Biography
Dr Kang is based at the Department of International Development. She researches capitalist development in the emerging world through the multi-disciplinary lens of economic sociology and political economy. Nahee is the Deputy Director of the KCL-SOAS London Asia Pacific Centre for Social Sciences.
Prior to joining King’s, Nahee was a Lecturer in Development Management at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester. Before that, she held both an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Visiting Fellowship at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR), Nottingham University Business School.
Before coming to England, she worked briefly as a researcher at the Korea Institute of Finance (KIF) in South Korea, and held visiting fellowships at the International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development (ICSEAD) and United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) in Japan. She obtained a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from University of Cambridge, fully funded by the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust.
Research
Dr Kang works on three strands of inter-related research:
- The first strand stems from funded doctoral research funded by the Cambridge Political Economy Trust, and post-doctoral fellowship funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which examined the institutional dynamics of late capitalism, and corporate and industrial change in East Asia.
- The second strand is on the political economy of the middle-income trap, funded by the British Academy’s Rising Star Engagement Award, explored a specific set of challenges that middle-income economies face in making the leap necessary to attain high-income status.
- The third, and most recent strand of work is on the new politics of solidarity in East Asia, funded by the KCL-Nanyang Technological University Partnership Fund and the Academy of Korean Studies. The driving idea behind this project is that there is a limit to studying economies languishing in the trap, and to overcome the trap, closer scrutiny of high-income transition in East Asia is required, with focus on the politics that move policies.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- 5YYD0004 East Asian Development
- 6YYD0004 National Development Strategies
- 4YYD0004 Social and Political Analysis of Emerging Economies
Postgraduate
- 7YYD0012 Industrial Development: Strategy and Competitiveness of East Asian Firms
- 7YYD0004 The Political Economy of Market Reforms
PhD supervision
Nahee supervises in the areas of late capitalism, democracy, and development with focus on emerging economies and regions.
Principal supervisor
Further details
See Nahee's research profile
See Nahee's personal website
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Kang, N., 21 Jun 2022, In: JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA. p. 1-3 3 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2022.2079549
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Kang, N. & Liu, Y., 11 Mar 2022 Research output: Other contribution
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Kang, N. & Jo, K., 21 Jul 2021, In: JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA. 51, 5, p. 713-736 24 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2021.1915362
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Kang, N. & Paus, E., 22 Apr 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES. p. 1 6 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1595601
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Kang, N., 1 Jul 2014, In: Progress in Development Studies. 14, 3, p. 221-235 15 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993414521338
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Kang, N. & Moon, J., 2012, In: SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW. 10, 1, p. 85-108 24 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwr025
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Kang, N., Kim, E. M. & Kim, J. H., 2012, Adapt, Fragment, and Transform: Corporate Restructuring and System Reform in South Korea. Kim, P., Kim, E. M. & Oi, J. C. (eds.). Stanford, CA: Asia-Pacific Research Center, p. 201-231 Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Gond, J-P., Kang, N. & Moon, J., 2011, In: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. 40, 4, p. 640-671 32 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2011.607364
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Moon, J., Kang, N. & Gond, J-P., 2010, The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government. Oxford Univ Pr, p. 512 543 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Kang, N., 2010, In: NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY. 15, 4, p. 519-542 24 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/13563460903548681