Dr Simon Choat
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Economics
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Associate Professor
- Email:
- s.choat@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics. I joined the Department of Economics in 2021 from the Department of Politics at Kingston, having previously taught at the University of Reading and Queen Mary, University of London, from where I received my PhD. I am the author of two books - Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and Marx's 'Grundrisse': A Reader's Guide - and the co-editor of Rethinking Political Thinkers, published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
Qualifications
- PhD Politics, Queen Mary, University of London
- MA Political Philosophy, University of York
- BA History and Politics, University of Warwick
Domains
I have developed and taught on various modules at Kingston, with topics including Marxism, neoliberalism, and the history of political thought.
As Head of the Department of Economics, I do not currently teach on any modules, but I do lead personal tutorials, supervise PhD students, and lead curricula development.
My work on decolonising the curriculum has been presented at various national and international conferences and published in the journal Politics (see list of publications in 'Research').
I was the lead organiser of the School of Law, Social & Behavioural Science's Themed Week in 2019 (https://blogs.kingston.ac.uk/kul/2019/12/23/themed-week2019/).
Qualifications
- Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy
Much of my research is informed by Marxism. Topics have included: contemporary anarchism; a critique of Ernesto Laclau; the theories of 'new materialists' such as Bruno Latour; the work of the American philosopher Michael Sandel; a comparison of rival approaches to understanding neoliberalism; and decolonising political theory. You can find me on Google Scholar here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=osQGm5gAAAAJ.
I am currently working on three projects in particular: a project on decolonising Politics and Economics curricula; an article on socialism, Chantal Mouffe, and Thomas Piketty; and a paper on realism and materialism as methodologies in political theory.
I am a member of Kingston's Political Economy Research Group and on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Global Discourse.
Funding
- 2020 Independent Social Research Foundation Flexible Grants for Small Groups - £4390
- 2020 UK Political Studies Association Pushing the Boundaries - £2000
Scholarly affiliations
- Co-convenor of Political Studies Association Political Thought specialist group
- Executive Committee member of Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought
- Member of UK Political Studies Association
I am Head of the Department of Economics, with responsibility for the strategic direction for the department, ensuring its cohesiveness and collegiality, line management of staff, oversight of admissions in the department, improving the quality of its teaching, and leading the development of courses.
In 2021 I was elected Faculty representative to Academic Council, the highest academic authority in the university.
I have served as a member of the self-assessment team for the School of Law, Social & Behavioural Science's successful Athena SWAN application, drafting one of the sections.
University responsibilities
- Head of Department of Economics
- Member of Academic Council
Publications
Rethinking political thinkers
(2023). Oxford: (Oxford University Press)
Marx's 'Grundrisse': A reader's guide
Choat, Simon (2016). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury Academic)
Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze
Choat, Simon (2010). London, U.K.: (Continuum)
Decolonising economics and politics curricula in UK universities
Choat, Simon, Wolf, Christina and O'Neill, Siobhan, 2023, Studies in Higher Education
Decolonising the political theory curriculum
Choat, Simon, 2021, Politics (41), 3, pp 404-420
The iron cage of enterprise or the restoration of class power? Approaches to understanding neoliberalism
Choat, Simon, 2019, Political Studies Review (17), 4, pp 416-427
Science, agency, and ontology : a historical-materialist response to new materialism
Choat, Simon, 2018, Political Studies (66), 4, pp 1027-1042
Everything for sale? Neoliberalism and the limits of Michael Sandel's philosophical critique of markets
Choat, Simon, 2018, New Political Science (40), 1, pp 1-14
Marx for his times. Book Review of: 'Karl Marx : greatness and illusion' by Gareth Stedman Jones
Choat, Simon, 2018, Global Intellectual History (3), 3, pp 282-291
Tuition fees and the neoliberal university
Choat, Simon, 2017, Renewal (25), 3-4, pp 138-144
From political topographies to political logics : post-Marxism and historicity
Rekret, Paul and Choat, Simon, 2016, Constellations: An International Journal Of Critical And Democratic Theory (23), 2, pp 281-291
Marxism and anarchism in an age of neoliberal crisis
Choat, Simon, 2016, Capital and Class (40), 1, pp 95-109
Book review of: ' An inquiry into modes of existence : an anthropology of the Moderns ' by Bruno Latour
Choat, Simon, 2016, Global Discourse (6), 1-2, pp 136-139
Politics, power and the state: a Marxist response to postanarchism
Choat, Simon, 2013, Journal of Political Ideologies (18), 3, pp 328-347
Author's reply to reviews of 'Marx through post-structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze' by Simon Choat
Choat, Simon, 2011, Global Discourse (2), 1
Postanarchism from a Marxist perspective
Choat, Simon, 2010, Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies (2010), 1, pp 51-71
Deleuze, Marx and the politicisation of philosophy
Choat, Simon, 2009, Deleuze Studies (3), suppleme, pp 8-27
Introduction
Choat, Simon and Ramgotra, Manjeet (2023). In: Ramgotra, Manjeet, (eds.) and Choat, Simon, (eds.), Rethinking political thinkers. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Karl Marx
Choat, Simon (2023). In: Ramgotra, Manjeet, (eds.) and Choat, Simon, (eds.), Rethinking political thinkers. Oxford: Oxford University Press
A contribution to the critique of political economy (1859)
Choat, Simon (2018). In: Diamanti, Jeff, (eds.), Pendakis, Andrew, (eds.) and Szeman, Imre, (eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to Marx. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury, pp 57-62
Poststructuralism
Choat, Simon (2014). In: Gibbons, Michael T., (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell
Teleology
Choat, Simon (2014). In: Gibbons, Michael T., (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell
From Marxism to poststructuralism
Choat, Simon (2013). In: Dillet, Benoit, (eds.), Mackenzie, Iain, (eds.) and Porter, Robert, (eds.), The Edinburgh companion to poststructuralism. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press
Gallery of work
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Marx's 'Grundrisse': A Reader's Guide
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Rethinking Political Thinkers
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Marx Through Post-Structuralism
