Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Author "Khoo, Su-Ming"
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Development Studies
Khoo, Su-Ming (Elsevier, 2015)This contribution identifies development as an emergent and contested key concept in the social and environmental sciences. Development studies describes a field that includes multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary ... -
Ethical dilemmas in the development-security nexus: A human development and capabilities approach
Khoo, Su-Ming (Centre for Global Education, 2019)The development-security nexus marks a paradigm shift for development, security and humanitarian practice, with implications for education and development education. This article explores zigzag changes, initially towards ... -
Growth, public policy and regional models in Ireland and Malaysia
Khoo, Su-Ming (2007-11)What exactly constitutes 'good governance' in a highly globalized economy? Developmental state theory suggests that high-growth "tiger" economies have "developmental" features and capabilities that other states lack, ... -
Health justice and capabilities: A turning point for global health?
Khoo, Su-Ming (2013)This essay discusses two important recent books on health justice and makes the case for their relevance to global health and to social and political mobilization for health reform. Health and Social Justice (Ruger 2010) ... -
Movements, mobilities and the politics of hazardous waste
Khoo, Su-Ming; Rau, Henrike (Taylor and Francis, 2009-11-11)Global flows of hazardous waste and waste management technologies are major sources of environmental contestation. They reflect political structures and struggles within, and between, developed and less developed countries. ... -
(Post) human rights, poverty and inequality: problems of algocracy, pharmocracy and chemocracy
Khoo, Su-Ming (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021-09)This chapter explores new questions for human rights in a context of extreme poverty and inequalities of income, wealth, political power and biological life. Minimalist and contradictory narratives of poverty and inequality ... -
Public goods: from market efficiency to democratic effectiveness
Khoo, Su-Ming (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2014)This contribution examines the concept of public goods,responding to calls to rethink public goods given a changedcontext (Desai, 2003: 73) and widening global scope (Kaulet al, 2003; Kaul, 2006). The first section explores ... -
Putting the 'public' back into public health
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Reimagining Research and Education in Higher Education - integrating scholarships for sustainable human development
Khoo, Su-Ming (Commonwealth Secretariat / Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2014-11-27)This contribution examines key intersections between development, higher education and research. It suggests that the interactions between these domains are neglected and argues that higher education s contribution needs ... -
The role of the citizen consumer: alternative consumer actvisim and the rights to health and development
Khoo, Su-Ming (Commonwealth Secretariat/ Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2012)This chapter draws on case-study research to show how networked consumer campaigns have shaped global health governance. It highlights the important, yet under-researched role of Southern health activism in mobilising ... -
Solidarity, equity and rights-based to health provision
Khoo, Su-Ming (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2015)This brief contribution addresses the central, but neglected principle of solidarity in universal health coverage reforms. Solidarity is the key to understanding rights-based approaches to health, while ensuring a good fit ... -
Strengthening Development Education Practice in the Higher Education Sector: Reimagining research
Khoo, Su-Ming (Palgrave, 2014-04)This chapter examines the case for development education research, explores the relationship between research and development education in the higher education sector and considers the implications for development education ... -
Surviving necropolitical developments amid democratic disinformation: A pandemic perspective from Brazil
Khoo, Su-Ming; Floss, Mayara (Bristol University Press, 2022-10-03)The global COVID-19 pandemic poses evolving dilemmas of disease, death, disability, and economic and socio-political inequalities and injustices, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to spread and evolve variants. This ... -
Sustainable knowledge transformation in and through higher education: a case for transdisciplinary leadership
Khoo, Su-Ming (UCL IOE Press, 2017-03-01)This article explores inter and transdisciplinarity, given the need for more complex, relevant and transformative knowledge to shift society toward more sustainable futures. It connects practical questions about economic, ...