Gareth Dale
Senior Lecturer
Politics and History
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- BA (Combined Studies) University of Manchester
- PhD (Government) University of Manchester
Personal Biography
Gareth Dale worked at Birkbeck College, the London School of Economics and Swansea University before joining Brunel in 2005. He is currently completing an intellectual biography of Karl Polanyi, for The University of Michigan Press, and an edited collection of Polanyi’s Hungarian writings, for Continuum. His previous books include 'First the Transition, Then the Crash: Eastern Europe in the 2000s' (2011), 'Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market' (2010), a trilogy on East German political and economic history (2004-2007), and 'The European Union and Migrant Labour' (1999). His work has appeared in Chinese, Portuguese and German.
Gareth supervises PhDs in a range of fields. His current doctoral students are working on environmental political theory, the geopolitics of the Arctic, Hungarian political economy, the New Institutional Economic History, and the EU's management of the Greek crisis.
Research
Research Overview
Gareth’s current research focuses upon the life and work of Karl Polanyi and international political economy. He is interested in the political economy of the environment, particularly climate change, and has been involved in the trade-union sponsored “One Million Climate Jobs” programme. His ancillary interests lie in the history of East Germany, the political economy of Eastern Europe, social movement theory, and international migration.
Member, Social and Political Thought Research Group
Member, Centre for Biomedicine and Society (CBAS)
Current Projects
Gareth is involved in the establishment of an international Research Community investigating ‘learning processes in nature-society relations,’ based at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The project is interdisciplinary, comprising political scientists, sociologists, geographers, pedagogues and urban planners.
He is also involved in a research project on economic development and state formation in East Asia, based at SOAS and Gyeongsang National University (Jinju, South Korea).
Recently Completed Projects
Conference organised
1989 – 2009: the East European revolutions in perspective
University of London Union
Lippman-Miliband Trust
Karl Polanyi-related research and public lecture trip to Montréal
£650
Sept 2010
British Academy
Overseas Conference Grant to attend ‘The Fall of the Wall, Twenty Years After,’ international conference, University of Cincinnati
£400
2009
Amiel-Melburn Trust
For the “1989–2009: The East European Revolutions in Perspective” international conference
£1,000
2009
Taylor & Francis Publishers
Publicity materials for the “1989–2009: The East European Revolutions in Perspective” conference
£500
2009
Lippman-Miliband Trust
Towards the “1989–2009” conference
£300
2008
Amiel-Melburn Trust
Commissioned translations of Karl Polanyi’s Hungarian writings
July 2008
£5,400
Nuffield Foundation
Commissioned summaries of Polanyi’s Hungarian writings
£3,000
2008
PhD Supervision
Simon Beynon: Cosmopolitan Values in a Scarcity Age: The Politics of Resilience; Oct 2012 –
Matthijs Krul: Markets, Economics Imperialism, and Social Theory: A Theoretical and Historical Analysis of the Market in Modern Political Economy; Jan 2012 –
Corine Wood: Sovereignty and the National Interest: The Arctic Policy of Canada, Russia and the United States; 2009 – (part time)
Adam Fabry: The Ascendancy of Neoliberalism in Post-Transition Hungary: By Default or Design; 2008 – (part time)
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Democracy and Democratisation
- Empire, Imperialism, Hegemony
Postgraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Globalisation
Administration
- Admissions tutor
External Activity
- Current Journal editorships: Reviews Editor and editorial board member, Debatte. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. Editorial board member, Marxist Interventions
- Past Journal editorships: Editorial board member, Journal of Sustainable Development. Advisory editor, Oxford University Press Online Bibliography
- Co–founder and editor, Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory
