University of Sunderland

DR DONG-SOOK GILLS

SENIOR LECTURER, PROGRAMME LEADER FOR FdA HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dong-Sook Gills received her doctorate in Sociology from Sheffield University with a thesis on rural women's labour in the context of national development in South Korea.   She organised and coordinated a British Council funded research project on globalisation and home-based contract work amongst poor urban women in India, based on four major cities including Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, and Chennai.  She has held a visiting professorship in the Dept. of Sociology, University of Hawaii, USA, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.  She is an affiliate faculty member of the Globalization Research Centre, Florida, USA, an International Advisory Council member of TODA Institute for Peace and Policy Research, and International Board member of the Association for Asian Union, India.  She has been a frequent reviewer for academic journals in the field and has served on the Editorial Board of the International Studies Review, of the International Studies Association. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENTS

Globalisation and the Development of Capitalism;

Global Poverty and Inequality;

Globalisation and Labour;

East-Asian Studies.

CURRENT WORK

Dong-Sook Gills is currently working on the inter-dynamic processes of the globalisation of production and trans-border movements of labour.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH REPORTS

Women and Work in Globalising Asia (with N. Piper), 2001, Routledge.

Globalisation of Production and Women in Asia, May 2002, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Globalisation and National Capitalism in South Korea, (with B. Gills) 2004, in Where are National Capitalism Now?, Palgrave.

The Political Economy of Globalizaton and Grass-Roots Movement, 2007,  in , A. McGrew & N. Poku (eds),  Globalization, Development and Human Security, Polity Press.

Rural Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development, 1999, Macmillan.

Globalisation and National Capitalism in South Korea, (with B. Gills) 2004, in Where are National Capitalism Now?, Palgrave.