Toby CarrollÂ
Associate Professor
Southeast Asian Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Toby's research concentrates on the political economy of development, with a particular geographical focus upon Asia. He has published in journals such as Journal of Contemporary Asia, Globalizations, Development and Change, Pacific Review, Asian Studies Review and Antipode. He is the author of Delusions of Development: the World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010; reviewed in International Studies Review and Journal of Contemporary Asia). He has edited or co-edited numerous special issues of journals and is co-editor (with Darryl Jarvis) of The Politics of Marketising Asia (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2014; reviewed in Pacific Affairs and Journal of Contemporary Asia), The Financialisation of Development in Asia (Routledge, May 2015), and Markets and Development: Civil Society, Citizens and the Politics of Neoliberalism (Routledge, December 2015). Toby has another jointly edited volume (with Darryl Jarvis), Beyond the Developmental State: Disembedding Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), in press. He also co-edits (with Darryl Jarvis, Kelly Gerard and Paul Cammack) the Palgrave book series, Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy, is a Co-editor of Journal of Contemporary Asia, a Thematic Editor (Political Economy and International Politics) for Asian Studies Review, an Associate Editor for Journal of Labor and Society and sits on the editorial board of Contemporary Politics and the editorial review board of the Rowman and Littlefield series, Transforming Capitalism.
Research Interest
social commentary-oriented photography.
Publications
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Asia after the Developmental State: Disembedding Autonomy, (edited with Darryl S.L. Jarvis), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming July 2017), part of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy.
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Delusions of Development: The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia (Palgrave: October 2010). Long-listed for the British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group’s Annual Book Prize 2011). Reviewed in International Studies Review (vol. 14, no. 3) by Neil Englehart and Journal of Contemporary Asia (vol. 41, no. 4) by Kosmas Tsokhas.