After completing a BA and MA in World History, Dr Gibson received a PhD in Environmental Studies and a Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies from York University in Toronto, Canada. Drawing on an interdisciplinary mix of fields (i.e. environmental politics, economic geography, critical development studies, historical sociology, and Asian studies), his general teaching and research interests focus on the contradictory dynamics of nature-society relations under capitalism in economic, political and cultural terms.
Dr Gibson’s research offers a world-ecological (or ecological Marxist) critique of the so-called South Korean economic “miracle.” It traces the origins of South Korea’s contemporary socio-ecological crisis, analysing issues such as environmental degradation, food dependence, and societal discontent as inherent to its unique twentieth-century capitalist transition. He is currently working on a series of articles based on his dissertation research, titled ‘Subsumption as Development: A World-Ecological Critique of the South Korean “Miracle.”’
Research Specialisations- Nature-society relations under capitalism
- Critical development studies
- Asian studies
- Social Theory and the Environment
- Capitalist Nature: Tensions of a Commodified World
- Asia, Development, and Environment
- The Nature of the State
- Time, Space, Nature: Critical Geographies
- Environmental Research Paper
