Professor Julie Gilson

Julie Gilson

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Professor in Asian Studies and the Environment

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3305
Fax
+44 (0)121 414 3496
Email
j.a.gilson@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Political Science and International Studies
School of Government
Muirhead Tower
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡
Edgbaston, Birmingham,
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Julie is part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics. This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, philosophers, linguists, economists, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

Qualifications

MA, PhD (Sheffield)

Teaching

Teaching: Pols 216 International Politics of East Asia; Pols 332 Advanced Modern Asia

Postgraduate supervision

My main interests focus on climate change in Asia, environmental politics, and civil society in Asia. Previously I have published work on East Asian regionalism, Asia-Europe inter-regional relations and Japanese foreign policy, and is happy to accept proposals related to these themes.

My current and recent projects include work on:
Environmental politics and waste in Southeast Asia
The role of sustainability chapters in free trade agreements
EU-Japan relations
Japanese foreign policy
Transnational governance and civil society in Asia
Climate change and environmentalism in Asia

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Gilson, J 2019, . 1st edn, Routledge, London.

Gilson, J, Hook, GD, Hughes, CW & Dobson, H 2011, . Routledge.

Article

Gilson, J 2023, '', Environmental Politics.

Gilson, J 2021, '', Pacific Review.

Gilson, J 2020, '', International Economics and Economic Policy, vol. 17.

Gilson, J 2017, '', European Political Science, vol. 16, pp. 135–147.

Gilson, J 2017, '', Critical Studies on Security , vol. 5, pp. 1-17.

Gilson, J 2016, '', Journal of European Integration.

Gilson, J 2013, '', Globalizations, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 571-585.

Gilson, J 2012, '', Asia-Europe Journal, vol. 9, no. 2-4, pp. 211-223.

Gilson, J 2011, '', Hogaku Kenkyu, vol. 84, no. 1.

Chapter

Gilson, J 2019, . in The European Union in the Asia-Pacific. Manchester University Press.

Gilson, J 2018, . in Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific. Manchester University Press.

Gilson, J 2011, . in Building Global Democracy?: Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance.

Gilson, J 2011, . in Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism.