Professor Timothy Doyle

Biography/ Background

Professor Timothy Doyle, B.A. Hons. (Melb), M.A. (Adel), Ph.D. (Griffith), is 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 Founding Chair of Management, for the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre (IPGRC). In addition, Professor Doyle 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.
Currently, Doyle is Project Leader for the 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’.

Publications

Professor Doyle 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, 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; four editions 1998, 2001, 2008, 2013 (forthcoming) 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: Environment, Solidarity and Cosmpolitianism with B. Doherty (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK 2012); Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change with S. Chaturvedi (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK and New York 2013); Green Underground: Environment, Development and Public Action under Authoritarian Regimes (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke UK 2014) with Mohamed Salih; and Cash Ecology: Green Political Economy and the ‘Sustainable’ Global Financial Crisis, (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK and New York 2015).
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 of the Routledge Introductions to Environment Series (Environment and Society) (Taylor and Francis: London). He is also series editor of the Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy series, with Phil Catney, (Ashgate: London). He is Founding Director of Human and Environmental Security for the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG), formed in 2000, and based in New Delhi and Perth. He barracks for Collingwood.

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011