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Jeffrey Henderson; B.Soc.Sc., M.Soc.Sc. (Birmingham), PhD. (Warwick)
Professor of International Development, Director -Centre for East Asian Studies
Profile
Jeffrey Henderson is originally from the counties of Durham and York in northern England and he studied sociology, history and politics at the Universities of Birmingham, California (Santa Barbara), Leeds and Warwick. Currently Professor of International Development in the Centre for East Asian Studies at Bristol, he has taught previously at the Universities of Birmingham, Hong Kong and Manchester (including the Manchester Business School) and has held Visiting Professorships or Fellowships at the Universities of Lodz, Warwick, Glasgow, Melbourne, New England, Leeds, California at Berkeley, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz and at Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe. Additionally, he has delivered invited lectures at leading universities in China, Singapore, Australia, the United States, Egypt, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Taiwan and Japan. He has been an advisor to the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Council of Europe, as well as to government agencies and politicians in Britain and Hong Kong. His books include, East Asian Transformation, The Globalisation of High Technology Production, States and Development in the Asian-Pacific Rim (with Richard P. Appelbaum) and Industrial Transformation in Eastern Europe in the Light of the East Asian Experience.
His research is broadly concerned with the sociology and political economy of economic development and in recent years his interests have focused on the developmental consequences of global production networks as well as on the relation of economic governance to inequality and poverty. He has pursued these interests in various parts of East Asia and Europe, as well as in South Africa. His current research is concerned with the implications of China’s development for the rest of the developing world. In this context, he is particularly interested in theorising emergent transformations in the global order and as part of that, analysing the consequences of China’s international trade, the globalisation of its corporate base, the implications of its search for energy security, the impact of its foreign aid programme, its actions within the institutions of global governance, the human rights questions raised by its international expansion, and the geo-political consequences of all of these.
Doctoral Programme: Professor Henderson is the Co-ordinator for the PhD programme pathway on the Global Political Economy - Transformations and Policy Analysis. In this context, he is interested in supervising students who want to study issues associated with the rise of China and its relation to global transformation.
Selected Publications
(2011) East Asian Transformation: On the Political Economy of Dynamism, Governance and Crisis. London and New York, Routledge
(2008)'China and global development: towards a Global-Asian Era?', Contemporary Politics, 14(4): 375-392.
(2007) ‘Bureaucratic effects: “Weberian” state agencies and poverty reduction’, Sociology, 41(3): 515-532. (with D. Hulme, H. Jalilian and R. Phillips).
(2007) ‘Unintended consequences: social policy, state institutions and the “stalling”
of the Malaysian industrialisation project’,Economy and Society 36(1): 78-102 (with R. Phillips).
(2006) ‘Usurping social policy: neo-liberalism and economic governance in Hungary’, Journal of Social Policy, 35 (4): 585-606 (with R. Phillips, L. Andor and D.Hulme).
(2005) ‘Governing growth and inequality: the continuing relevance of strategic economic planning’ in R.P. Appelbaum and W.I. Robinson (eds), Critical Globalization Studies. New York, Routledge: 227-236.
(2003) ‘Commodity chains, foreign investment and labour issues in Eastern Europe’, Global Networks 3(2): 171-196 (with L. Czaban).
(2002) ‘Global production networks and the analysis of economic development’, Review of International Political Economy, 9(3): 436-464 (with P. Dicken, M. Hess, N. Coe and H. W-C. Yeung)
(1999) ‘Uneven crises: institutional foundations of East Asian economic turmoil’, Economy and Society, 28(3): 327-368. (reprinted in Soziale Welt, 13, 1999: 359-393)
