Professor Tim Doyle

Title: Chair of Politics and International Relations in SPIRE
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Professor Timothy Doyle, B.A. Hons. (Melb), M.A. (Adel), Ph.D. (Griffith), is Chair of Politics and International Relations at Keele University in the United Kingdom, where he teaches Global Political Economy, Environmental Politics, Environment and Development, and The Global South. At Keele, he served as founding Head of the Research Centre for Politics, International Relations and Environment. In addition, he is also Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide in Australia, where he teaches Global Environmental Politics, and Global Political Economy. Also at Adelaide, he is Chair of the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre.


He has published widely in a diverse range of journals including Third World Quarterly, Geopolitics, Environmental Politics, Critical Social Policy, Social Movement Studies, Mobilization, Australian Journal of Political Science, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, Regional Social Issues, and Social Alternatives.


His most recent works include the books: Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia (Macmillan: Melbourne 1995); Environment and Politics with D. McEachern (Routledge: London and New York; three editions 1998, 2001, 2008, translated into Korean, Turkish and now Hindi); Green Power: the Environment Movement in Australia (University of New South Wales Press: Sydney 2001); Environmental Movements in Minority and Majority Worlds: A Global Perspective (Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London 2005); Beyond Borders: Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics, edited with B. Doherty (Routledge: London and New York 2008); and Crucible for Survival: Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region edited with M. Risely (Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London 2008).  


Current book contracts include: Friends of the Earth: Building Transnational Solidarities with Brian Doherty (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK 2011); Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change with Sanjay Chaturvedi (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK and New York 2012); Green Underground: Environment, Development and Public Action under Authoritarian Regimes (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke UK 2013) with Mohamed Salih; and Cash Ecology: Green Political Economy and the ‘Sustainable’ Global Financial Crisis, (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK and New York 2014). In addition, he is completing a two volume edited collection, Global Perspectives on Environmentalism, with Sherilyn MacGregor, (Praeger, Westport, CT, US).


In his academic capacity, he has taught and contributed to university courses in the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaysia, India and Australia. He has been a dedicated environmental and human rights activist since the 1980s. He is founding Co-Editor of the new international Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (Routledge: London and New Delhi); and serves on the editorial board of the international journal Social Movement Studies (Routledge: London). He is series editor, with Phil Catney, of the Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy series, Ashgate, London. He is founding Director of Human and Environmental Security for the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) based in New Delhi and Perth.

My research mainly revolves around issues pertaining to politics and international relations of the environment.  Best reflecting my current research interests, book contracts include: 

  • DOYLE, T.J. (2014) Cash Ecology: Green Political Economy and the Global Financial Crisis, (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK and New York).
  • CHATURVEDI, S. and DOYLE T.J. (2012) Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change, New Securities series, edited by Stuart Croft, (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK and New York).
  • DOYLE, T.J. and SALIH, M. (2012) Green Underground: Environment, Development and Public Action under Authoritarian Regimes (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke UK)
  • DOYLE, T.J. and MacGREGOR, S. (eds) (2012) Environmental Activism: A Multicultural and World Perspective , 2 volume edition, Praeger Publications, United States.
  • DOHERTY, B.J. and DOYLE, T.J.  (2011) Transnational Solidarities: Friends of the Earth International, (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK).

More Publications by Prof Tim Doyle 

Selected Publications

  • Doherty BJA and Doyle TJ. 2012. North-South Environmentalisms: Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). In Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action. Howell J (Ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave. link>
  • DOYLE T. 2011. The Challenge to Politics: Welfare in the Green State. In Understanding the Environment and Social Policy. Fitzpatrick T (Ed.). Policy Pr.
  • Doyle T and Chaturvedi S. 2011. Climate Refugees and Security: Conceptualizations, Categories and Contestations. In Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, Oxford University Press. Dryzek J, Norgaard R, Schlosberg D (Eds.). Oxford University Press. doi>
  • Catney P and Doyle T. 2011. The welfare of now and the green (post) politics of the future. CRITICAL SOCIAL POLICY, vol. 31(2), 174-193. link> doi>
  • DOYLE T, Bouchard C, Chaturvedi S. 2010. Research agendas for the Indian Ocean Region. Journal of the Indial Ocean Region, vol. 6(1), 1-25. doi>

Full Publications List show

Books

  • DOYLE TJC and Doherty B. 2008. Beyond boarders: Environmental movements and transnational politics. New York and London: Routledge.
  • DOYLE TJC and Risely M. 2008. Crucible for survival: Environmental security in the Indian Ocean Region. New Brunswick, New York and London: Rutgers University Press.
  • DOYLE TJC. 2008. Environment and Politics. (3rd ed.). London and New York: Routledge.
  • DOYLE TJC. 2004. Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority Worlds: A Global Perspective. Rutgers University Press.
  • DOYLE TJC. 2001. Green Power: the Environment Movement in Australia. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Journal Articles

  • Catney P and Doyle T. 2011. The welfare of now and the green (post) politics of the future. CRITICAL SOCIAL POLICY, vol. 31(2), 174-193. link> doi>
  • DOYLE T, Bouchard C, Chaturvedi S. 2010. Research agendas for the Indian Ocean Region. Journal of the Indial Ocean Region, vol. 6(1), 1-25. doi>
  • DOYLE T. 2010. Surviving the Gang Bang Theory of Nature: The Environment Movement during the Howard Years. Social Movement Studies, vol. 9(2), 155-169. doi>
  • DOYLE T and CHATURVEDI S. ‘Geopolitics of fear and the emergence of “climate refugees”: imaginative geographies of climate change and displacements in Bangladesh’,. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region,, vol. 6(2), 206-222.
  • Doyle T and Chaturvedi S. 2010. Climate Territories: A Global Soul for the Global South?. Geopolitics, vol. 15(3), 516-535. link> doi>
  • Chaturvedi S and Doyle T. 2010. Geopolitics of Climate Change and Australia's 'Re-engagement' with Asia: Discourses of Fear and Cartographic Anxieties. Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 45(1), 95-115. link> doi>
  • Doherty B and Doyle T. 2006. Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 15(5), 697-712. link> doi> full text>
  • Doyle T and Doherty B. 2006. Green public spheres and the green governance state: The politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 15(5), 881-892. link> doi> full text>
  • DOYLE TJC. 2006. Traversing more than speed bumps: Green politics under authoritarian regimes in Burma and Iran. Environmental Politics, vol. 15(5), 750-767. doi>
  • DOYLE TJC. 2002. Environmental Campaigns against Mining in Australia and the Philippines. Mobilization: the International Journal of Research in Social Movements, Protest and Contentious Politics, vol. 7(1), 29-42. link>
  • Doyle T and Lockhart A. Climate Schmimate? Local Campaigns Against Shell or Transnational Campaigns Against Climate?. Social Alternatives, vol. 31(1), 29-34.

Chapters

  • Doherty BJA and Doyle TJ. 2012. North-South Environmentalisms: Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). In Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action. Howell J (Ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave. link>
  • DOYLE T. 2011. The Challenge to Politics: Welfare in the Green State. In Understanding the Environment and Social Policy. Fitzpatrick T (Ed.). Policy Pr.
  • Doyle T and Chaturvedi S. 2011. Climate Refugees and Security: Conceptualizations, Categories and Contestations. In Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, Oxford University Press. Dryzek J, Norgaard R, Schlosberg D (Eds.). Oxford University Press. doi>
  • DOYLE T. 2009. Regulatory and Market-based Instruments in the Governance of Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas in the Indian Ocean Region: In Search of Cooperative Governance. In Fisheries Exploitation in the Indian Ocean: Threats and Opportunities. Rumley D, Chaturvedi S, Sakhuja V (Eds.). Institute of Southeast Asian.
  • DOYLE T and Risely M. 2008. Earth Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Food, Fisheries and Biodiversity. In Crucible for survival: Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region. Doyle T and Risely M (Eds.). Rutgers Univ Pr.
  • DOYLE T. 2008. Earth, Wind, Fire and Water: In Search of Environmental Security from a Regional Perspective. In Crucible for survival: Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region. Doyle T and Risely M (Eds.). Rutgers Univ Pr.
  • DOYLE T. 2008. Fire and Firepower: Energy Security in the Indian Ocean Region. In Crucible for survival:Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region. Doyle T and Risely M (Eds.). Rutgers Univ Pr.
  • DOYLE T. 2008. Re-valuating Nature-Culture in the Indian Ocean region: Lessons for the Globe. In Crucible for survival: Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region. Doyle T and Risely M (Eds.). Rutgers Univ Pr.
  • DOYLE T. 2008. Struggles for River Security: Movements Against Dams. In Crucible for survival. Doyle T and Risely M (Eds.). Rutgers Univ Pr.
  • DOYLE T and Risely M. 2008. The Essence of Life: Water Security in the Indian Ocean Region. In Crucible for survival: Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region. Doyle T and Risely M (Eds.). Rutgers Univ Pr.
  • DOYLE T. 2008. The Politics of Hope: Understanding Environmental Justice and Security in the Indian Ocean Region within a Post-Colonialist Frame. In Crucible for survival: Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region. Doyle T and Risely M (Eds.). Rutgers Univ Pr.
  • DOYLE T. 2008. Wind: Air Security in the Indian Ocean Region. In Crucible for survival: Environmental Security and Justice in the Indian Ocean Region. Doyle T and Risely M (Eds.). Rutgers Univ Pr.
  • DOYLE T and Doherty BJ. 2008. Beyond borders: Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics. In Beyond borders. Doherty B (Ed.). Routledge.
  • DOYLE T and Doherty B. 2008. Green Public Spheres and the Green Governance State: the Politics of Emancipation and Ecological Conditionality. In Beyond borders: Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics. Doherty B (Ed.). Routledge.
  • DOYLE TJC. 2008. Sustainable development and agenda 21: The secular bible of global free market and pluralist democracy.l. In International Environmental Politics. Mitchell RB (Ed.). London: SAGE publications. doi>
  • DOYLE TJC and Rumley D. 2008. The uranium trade in the Indian ocean region. In The security of sea lanes of communication in the Indian ocean region. Chaturvedi S, Taib M, Rumley D (Eds.). Kuala Lumpur: MIMA publications.
  • DOYLE T and Simpson AJ. 2008. Traversing More than Speed Bumps: Green Politics under Authoritarian Regimes in Burma and Iran. In Beyond borders: Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics. Doherty B (Ed.).
  • DOYLE TJC. 2005. Citizen's inquiries into environmental issues. In Managing Leviathan. Paehlke R and Torgerson D (Eds.). (2nd ed.). Canada: Broadview Press.
  • DOYLE TJC. 2005. 'The Indian Ocean as the Nuclear Ocean', Environmental security dimensions of nuclear power. In Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region. Rumley D and Chaturvedi S (Eds.). New Delhi: South Asian Publishers.
  • DOYLE T. 2004. An Agenda for Environmental Security in the Indian Ocean Region. In Geopolitical orientations, regionalism, and security in the Indian Ocean. Rumley D, Chaturvedi S, Group IOR, Conference IORG (Eds.). South Asia Press.
  • DOYLE TJC. 2004. Dam disputes in Australia and India: appreciating differences in struggles for sustainable development. In India and Australia: Issues and Opportunities. Gopal D and Rumley D (Eds.). New Delhi: Authorspress.
  • Global Political Economy
  • Environmental Politics
  • Political Sociology
  • The Global South
  • Environment and Development

Currently, Doyle is Founding Chair of Management of the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre at the University of Adelaide, as well as Immediate-Past Head of the Research Centre for SPIRE at Keele University. He is Project Leader for a large Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2012-2015) entitled: ‘Building and Indian Ocean Region.’ The remit: ‘The Indian Ocean Region, of vital geopolitical importance to Australia, is the heart of the Third World - overwhelmed by chronic poverty, precarious political systems, and conflicting ethno-religious identities. This project will document attempts at constructing regional identities and institutions, and facilitate the process of 'building' a secure Region’.


Doyle will accept applications from prospective PhD students in the following broad fields of politics and international relations: global political economy; political sociology; critical geopolitics; politics and international relations of the environment; social movements theory and practice. In particular, he welcomes students with an interest in the geopolitical region defined by the Indian Ocean Region - 'The Ocean of the South.'

Current Ph.D. Students:

Beasley, Beverley (principal supervisor), 'Sustainable Development and Water Politics in China'. 

Cordner, Lee (principal supervisor) ‘Indian Ocean Regionalisms: A Maritime and Naval Perspective'.

Rafaat, Aram (principal supervisor) ‘Challenges of Kurdish Integrations intoIraq'.

Wright, Bette (co-supervisor) ‘Australia Immigration Policies: the Howard Era'.

Zimmerman, Erin (co-supervisor) ‘Non-Traditional Security and the Role of Think-Tanks in the Asia-Pacific region'.

Successfully completed PhD students

Achtuneng, Eric (Co-supervisor), ‘Urban Environments and Solid Waste Management in Cameroon’, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, 2005.

Cameron, Margaret  (Primary Supervisor) M.G.C.E.S., 'The Voices We Speak and the Silences We Keep: Towards an Epistemology of Immanence', University of Adelaide, 1998.

Downton, Paul (Primary Supervisor), 'The Development of the Ecopolis in Adelaide',  MGCES, University of Adelaide 2002.

Fox, Midori (Co-supervisor) ‘Environmental Policy-making in Japan,’ in association with Asian Studies, 2010.

Fulton, Claire (primary-supervisor) ‘The History and Politics of Biodynamic Farming in Australia’, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, 2009.

Howes, Mike (Joint Supervisor), Department of Politics, 'Putting the Pieces Together: Sustainable Industry, Environmental Protection, and the Power of Federal Government in the USA and Australia', University of Adelaide, 1999.

Konasinghe, Kokila (co-supervisor) ‘Global Environmental Governance inSri Lanka,’ School of Law, Keele University.

Mazur, Nicole (Primary Supervisor) M.G.C.E.S., 'Contextualising the Role of Zoos in Conservation: An Australian Experience', University of Adelaide, 1998.

Purnama, Dadang (Co-supervisor) ‘EIA in Indonesia,’ (abridged title), Geog and Env. Studie, 2003.

Nicholls, Phillip (Joint Supervisor), 'The Politics of the Management of Environmental Waste in Australia', MGCES, University of Adelaide, 2004.

Risely, Melissa  (Joint Supervisor) MGCES, 'Biotechnology and the Environment', University of Adelaide., 2004.

Simpson, Adam (Primary Supervisor); 'Gas Pipelines and Green Politics in South and South-East Asia', School of History and  Politics, University of Adelaide, 2009.

Stephenson, Hayley (Primary supervisor) ‘Climate Change and International Relations, ’School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, 2009.

Stratford, Elaine (Primary Supervisor) MGCES, 'Construction Sites: Creating the Feminine, the Home and Nature in Australian Discourses on Health', University of Adelaide, 1996.

Thacker, Viraj (Primary Supervisor) ‘Structural Adjustments in the Global South’, School of History and Politics,University of Adelaide, 2008.