Kyle Gibson

Kyle is a Lecturer of Social Sciences in the Department of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore (2022-2025). Initially trained in World History (BA; MA), he completed a PhD in Environmental Studies and a Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies at York University in Toronto (2021). Drawing on an interdisciplinary mix of fields (i.e., human geography, critical development studies, environmental sociology, and Asian studies), his general teaching and research interests focus on the global political ecology of capitalism.

Kyle’s research examines the socio-ecological tensions unleashed by South Korea’s “economic miracle,” analyzing issues such as environmental degradation, food dependence, and societal discontent as inherent to its unique twentieth-century capitalist revolution (or “development”). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Subsumption as Development: A World-Ecological Critique of the South Korean “Miracle” (Brill 2026), as well as a series of articles on the “capitalist natures” debates within critical human geography, political ecology and beyond.