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Dr Dorothy Kwek

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Available for postgraduate supervision

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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

2019

2018

2017

2015

2014

Articles

Book sections

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.

 

Contact Details

Email KwekD@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29206 88825
Campuses Law Building, Room 3.10, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX