterological ecologies. Public Culture 30(1), pp. 35-59. (10.1215/08992363-4189155)
- Kwek, D. H. B. 2017. Changing referents: Learning across space and time in China and the west [Book Review]. Contemporary Political Theory 16(4), pp. 588-591. (10.1057/s41296-017-0092-4)
- Kwek, D. H. B. 2015. Power and the multitude: A Spinozist view. Political Theory 43(2), pp. 155-184. (10.1177/0090591714537080)
- Kwek, D. 2014. Daisy Delogu Theorizing the ideal sovereign: The rise and fall of the French vernacular royal biography [Book Review]. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 24(3), pp. 445-447. (10.1017/S0829320100010152)
Book sections
- Bennett, J., Connolly, W. E., Kwek, D. and Grear, A. 2025. Eco-social new-materialist reflections for the Anthropocene. In: Grear, A. and Kwek, D. eds. New Materialist Tangles in and for the Anthropocene. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 15-24., (10.4337/9781035348381.00005)
- Kwek, D. H. B. and Seyfert, R. 2015. Affekt. Macht. Dinge: Die Aufteilung sozialer Sensorien in heterologischen Gesellschaften. In: Göbel, H. K. and Prinz, S. eds. Die Sinnlichkeit des Sozialen: Wahrnehmung und materielle Kultur. Sozialtheorie De Gruyter, pp. 123-146., (10.14361/9783839425565-005)
Books
- Grear, A. and Kwek, D. eds. 2025. New Materialist tangles in and for the Anthropocene. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Research
My interdisciplinary research covers the following areas :
- decolonial and feminist STS approaches to political ecology and multispecies justice;
- comparative political theory, with a focus on Daoism, especially the Zhuangzi;
- affect theories and new materialisms, and other inspirations from Benedict Spinoza
Teaching
I teach courses on comparative (or, to use a problematic term, "non-Western") political theory, as well as interdisciplinary courses on specific themes including race and political ecology.
Courses I convene & teach:
The Barbarians Are Coming!: Cross-Cultural Political Theory (UG)
The End of the World As We Know It (Radical Political Theory) (UG)
Contemporary Political Theory (PG)
Courses I co-teach :
Introduction to Political Theory (UG)
Supervisions
Decolonial/postcolonial theory
Political ecology
Politics and philosophy of race
Comparative political theory (especially Daoism)
Benedict Spinoza.