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Dr Su-Ming Khoo
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Biography:
| BA Anthropology and Geography (First Class) University College London, UK PhD Sociology and Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast, UK |
Research Interests
| Key words: Human rights and development, Globalization, International Development theory and practice, Development Alternatives, Political Economy, ecology, feminism, colonialism, imperialism, postcolonial theory, development education, progressive education. My research and teaching promote knowledge and enquiry concerning different meanings of globalization and development and the contestation of those meanings along North/South lines. It addresses the challenge of development after ‘post-development’. My research and course material engages with development theory and political economy of development, with an emphasis on alternative approaches including human development, human rights and sustainable development.
I have a strong research interest in, and commitment to public scholarship and Development Education. From 2005-2009, I was the Project Leader of the Development Education and Research Network, which worked to sustainably mainstream development education in higher education through professional disciplines such as nursing, medicine, engineering, and human rights. As Vice-Dean for Internationalization in the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, I seek to advance research-informed ethical internationalization and engagement with international development and human rights in the best interests of the College’s academic work.
I am a strongly inter-and trans-disciplinary scholar, with a particular interest in bridging the fields of human rights, development, and education. I address issues of active citizenship, cultural difference, decolonization, ecology, democratization of knowledge and advocacy and activism, supporting humanistic and ecological development alternatives. I work collaboratively through the Centre for Environment, Development and Sustainability (CEDS) which brings the Sustainable Development and Governance Research Cluster in the School of Political Science and Sociology, together with researchers in Geography, Economics, and other Humanities disciplines. I am a reflective teacher committed to high quality, progressive third and fourth level teaching. I work to advance public scholarship and public education. My teaching and research are strongly integrated and all taught courses are research-informed or research-based, aiming to share my own research interests and findings as well as to train students as future researchers and contributors to knowledge. I regularly provide development education, human rights and sustainability education to NGOs, student groups and the general public; as well as contributing to research programmes in other universities and in other disciplines in NUIG such as Nursing and Engineering |
Book Chapters
| Khoo, S. (1998) 'Think tanks and intellectual participation in Malaysian discourses of development' In: Stone, D.; Denham, A.; Garnett, M (eds). Think Tanks Across Nations. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (1999) 'Envisioning the Malaysian Nation: Ethnic nationalism or corporate capitalism' In: Brehony, K.; Rassool, N (eds). Nationalisms Old and New. Basingstoke: Macmillan. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2004) 'Think Tanks and Malaysian Development' In: in Denham, Andrew and Diane Stone (eds) Think Tank Traditions. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2007) 'Globalization, terror and the future of ‘development’ - citizenship beyond bare life?' In: Mullard, M.; Cole, B (eds). in Mullard, M. & Cole, B. (Eds). Globalization, Citizenship and the War on Terror. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. [Details] |
| Khoo, S (2011) 'Re-routing the postcolonial university: educating for citizenship in managed times' In: Vanessa Andreotti and Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza (eds). in Vanessa Andreotti and Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza (Eds). Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education London and new York: Routledge/ Taylor and Francis. New York and Abingdon: Routledge. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Khoo, S (2001) 'Women’s Education - for what?’ Review of ‘Gender, Education and Development’ edited by Christine Heward and S. Bunwaree. Irish Journal of Feminist Studies'. Irish Journal Of Feminist Studies, 4 (1):116-121. [Details] |
| Khoo, S (2003) 'Feminist Ethics and Difference’ Review Essay on ‘Differences That Matter’ by Sara Ahmed and ‘Ecofeminist Philosophy’ by Karen Warren. Irish Journal of Feminist Studies'. Irish Journal Of Feminist Studies, 5 (1-2):144-149. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2005) 'The Millennium Development Goals - A critical discussion'. TROCAIRE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, :43-56. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2006) 'Development Education, Citizenship and Civic engagement at Third level and beyond - some challenges for the 'mainstreaming' agenda'. POLICY AND PRACTICE: A DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION REVIEW, 1 (3). [Details] |
Khoo, S., Healy, C.; Coate, K. (2007) 'Development Education and Research at third level in Ireland - contradictory or complementary. Development's Futures Healy'. Policy And Practice: A Development Education Review, (5):5-19.  [Details] |
| Khoo, S. & Lehane, O. (2008) 'Globalisation and the re-imagination of research, teaching and learning in Irish Higher education'. POLICY AND PRACTICE: A DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION REVIEW, 7 :18-34. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2008) 'Review of Dominelli, Lena ‘Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World'. Critical Social Policy, 28 (1):98-101. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. & Leyden, K (2009) 'Heritage, Sustainability, and Healthy Communities: Thinking about the Future Today'. Heritage Outlook Winter 2009-Spring 2010, :32-37. [Details] |
| KHOO, S.M. & Rau, H (2009) 'Movements, mobilities and the politics of hazardous waste'. Environmental Politics, 18 :960-980. [DOI] [Details] |
| Khoo, S (2010) 'Review of Haggard, S & Kaufman R, Development, Democracy and Welfare States'. Critical Social Policy, 30 (1). [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2010) 'The Right to Food: legal, political and human implications for a food security agenda'. TROCAIRE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, :33-50. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2010) 'Review of Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers. History Ireland'. History Ireland, . [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2011) 'Ethical Globalisation or Privileged Internationalisation? Exploring global citizenship and internationalisation in Irish and Canadian universities'. Globalisation, Societies, Education, 9 (03-Apr):337-353. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2011) 'The shifting policy landscape of development education'. Policy And Practice: A Development Education Review, 13 :1-10. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2011) 'The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen'. Critical Social Policy, 31 (2):329-331. [Details] |
| Khoo, S (2012) 'Re-interpreting the citizen consumer: Alternative consumer activism and the rights to health and development'. Social Science & Medicine, 74 (1):14-19. [Details] |
Other Journals
| Khoo, S. (1998) 'Review of Clash of Cultures by Brian Fagan' Ethnic Conflict Digest 2 :4-5. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2000) 'Review of The Clash of Civilizations: Asian Responses, edited by Salim Rashid' Ethnic Conflict Digest 2 :24-24. [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2001) 'Review of Development Theory: Deconstructions/ Reconstructions ' Ethnic Conflict Digest 4 (2) . [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Khoo, S., Healy, C. (2007) Editor: Development's futures e-book Development's futures e-book [Details] |
| Khoo, S. (2007) A Tale of Two Tigers? Growth, Public Policy and Regional Models in Ireland and Malaysia Annual Conference on Development and Change [Details] |