- PhDs examined: Samuel Pietsch, “The deputy-sheriff earns his spurs: Australia’s military intervention in East Timor, 1999”, The Australian National University. August 2009. Alan Sandry, “Elucidating an Ideology: An Evaluation of Plaid Cymru’s ‘Thought-Practices’.” Swansea University. June 2005
- External examiner: Political Geography and Development Studies, University of Westminster
- Peer review of book manuscripts: Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, Polity Press, Edinburgh University Press, Macmillan, Penguin Books, Verso Books, Pluto Press, Brill
- Peer review of journal articles: Review of International Studies, Comparative Political Studies, Cambridge Journal of Economics, The Sociological Quarterly, New Political Economy, Environment and Planning A, Oxford University Press Online Bibliography, The International History Review, Sociology Compass, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, European Societies, Journal of Economic Methodology, Journal of Critical Realism, Contemporary European Studies, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Journal of Sustainable Development, Contemporary Politics, Institute of Economic Studies Working Papers, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Historical Materialism, Global Journal of Political Science and International Relations.Peer review of research funding applications for: Qatar National Research Fund
- Peer review of postdoctoral research proposals for: The Estonian Research Council
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(Forthcoming) Dale, G., Adam Smith’s Green Thumb and Malthus’ Three Horsemen: Cautionary tales from classical political economy, Journal of Economic Issues Forthcoming
(Forthcoming) Dale, G., Marketless trading in Hammurabi’s time: A reappraisal, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Forthcoming
(2012) Dale, G., Critiques of growth in classical political economy: Mill’s stationary state and a Marxian response, New Political Economy Forthcoming
(2012) Dale, G., Double movements and pendular forces: Polanyian perspectives on the neoliberal age, Current Sociology 60 (1) : 3- 27
(2011) Dale, G., Fighting deep cuts, South African Labour Bulletin 35 (2) : 57- 60
(2011) Dale, G., Lineages of embeddedness: On the antecedents and successors of a Polanyian concept, American Journal of Economics and Sociology 70 (2) : 306- 339
(2011) Dale, G., Positivism and 'functional theory' in the thought of Karl Polanyi, 1907-1922, Sociology Compass 5 (2) : 148- 164
(2011) Dale, G. and Whittaker, X., Sex work: A rejoinder, International Socialism 129 201- 208
(2010) Dale, G. and Whittaker, X., A response to the sex work debate, International Socialism 127 183- 198
(2010) Dale, G., Book review on The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, published in London by Allen Lane, Environmental Politics 19 (1) : 159- 161
(2010) Dale, G., Conflict and stability in the German Democratic Republic by Port, AI, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp.326, ISBN 978-0521744171, Journal of Cold War Studies 12 (3) : 147- 149
(2010) Dale, G., Dieter Segert, Das 41. Jahr. Eine andere Geschichte der DDR, Wien-Köln-Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2008, pp. 284, ISBN 978-3205781547; €24.90, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 18 (2) : 250- 253
(2010) Dale, G., Polanyian meditations on economy and society: a review of ‘Market Society: The Great Transformation Today’, Dialectical Anthropology 34 (1) : 29- 41
(2010) Dale, G., Social democracy, embeddedness and decommodification: On the conceptual innovations and intellectual affiliations of Karl Polanyi, New Political Economy 15 (3) : 369- 393
(2010) Dale, G., Who were ‘the people’? Classes and movements in East Germany, 1989, Capital and Class 34 (2) : 215- 233
(2009) Dale, G., A short autumn of utopia: The East German revolution of 1989, International Socialism 124 39- 71
(2009) Dale, G., Book review on Traffic. Environment. Climate. The globalisation of tempo mania, ENVIRON POLIT 18 (2) : 305- 307
(2009) Dale, G., Karl Polanyi in Budapest: On his political and intellectual formation, European Journal of Sociology 50 (1) : 97- 130
(2009) Dale, G., Of “raisins” and “yeast”: mobilisation and framing in the East German revolution of 1989, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 17 (3) : 271- 283
(2008) Dale, G., ‘Green Shift’: an analysis of corporate responses to climate change, International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy 3 (2) : 134- 155 Download publication
(2008) Dale, G., Book review on Working in East Germany: Normality in a socialist dictatorship, AM HIST REV 113 (2) : 603- 604
(2008) Dale, G., Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation: Perverse effects, protectionism and Gemeinschaft, Economy and Society 37 (4) : 495- 524 Download publication
(2007) Dale, G., “On the menu or at the table”: Corporations and climate change, International Socialism 116 117- 139
(2007) Dale, G., Heimat, “Ostalgie” and the Stasi: The GDR in German cinema, 1999-2006, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 15 (2) : 155- 175 Download publication
(2007) Dale, G., Moments of German-German economic- and social history 1945-1990: An analysis at equal eye levels., ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW 60 (1) : 222- 224
(2006) Dale, G., “A very orderly retreat”: Democratic transition in East Germany, 1989-90, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 14 (1) : 7- 35 Download publication
(2006) Dale, G., From plan to plan: An economic history of the GDR [Von Plan zu Plan: Eine Wirtschaftsgeschichte der DDR by André Steiner], Slavic Review: American quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies 65 (3) : 573- 575
(2003) Dale, G., "Like wildfire" The east German rising of June 1953, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 11 (2) : 107- 163 Download publication
(2002) Dale, G., Globalisation, microelectronics, and the demise of the GDR, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 10 (1) : 73- 91 Download publication
(2002) Dale, G., More shock than therapy: Why there has been no “miracle” in Eastern Germany, Socialism and Democracy 16 (2) : 93- 136 Download publication
(2001) Dale, G., 'Merging rivulets of opposition': Perspectives of the anti-Capitalist movement, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 30 (2) : 365- 379 Download publication
(1999) Dale, G., Review essay on three monographs on East Germany, Historical Materialism (3) Download publication
Conference Papers
(2007) Dale, G., The politics of global warming: Tipping points, sustainable capitalism, and an anonymous death in China, Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Download publication
Book Chapters
(Forthcoming) Dale, G., Dislocation and exile in the life of the young Karl Polanyi. In: Brandt, J. and Szalai, Z. eds. Exil und Arbeit in Deutschland: Ungarische Intellektuelle im Deutschland der Zwischenkriegszeit. München : IKGS (In Press)
(2011) Dale, G. and Hardy, J., Conclusion: The 'crash' in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Dale, G. ed. First the Transition, Then the Crash. London : Pluto Press 251- 264
(2011) Dale, G., Introduction: The transition in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Dale, G. ed. First the Transition, Then the Crash. London : Pluto Press 1- 21
(2011) Dale, G., Marxism. In: Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Relations. Oxford University Press
(2010) Dale, G., 1918-1919 in the development of Karl Polanyi’s political thought. In: Krausz, T. and Vértes, J. eds. 1919 A Magyarországi Tanácsköztársaság és a kelet-európai forradalmak. Budapest : L'Harmattan Kiadó/ELTE BTK Kelet-Európa Története Tanszék
(2010) Dale, G., Consumer behavior. In: SAGE Green Series Encylopedia. SAGE
(2010) Dale, G., Karl Polanyi and Oszkar Jászi: liberal socialism, the Aster revolution and the Tanácsköztársaság. In: Krausz, T. and Vértes, J. eds. A Magyarországi Tanácsköztársaság - 90 éve. Budapest : ELTE Download publication
(2007) Dale, G., Modelling democratic transition in southern and central Europe: Did East Germany experience ‘transición’ or ‘ruptura’?. In: Stivachtis, YA. ed. The state of European integration. Ashgate Pub Co - Download publication
Books
(2011) Dale, G. and (ed)., First the transition, then the Crash: Eastern Europe in the 2000s. Pluto Press
(2010) Dale, G., Karl Polanyi: The limits of the market. Polity Press
(2007) Dale, G., The East German revolution of 1989. Manchester University Press
(2005) Dale, G., Popular protest in East Germany, 1945-1989. Routledge
(2004) Dale, G., Between state capitalism and globalisation: The collapse of the East German economy. Peter Lang
(1999) Dale, G., (ed)., Cole, M. and (ed)., The European Union and migrant labour. Berg Publishers
