Toby Carroll

Dr. Toby Carroll is a Senior Research Fellow at CAG, where he runs the Centre’s large ‘New Approaches to Building Markets in Asia’ research project. His scholarly work has largely focused upon the World Bank and the political economy of development policy more generally, with a particular emphasis upon development agency efforts towards ‘building’ the market state and market society. Toby has extensive fieldwork experience in Southeast and Central Asia and has published in leading journals such as Journal of Contemporary Asia, Development and Change, Pacific Review and Antipode. He is also the author of Delusions of Development: the World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010), which was nominated for the 2011 BISA IPEG prize .Toby is a regular contributor in the international press and has published opinion pieces in The Age, The Bangkok Post, The Nation, The Straits Times, The Jakarta Globe and The Canberra Times. He received his PhD from the Asia Research Centre/School of Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University.

Media Expertise

• The World Bank; development issues
• Southeast Asian Regionalism
• The Politics of Transnational Oil and Gas Pipelines.

 

Education

• Ph.D. Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia
• Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), Murdoch University, Australia

 

Contact Details

   (65) 6516 4203

 

   tcarroll@nus.edu.sg

 

Publications

• Books

  Delusions of Development: The World Bank and the post-Washington

  Consensus in Southeast Asia (Palgrave, October 2010).

• Journal articles and book chapters

  ‘New approaches to opening markets: Neoliberal risk mitigation, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and its impact’, Antipode (forthcoming).

  ‘Pipelines, Crisis and Capital: Understanding the Contested Regionalism of Southeast Asia’ (co-authored with Benjamin Sovacool), Pacific Review vol. 23, no. 5  (December 2010), pp. 625-647

  ‘Pembangunan Sosial sebagai “Kuda Troya” Neoliberal’, Prisma (Vol. 29, No. 3), July 2010.

  ‘Social Development as Neoliberal Trojan Horse: The World Bank and the Kecamatan Development Program in Indonesia’, Development and Change vol. 40, no. 3 (May 2009).

  ‘Attempting Illiberalism: The World Bank and the Embedding of Neoliberal Good Governance in the Philippines’, in Richard Robison and Wil Hout eds, Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development, (Routledge, 2009).

  ‘Good Governance and Security: The Limits of Australia’s New Aid Programme’, (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri), Journal of Contemporary Asia, November 2007.

  ‘Why Development Requires less Nuance and More Class: a Response to Patrick Kilby’, (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri), Australian Journal of International Affairs, August 2007.

• Working Papers

  ‘Pipelines, Participatory Development and the Regionalism of the Caucasus’, Working Paper, Centre on Asia and Globalisation (August 2009).

  ‘Contested Regionalism in Southeast Asia: the Politics of the trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline Project’, (co-authored with Benjamin Sovacool), Centre on Asia and Globalisation Working Paper Series, Working Paper 002, September 2008.

  ‘Auctioning off Manila’s Water Services: Market Extension, the World Bank and Socio-institutional Neoliberalism’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper Series, no. 138 (October 2006), Reprinted on Australian Policy Online (November 28, 2006).

• Op-eds

  ‘The Politics of the Financial Crisis’, (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri), The Bangkok Post (October 7, 2008), reposted on Australian Policy Online (October 9, 2008),

  ‘Can we Proclaim Doha Dead Yet?’, (co-authored with Tess del Rosario), The Inquirer (August, 5, 2008).

  ‘New Solutions Needed for an Age of Globalised Crisis’, The Nation (May 10, 2008).

  “Market no Answer to Climate Change’, (co-authored with Benjamin Sovacool), The Straits Times, (February 28, 2008).

  ‘Our Parlous Region’, The Age (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri). (January 13, 2007). Reprinted on Australian Policy Online, January 16, 2007

  ‘Aid Misses the Mark’, The Age (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri). Reprinted on Australian Policy Online (June 8, 2006).

• Others

  ‘Governance and trans-national Pipelines’ (with Benjamin Sovacool), Rapporteur, October 2009.

  ‘AusAID’s White Paper and the Limits of Market-led Development’, (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri), ASIAVIEW (August 2006), Vol. 16, No. 1.

  ‘The Politics of AusAID’s White Paper’, co-authored with Shahar Hameiri, (September 2006). ‘Responses to AusAID’s White Paper’, The Australian Institute of International Affairs’.

  ‘The World Bank and the Politics of Development’, ASIAVIEW, (October, 2004), Vol. 14, No. 1.