Key Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

· Kim, S., Yoo, Y  (2025) Contextualising pluriversal critical sustainabilities through Southeast Asian Area Studies (in Korean 동남아시아 지역연구를 통한 다편적 비판지속가능성 고찰), Journal of Global and Area Studies, 9(3), pp.89-114. DOI : 10.31720/JGA.9.3.4

· Kim, S. (2025)  The Possibilities of a Pluriversal International Development Studies in and through Japan: a Case Study of a Former International Student via an Authoethnographical Approach (in Japanese 日本で、日本を通じて探究をする多遍的な国際開発学の可能性―元留学生のオートエスノグラフィーを手掛かりに―), Journal of International Development Studies, 33(2), pp.15-28. https://doi.org/10.32204/jids.33.2_15

· Wang, M. Kim, S., Yamada, K. (2025) Postscript: International Development Studies for Co-existence／Co-becoming in the Pluriverse [in Japanese 結びにかえて―多遍世界を共生する国際開発学―], Journal of International Development Studies, 33(2), pp. 69-76. https://doi.org/10.32204/jids.33.2_69

· Kim, S., Wang, M. and Sato, J. (2023) Development Knowledge in the Making: The Case of Japan, South Korea and China, Progress in Development Studies, 23(3): 275-293.https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231173824.

· Kim, S. (2023) Making a Case for Postcolonial Thinking in International Development Studies: Towards a More Critical and Self-reflexive Field, Journal of International Development Studies,31(3): 83-103.https://doi.org/10.32204/jids.31.3_83

· Kim, S. (2022) A ‘Balancing Act’ Between Development Impacts and National Interests: a Case Study of Japan’s Private Sector Investment Finance (In Korean 혁신적 개발협력 수단으로서의 일본 해외투융자 사업에 대한 고찰), The Korean Journal of Area Studies41(2): 33~61. DOI : 10.29159/KJAS.40.3.2 

· Kim, S. (2022) Contextualising the ‘innovative Development Finance’ Agenda: a case study of Korea’s ‘Gaebal-Geumyung’ (In Japanese 革新的開発金融アジェンダはいかにして現地化したか―韓国「開發金融（gaebal-geumyung）」の事例分析―), Journal of International Development Studies, 31(1): 103-114. https://doi.org/10.32204/jids.31.1_103

· Kim, S. 2022. Rendering (in-)visible? analysing the formation of Japan's Triangular Development Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Globalizations19(7): 1068-1087.https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.2025300

· Kim, S. 2020. Development Cooperation for Coexistence in the Age of Anthropocene (In Korean 공생을 위한 인류세 시대의 개발협력), International Development and Cooperation Review 12(4): 1-17.https://doi.org/10.32580/idcr.2020.12.4.1 

· Kim, S. and Oh, S. 2020. Mobilsing and diversifying development finance: A critical analysis of ODA modernisation process (In Korean 다각화하는 개발금융 논의의 비판적 고찰: OECD-DAC의 ODA 현대화 사례를 중심으로), International Development and Cooperation Review 12(1): 59-71. https://doi.org/10.32580/idcr.2020.12.1.59 

· Kim, S. and Yoo, Y. 2019. Fuelling Development? The Rise of New Development Finance in Korea’s Overseas Energy Cooperation with Southeast Asia, The European Journal of Development Research, 31 (5): 1470–1489.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-019-00218-2

· Kim, S. and Kim, J.H. 2019. The Case for a Relationalist Approach to Development Cooperation: Unpacking the Substantialist Imaginary of UNICEF’s Breastfeeding Campaign in Thailand (In Korean 관계성(relationality)으로 바라본 국제개발협력: 태국 유니세프 모유수유 캠페인을 사례로), International Development and Cooperation Review 11 (2): 91-111.https://doi.org/10.32580/idcr.2019.11.2.91

· Kim, S. and Kang, H. 2018. A Review of Southeast Asia-related Development Cooperation Studies in Korea: Exploring a Possible Contribution from the Critical Southeast Asian Studies (In Korean 한국 동남아 국제개발협력 연구 동향 분석: 비판적 동남아 지역연구로서의 국제개발협력 연구 심화 가능성 고찰), The Southeast Asian Review 28 (2): 47–84.https://doi.org/10.21652/kaseas.28.2.201805.47

· Lightfoot, S. and Kim, S. 2017. The EU and the Negotiation of Global Development Norms: The Case of Aid Effectiveness, European Foreign Affairs Review 22(2):159-175. https://doi.org/10.54648/eerr2017010

· Kim, S. (2016) Tracing the roots and domestic sources of Korea’s ODA: aid as a cold war statecraft for a middle income country, Journal of International Cooperation Studies24(1): 87-102.https://www.research.kobe-u.ac.jp/gsics-publication/jics/kim_24-1.pdf

· Kim, S. and Gray, K. (2016) Overseas Development Aid as Spatial Fix?: Examining South Korea’s Africa Policy, Third World Quarterly 37(4): 649-664. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1108162

· Pickering, J., Skovgaard, J., Kim, S., Roberts, J.T., Rossati, D., and Stadelmann, M., Reich, H. (2015), Acting on Climate Finance Pledges: Inter-Agency Dynamics and Relationships with Aid in Contributor States, World Development 68: 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.033

· Kim, S. and Kang, H. (2015) Young and Dynamic? – a critical review of Korea’s national level post-MDG debates, Journal of International Development 27(6): 776–800. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3115

· Kim, S. (2012d), ‘Japan’s common but differentiated approach to climate change in Africa’, Japanese Studies 32 (2): 255-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2012.708396

· Kim, S. (2012c) ‘Contextualising political ecology: the case of Japan’s bilateral environmental aid to the Philippines’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 33 (1). pp.108-123. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2012.00452.x

· Kim, S., Ojo, G., Zaidi, R.Z., and Bryant, R.(2012b) Bringing the ‘other’ into political ecology: reflecting on preoccupations in a research field, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 33(1), pp.34-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2012.00453.x

· Kim, S., Ojo, G., Zaidi, R.Z., and Bryant, R.(2012a) ‘Other’ Political Ecologies: Editors’ Introduction, Journal of Tropical Geography, 33(1), pp.29-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2012.00446.x

· Kim, S. (2011) Bridging Two Worlds? An Analysis of the ethical case for South Korean aid, Journal of International Development, 23(6), pp.802-822. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1811

· Kim, S. and Lightfoot, S. (2011) Does ‘DAC-Ability’ Really Matter? The emergence of non-DAC Donors’, Journal of International Development 23 (5), pp. 711–721. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1795

· Kim, S. (2010) ‘Greening the Dam: the case of Japan’s Bilateral International Cooperation with the Philippines’, Geoforum, 41 (4), pp. 627–637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.02.005

· Kim, S. (2009) ‘Translating sustainable development: greening of Japan’s international cooperation’, Global Environmental Politics, 9(2), pp. 24-51. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.2009.9.2.24