Staff

Su-ming Khoo

Lecturer

Vice-Dean (Internationalization) College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies
Project Leader, Development Education and Research Network

2012 Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (NUI Galway)
1999 PhD in Sociology & Social Policy (Queen’s University)
1990 BA in Anthropology & Geography (First Class) (University College London)

Office: 320 Aras Moyola
Telephone: 353 (0)91 493643
Email: s.khoonuigalway.ie

Member of the Governance and Sustainable Development Research Cluster; Regulation Network

Profile

My research and teaching interests stem from an interest in different meanings of globalization and development and the contestation of those meanings along North/South lines and the challenge of development after 'post-development'. Most of 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 particular interest in issues of citizenship, culture, decolonization, ecology, democratization and knowledge advocacy within the political economy of development. I convene a PhD research group on human rights and development. Recent research also includes contesting globalization in, and through, higher education.

Teaching

Undergraduate
SP404 Development and Change
SP158/159/160 Introduction/Key Ideas/ Problems in Sociology & Politics

Postgraduate
LW 537 Human Rights and Development (L.LM. Econ. Social and Cultural Rights)
SP714  Development in International Context (MA Community Development)
FA 551/ SP695 Social and Political Context of International Public Advocacy and Activism (MA Public Advocacy and Activism)
SP595 Neocolonialism and the Politics of Development (MA Culture and Colonialism)

Supervision of long essays and minor dissertations for all 4 Masters programmes

Research Interests

• Contested meanings of development and globalization: sustainability, ecology, rights, citizenship, decolonization
• Human development and capabilities
• The Right to Development (Right to Food, Right to Health, Right to Education)
• Human rights, cultural diversity and pluralism
• Consumer activism, knowledge advocacy and activism
• Public goods and ethical globalization
• Higher education and public scholarship

Selected Publications

Khoo, S (Forthcoming 2013) Review Essay: Health justice and capabilities – a turning point for global health? International Sociology

Khoo, S (Forthcoming 2013) ’Sustainable development of what? Contesting global development concepts and measures’, in Fahy, F.  & Rau, H.  (Eds.) Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences. London, Thousand Oaks, Ca. and New Delhi: Sage, pp 143-180

Khoo, S (2012) ’Educating within Culture and Human Rights: What can a capabilities approach add?’ in Hashemi, K. and Briskman, L. (Eds.) NAM Year Book on Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: Cultures in Support of Humanity - Volume 1, Tehran: Non-aligned Movement Center for Human Rights and Cultural Diversity, pp. 444-75

Khoo, S (2012) ’The role of the citizen-consumer; Alternative consumer activism and the rights to health and development’, in Robertson, A. & Jones-Parry, R (Eds.) Commonwealth Health Partnerships 2012. Cambridge: Commonwealth Secretariat/Nexus strategic Publishing, pp 118-20

Khoo, S (2012) ’Re-routing the postcolonial university: educating for citizenship in managed times’ in Andreotti, V and de Souza, L (Eds). Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education London and New York: Routledge/ Taylor and Francis, pp 200-220

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

Khoo, S  (2011) ’The shifting policy landscape of development education’ Policy and Practice – a Development Education Review Vol 13, Autumn 2011 pp 1-10

Khoo, S (2011) ’Ethical Globalisation or Privileged Internationalisation? Exploring global citizenship and internationalisation in Irish and Canadian universities’ Globalisation, Societies, Education, 9: 3-4, 337-353

Khoo, S (2010) ’The Right to Food: legal, political and human implications for a food security agenda’. Trocaire Development Review 2010, 33-50

Khoo, S (2010) Review of Haggard, S & Kaufman R, Development, Democracy and Welfare States, Critical Social Policy 30 (1)

Khoo, S and Rau, H (2009) 'Movements, Mobilities and the Politics of Hazardous Waste' Environmental Politics Vol. 18, No. 6, 960-80.

Khoo, S and Lehane, O (2008) 'Globalisation and the re-imagination of research, teaching and learning in Irish Higher education' Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, pp 18-34.

Khoo, S (2007) 'A Tale of Two Tigers: Growth, Public Policy and Regional Models in Ireland and Malaysia' Policy Innovations, Policy Library Carnegie Council http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/policy_library/data/01449

Khoo, S. (2007) 'Globalization, terror and the future of "development": Citizenship beyond bare life?' In Maurice Mullard and Bankole Cole (eds.) Globalization, Citizenship and the War on Terror, Edward Elgar Publishers, pp 5-19

Khoo, S, Carol Healy and Kelly Coate (2007) 'Development Education and Development Research: Contradictory or complementary?' Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review 5 pp 189-211

Khoo, S. (2006) 'Development Education, Citizenship and Civic Engagement at Third Level and Beyond: Capacity Building for Development Education in Third level Education' Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review Vol 1 Issue 3 Special Issue on Citizenship pp 26-39

Khoo, S (2005) 'The Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Discussion' Trocaire Development Review April 2005 pp 43-56

Khoo, S (2004) 'Think Tanks and Malaysian Development' in Denham, Andrew and Diane Stone (eds) Think Tank Traditions Manchester: Manchester University Press pp 179-97

Khoo, S. (1999) 'Envisioning the Malaysian Nation: Ethnic nationalism or corporate capitalism?' in Kevin Brehony and Naz Rassool (eds.) Nationalisms Old and New. Basingstoke: Macmillan

Supervision of Research

PhD

Sarah Kollnig – (PhD 2011- , Galway Fellowship), The state of the North-South politics of development and environment after Brundtland

Clionadh O’Keeffe (PhD 2008-9 PT, 2010- , FT IRCHSS Andrew Grene Conflict Resolution Scholarship), Women’s Rights and Multi-level Governance in Post Conflict Timor-Leste: A Case Study in Engendering Transition

Chiara Costanzo (PhD PT 2009- ), Defining the right to a healthy environment: A rights based approach to environmental issues

Liam Leonard (PhD awarded 2006), The Galway Waste Crisis and Environmental Protest

Research Co-Supervision

Peter Mannion (Supervisor: Kelly Coate PhD 2011- ), From sector to system -­ A critical discourse analysis of the Irish higher education policies

Samir Mahmood (Supervisor Margaret Barry PhD 2010- ), Health Promotion Capacity Mapping in Developing Country Settings

Aura Lounasmaa (Supervisor Nata Duvvury PhD 2009- ), Women as symbols and agents of modernity: global and local narratives in Moroccan women's NGOs' advocacy and public awareness work

MLitt

Dervla McArt (2008), Time and Body Poverty in Contemporary Ireland: Concepts and Experiences

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