Katherine Morton, BA (Hons), MA (Sussex), PhD (ANU)
Fellow, Department of International Relations

Email: katherine.morton@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Dr Katherine Morton is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations. She is a China specialist and her research interests include global civil society, international environmental politics, international development, and the influence of international norms and interventions on domestic political and socio-economic change. She is presently engaged in a study of transnational advocacy at the grassroots in China and its impact on the struggle for social and environmental justice.

Research Interests

International relations of China; global environmental politics; international development cooperation; the role and influence of NGOs in global governance.

Key Publications

• ‘Transnational Advocacy at the Grassroots in China: Potential Benefits and Risks’, in Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds (eds), China’s Embedded Activism (forthcoming October) Routledge, 2007.
• 'Civil Society and Marginalisation: Grassroots NGOs in Qinghai Province’, in Heather Xiaoquan Zhang, Bin Wu, and Richard Sanders (eds), Marginalisation in China: Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation (in press) Ashgate, July 2007.
• ‘Surviving an Environmental Crisis: Can China Adapt?’, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, XIII(I), Fall/Winter 2006.
• International Aid and China's Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon, Routledge Studies on China in Transition, Routledge, 2005.
• The Emergence of NGOs in China and their Transnational Linkages: Implications for Domestic Reform’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 59(4), December 2005b.

Career Highlights

East Asia Research Consultant (1995-97); Deputy Director of the East Asia Programme, University of Sussex (1992-94).