Staff

Su-ming Khoo

Lecturer

Project Leader, Development Education and Research Network

PhD (Sociology and Social Policy) Queen’s University, Belfast
BA (Anthropology and Geography) 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

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

SP404 Development and Change
SP695 Social and Political Context of International Public Advocacy and Activism
SP595 Neocolonialism and the Politics of Development
SP599 Ecology and Colonialism
SP129/130 Key Ideas in Sociology and Politics and Problems in Sociology and Politics

Research Interests

Current research interests include contested meanings of development and globalization; development alternatives from the perspectives of sustainability, rights and citizenship; The Right to Development and Right to Health, global citizenship, public advocacy and public goods, development education and the globalization(s) of higher education.

Selected Publications

Khoo, S (forthcoming 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

This article examines global flows of hazardous waste which reflect political structures and struggles within, and between, developed and less developed countries. The ‘new mobilities paradigm’ is tested using cases of protest in Malaysia and East Germany, showing that greater attention should be paid to the politics of (im)mobilisations.

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 Issue, pp 18-34.

This article maps out recent trends in higher education, comparing and contrasting four emerging priorities: research and educational collaboration; development cooperation, educational marketization and charity/ philanthropy. It examines the relevance of development education to these transformations, and suggests that development education can critically engage through the lens of human rights.

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, UK 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 Issue 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

Liam Leonard (2006) The Galway Waste Crisis and Environmental Protest - A case study of Galway for Safe Environment Anti-Incineration Protest

MLitt

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

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