dr. GTJ (Gerard) McCarthy

Biography

I am Assistant Professor of Social Policy and Development here at ISS. My work focuses on the politics of development and inequality in Southeast Asia. I am particularly interested in the politics of welfare regime change - the ways governments avoid or transfer social obligations (via social outsourcing) as well as the conditions in which welfare regimes change to become less precarious and more socially sustainable.

I have a special focus on Myanmar, where I have researched democracy, welfare capitalism and autocracy since 2013. My book, 'Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar' is out with Cornell University Press in 2023 (https://bit.ly/3FLIzwROpens external). It is based on extensive qualitative and survey research in provincial areas of Myanmar focusing on autocratic legacies of state social outsourcing and how these work to entrench precarity and inequality across political regimes (hybrid democratic and autocratic alike). I have also worked and conducted fieldwork in Singapore, South Sudan, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

If you are working on/interested in distributive politics, social policy, taxation, informality, platform capitalism and the gig-economy in developing or contested contexts I would love to hear from you. I'm available for MA and PhD supervision on these themes, with a special interest in projects using qualitative/mixed-method research or focusing especially on Asia.

Prior to joining ISS in 2023 I was a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore's Asia Research Institute (2020-2023) and a Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics and Politics Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (Sept-Dec 2022). Before that I was Associate Director, Myanmar Research Centre at Australian National University (ANU) (2016-2019) and Visiting Fellow at Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore (2018).

I enjoy working at the intersection of scholarship and praxis and I regularly advise and consult for a range of like-minded agencies including The Asia Foundation, Oxfam, Centre for Good Governance Myanmar, International Growth Centre Myanmar, United States Institute of Peace and The Carter Centre.

International Institute of Social Studies

Assistant professor | Academic staff unit
Email
mccarthy@iss.nl

Work

  • Gerard McCarthy (1 november 2023) - Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar
  • Gerard McCarthy (2 april 2023) - Myanmar’s Resilient Revolution

Board of Examiners

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-BOE-24-25

Major SPD

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-SPD-24-25

General Information

Year
2024
Course Code
ISSGENERAL-24-25

3105 Research Paper Preparation

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-3105-24-25

3214 Understanding and Interpreting Quan

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-3214-24-25

Global Poverty, Local Solutions

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-MI-8103

4154 Critical Social Policy

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-4154-24-25

4394 SPD: Working towards the RP

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-4394-24-25

5401 Research Paper

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-5401-24-25

4311 Children, Youth and Development

Year
2024
Course Code
ISS-4311-24-25

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