His research agenda explores the political, social, and geographical exclusions that neoliberalisation has engendered, particularly in post-transitional Cambodia, where he emphasises the spatialities of violence and power. Simon’s books include The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Towards Spatial Emancipation (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), The Discourse of Neoliberalism: An Anatomy of a Powerful Idea (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Violent Neoliberalism: Development, Discourse and Dispossession in Cambodia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), andCambodia’s Neoliberal Order: Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space (Routledge, 2010). Simon serves as a co-editor of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies and for the Transforming Capitalism book series published by Rowman & Littlefield.