Associate Professor

Balsillie School, Department of Political Science, WLU
 

Contact Information

Office Location: DAWB 4-116
Phone Number:  519.884.0710 x 2762
Email: dehall @ wlu.ca

Education

Ph.D., Government, Cornell University, 2002
M.A., Political Science, York University, 1994
B.A. (Hons), Political Studies, Trent University, 1993

Areas of Specialization

 International Political Economy
Japanese Politics
Regional and Comparative Political Economy of East & Southeast Asia
Political Economy of Agriculture and Rural Land
Environmental Politics

Short Bio

 Derek Hall is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is currently working on three main research projects: a comparative historical study of land and property in East and Southeast Asia, a study of certification and regulation in the global shrimp and salmon aquaculture sectors (with Dr. Peter Vandergeest of York University), and an analysis of food traceability in Japan. His research has appeared in journals including Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Agrarian Change, Asia-Pacific Viewpoint, New Political Economy, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Global Environmental Politics. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Social Science at the University of Tokyo on several occasions, and his research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. He is on sabbatical for the 2009-10 academic year as an S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Managementat the University of California, Berkeley.

Most recent scholarly publications

"Japanese Lessons and Transnational Forces: ODA and the Environment" in David Leheny and Kay Warren, Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development: Inescapable Solutions. London and New York: Routledge, 2009, 163-182. (Forthcoming)

"The 2008 World Development Report and the Political Economy of Southeast Asian Agriculture", Journal of Peasant Studies 36(3), July 2009, 615-21. (Forthcoming)

"Pollution Export as State and Corporate Strategy: Japan in the 1970s", Review of International Political Economy 16(2), May 2009, 260-83.

"Regional Shrimp, Global Trees, Chinese Vegetables: The Environment in Japan-Asia Relations" in Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi (eds), Beyond Japan: East Asian Regionalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006, 188-210.

"Japanese Spirit, Western Economics: The Continuing Salience of Economic Nationalism in Japan" in Eric Helleiner and Andreas Pickel, Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005, 118-38.

Recent academic / professional awards

 S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Visiting Research Fellowship, University of California Berkeley, 2009-10.

Courses taught

IP 622 Contemporary Issues in International Economic Relations
IP 624 Interdisciplinary Seminar in International Economic Relations