| Post: | Research Fellow |
| Other posts: | Lecturer in International Relations (Development Studies - CDE) |
| Rcuk Reseach Fellow (Migration) | |
| Location: | Arts B B368 |
| Email: | K.Gray@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8947 |
| UK: | (01273) 678947 |
| International: | +44 1273 678947 |
Biography
I did an undergraduate degree in Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds, and studies for an MA in International Studies and doctoral research at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I have also previously been an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Durham. My doctoral research engaged with contemporary debates surrounding the relationship between labour and globalisation. Specifically, it explored the effect that processes of late-democratisation and neoliberal globalisation have had on labour union strategies in South Korea, and at the processes of the incorporation into the new institutions of neoliberal governance.
Role
RCUK Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations.Research
My current research involves a project that examines the role of private actors in the transformation of global capitalism. Specifically, this involves examining the inter-relationship between the rise of East Asian labour as a social force and the formation of the East Asian regional political economy.
Teaching
MA Module: East Asia in the International Political Economy (988M9).
Undergraduate Year 2: International Political Economy II: Origins, Evolution and Contemporary Issues (L2025).
Publications
Kevin Gray "The Global Uprising of Labour? The Korean Labour Movement and Neoliberal Social Corporatism" in Globalizations (5:3, 2008), pp. 483-499.
Kevin Gray "Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation" ( London : Routledge, 2008).
Kevin Gray "Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Polyarchy: the rise of the political left in Korea " in Third World Quarterly (29:1,2008), pp. 107-124.
Kevin Gray "From Human to Workers' Rights?: the Emergence of a Migrant Workers' Union Movement in Korea " in Global Society (21:2, 2007).
Kevin Gray "Migrant Labor and Civil Society Relations in South Korea " in Asian and Pacific Journal of Migration (15:3, 2006).
Kevin Gray "Kyegup yiha ui kyeguburoso ui han'guk ui yijunodongja" [ Korea 's migrant workers: A class beneath a class] in Journal of Asiatic Studies (47:2,2004).