On China’s Doorstep, Laos Plays a Careful Game of Balancing

China, connectivity, infrastructure, Laos, Violence

SSEAC Stories – Connectivity and Displacement in Laos: Exploring Intersectional Infrastructure Violence

BRI, China, covid-19, debt, Global Development, Laos

Sims, K. 2021, ‘Lao PDR in 2020: Pandemic, Debt and Resource Extraction’, in Daljit Singh and Malcolm Cook (ed), Southeast Asian Affairs 2021, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.

Belt and Road Initiative, infrastructure, Laos, Retroliberalism, Violence

Sims, K. (2021) ‘Infrastructure Violence and Retroliberal Development: Connectivity and Dispossession in Laos’, Third World Quarterly

cambodia, China, international relations, non-interference

Po, Sovinda and Sims, Kearrin (2021) ‘The Myth of Non-Interference: Chinese Foreign Policy in Cambodia, Asian Studies Review,

Development Studies, Global Development, Human Rights, Laos, Sombath Somphone, Thinking and Working Politically, TWP

Sims, Kearrin (2021) ‘Risk navigation for Thinking and Working Politically: the work and disappearance of Sombath Somphone’, Development Policy Review, 39(4), 604-620

Bangladesh, climate change, Development Studies, Global Development

Roy, S. and Sims, K. (2020) ‘Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh: The need for community-based approaches’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, online view

China, Development Studies, Global Development

Sims, K. 2020, ‘China’s development contribution to Laos: Beyond growth and connectivity’, in Don Emmerson (ed), The Deer and the Dragon, Stanford University Press, California.

China, Development Studies, Global Development

Sims, Kearrin (2020) ‘The ADB and AIIB: Cooperation, Competition and Contestation’ in Max Kelly, Viktor Jakupec and Jonathan J. Makuwira, Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid: Beyond the Neoliberal Hegemony, Routledge, UK., pp. 145-159.

Development Studies, Global Development

Sims, K. 2018, ‘Teaching Development Studies in Times of Change’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 59(2), 147-158. SPECIAL ISSUE

China, Development Studies, Global Development

Sims, K., 2017, ‘More growth, less freedom: Charting international development pathways in Lao PDR’, in Brendan Howe (ed.), The Securitization of Governance in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, UK.

Development Studies, Global Development, Laos, Poverty Alleviation

Sims, K., 2017, ‘Gambling on the Future: Casino Enclaves, Development and Poverty Alleviation in Laos’, Pacific Affairs, 90(4), 675-700.

Human Rights, Laos

Sims, K., 2017, ‘Economic Growth and Development in Lao PDR: Who Pays for Progress?’, Human Rights Defender, University of New South Wales, (26)2.

Book Review

Book Review – Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State. Edited by Vanina Bouté and Vatthana Pholsena. Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. Softcover: 457pp.

China, Development Studies, Global Development

Sims, K. and Winter, T., 2016, ‘In the slipstream of development: World Heritage and development-induced displacement in Laos’, in Colin Long and Sophia Labadi (eds.), Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability: International Frameworks, National and Local Governance, Routledge, UK, pp. 23-36.

Book Review, Laos, post-conflict

Book Review – Sims, Kearrin. (2016) ‘Review of S.P. Stobbe “Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos”’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 38(2): 324 – 326.

Community-oriented learning, Culture & Development, Development Studies, Global Development, Laos, Participatory Development, Post-2015, Sombath Somphone

Sims, K., 2015, ‘Culture, community-oriented learning and the post-2015 development agenda: a view from Laos’, Third World Quarterly, 36(10): 1922-1943.

China, Development Studies, Global Development

Sims, K., 2015 ‘Uneven geographies of transnational capitalism in Laos’, in Jeb Sprague (ed.), Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania, Routledge, UK, pp. 199-213.

Asian Development Bank, Development Studies, Global Development, Laos, Neoliberalism, Poverty Alleviation

Sims, K., 2015, ‘The Asian Development Bank and the production of poverty: Neoliberalism, technocratic modernization and land dispossession in the Greater Mekong Subregion’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36(1): 112-126

Development Studies, displacement, Laos

Sims, Kearrin. (2013) ‘Raising Homes for a Rising Asia: Development-induced-displacement and Regionalism in Laos’, LEWI Working Paper Series, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Development, Development Studies, Global Development, Human Security, Laos, Unexploded Ordinance

Howe, B. and Sims, K., 2011 ‘Human Security and Development in Lao PDR: A responsibility to provide and protect’, Asian Survey, 51(2): 333-355.

ADB, AIIB, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China, Multilateral Development Bank

Laos sets its own Debt Trap

China, Human Rights, Laos, Poverty Alleviation

Looking Ahead: Laos in 2020 and Beyond

ADB, AIIB, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China, Multilateral Development Bank

Cooperation and contestation between the ADB and AIIB

The Wall Street Journal on the Geopolitics of the AIIB

Launch of the Development Studies Association of Australia

Can the Land of a Million Elephants Survive the Belt and Road?

Development Studies, Global Development, learning and teaching, pedagogy

Pedagogy in Practice: How we teach (and learn) in Development Studies

Development Studies, Global Development, learning and teaching, pedagogy

New Visions for International Development Education

Laos in 2016: Sustainable Development and the Work of Sombath Somphone

Is Laos’ ASEAN Chairmanship a Threat to Southeast Asian Regionalism?

The Case of Sombath Somphone

Letter to Sombath

Laos, Sombath Somphone

Why A Missing Lao Activist Should Concern Us All

The Disappeared

Playing Dirty: Everyday Laotians are Finding that Joining the Asian Century comes with Hidden Costs

Trump, Brexit, Humanities and Citizen Scholars

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