Brian Charles

I primarily study discourses.    

My dissertation focuses on the development of post-independent Singapore's political economy from 1959-1980 in four interrelated spheres: law, the management of land use, the curtailment of labor power, and the accumulation and defense of state capital. 

My first book, A Genealogy of Populism (2026), studies transatlantic academic discourses on populism from 1892-2024.

I have broad interests in the political thought of Marx, Nietzsche, and Foucault. 

I received my previous degrees at the National University of Singapore, where I also taught full-time for several years.