Manjeet Ramgotra is a Senior Lecturer in Political Thought, Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London. Manjeet is an Independent Scholar Fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation, affiliated with the Department of Politics at QMUL. Her research chronicles a history of republicanism extending from classical European to twentieth-century anti-colonial political thought on which she has published several articles. She is a strong advocate of decolonising the curriculum, and has co-edited a book on Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education (Routledge, 2021) as well as written blogposts and articles on this subject. Currently, she is working on a project on post-colonial republicanism in India. Manjeet was recently appointed to the Quality Assurance Agency Advisory Board to rewrite the Politics and IR benchmark statement, and is a Trustee on the Political Studies Association executive committee.

Simon Choat is Assosciate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Kingston University London. He is the author of Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze (Continuum, 2010) and Marx's 'Grundrisse: A Reader's Guide' (Bloomsbury, 2016). He has published articles on, amongst other topics, neoliberalism, contemporary anarchism, the philosophers Ernesto Laclau and Michael Sandel, and the theories of the 'new materialists' such as Bruno Latour. He has been teaching political theory for nearly 20 years. He has published research on decolonising the political theory curriculum and is currently collaborating on a comparative study of Politics and Economics curricula at UK universities. He is a member of the Political Economy Research Group at Kingston University and is co-convener of the Political Studies Association specialist group on Political Thought.

• I. Boundaries of the Political


• 1: Simon Choat and Manjeet Ramgotra: Introduction


• 2: Patrizia Longo: Plato, Socrates and Sojourner Truth


• 3: Manjeet Ramgotra: Aristotle and bell hooks


• 4: Deepshikha Shahi: Kautilya


• II. Social Contract Theory and its Critics


• 5: Signy Gutnick-Allen: Thomas Hobbes


• 6: Caroline Williams: Baruch de Spinoza


• 7: Hagar Kotef: John Locke


• 8: Allauren Forbes: Mary Astell


• 9: Peter Hallward: Jean-Jacques Rousseau


• 10: Terrell Carver: Carole Pateman and Charles Mills


• III. Liberal Modernity and Colonial Domination


• 11: Manjeet Ramgotra: Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu


• 12: Inder S. Marwah: John Stuart Mill


• 13: Simon Choat: Karl Marx


• 14: Willow Verkerk: Friedrich Nietzsche


• 15: Ayesha Omar: Sayyid Qutb


• 16: Edward W. Said, Rahul Rao


• IV. Freedom and Revolution


• 17: Alan Coffee: Catharine Macaulay and Edmund Burke


• 18: Robbie Shilliam: C. L. R. James


• 19: Kei Hiruta: Hannah Arendt


• 20: Viren Murthy: Zhang Taiyan


• V. Inclusion and Equality


• 21: Ashley Dodsworth: Mary Wollstonecraft


• 22: Neus Torbisco-Casals: Iris Marion Young


• 23: Varun Uberoi: Bhikhu Parekh


• 24: Nikita Dhawan: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak


• VI. Violence, Power, and Resistance


• 25: Yves Winter: Niccolo Machiavelli


• 26: Ruth Kinna: Emma Goldman


• 27: James Casas Klausen: Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi


• 28: Keally McBride: Frantz Fanon


• VII. The Liberal Self and Black Consciousness


• 29: Stella Sandford: Immanuel Kant


• 30: Kiara Gilbert and Karen Salt: Frederick Douglass


• 31: Elvira Basevich: W. E. B. Dubois


• 32: Maeve McKeown: John Rawls


• VIII. Sex and Sexuality


• 33: Paul Patton: Michel Foucault


• 34: Victoria Margree: Shulamith Firestone


• 35: Manjeet Ramgotra: Angela Davis


• 36: Clare Woodford: Judith Butler


• IX. The Environment, Human, and Non-Human


• 37: Eva-Maria Nag: Dipesh Chakrabarty


• 38: Claire Colebrook: Donna Haraway


• 39: Esme G. Murdock: Indigenous ecologies