Dr Peter Gale

Pearson Education

ACRAWSA

Journal of Sociology

Centre for Policy Development

Centre for Policy Development - The Politics of Fear

Member of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)

Member of Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRWSA)

Member of International sociological Association

1991 Flinders University of South Australia Honours in Sociology, School of Social Sciences.

1992-1996 PhD, School of Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia; Sociology Department. Australian Postgraduate Award. PhD thesis title: Representations of Aboriginality and Tertiary Education in Contemporary Australia: Tensions and Contradictions between Equity and Indigenous Rights. Ph.D Conferred May 1997

Gale, P. 2008, 'Ending the Fear: National Emergency and Moral Panic', Paper presented to the 4th International Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA)Re:Imagining Australia and India: Cultura and Identity, 22-24th January, Kolkata.

Gale, P. 2007, Moral Panic and White Australia: The Politics of Division, in White Matters, Ed Susan Petrilli, ATHANOR. Semiotica, Filosofia, Arte, Letteratura, Anno XVII, n. 10 General Editor Augusto Ponzio, pp 332-45.

Gale, P. 2007, 'The Politics of Division: National Panic and Paternalistic Nationalism', Paper presented to the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA), Adelaide, December.

Gale, P. 2007,'Fear and Politics of a National Emergency: Creating a Crisis in Indigenous Affairs', Paper Presented to the National Conference on Racism in a Global Context, 9-11th November, Perth, WA.

Gale, P. 2006, 'Wedged Out: From Wik to the Wilderness', Paper Presented to the Borderpolitics of Whiteness Conference, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA, Sydney December 11-13.

Gale, P. 2006, Fear, Race, and National Identity, in Dialogue, 25, 3, pp 35-42

Gale, P. and David Caldicott, 2006, The Politics of Fear and Drug Education,Paper presented to Sociology for a Mobile World Conference, The Australian Sociological Association, Perth, December 4-7.

Gale. P. 2006, Compassion and Fear - Convergence and Divergence: Politics and the Media, Paper Presented to the Indian Association for the Study of Australia, “Australia and India: Convergences and Divergences” Conference January, 2006.

Gale, P. 2006, Fear and Other Loathing: Nationalising Religion, Paper presented to The Australian Association for the Study of Religions Conference 2006, Celebrating the Past – Anticipating the Future, 7th – 9th July.

Gale, P 2005, The Politics of Fear: Lighting the Wik, Pearson Education, Frenchs Forest NSW.

Gale, P. 2004, The Refugee Crisis and Fear: Populist Politics and Media Discourse, Journal of Sociology, Vol 40, No. 4, December, SAGE, pp 321-340.

Gale, P. 2004, ‘Looking out from Australia: ‘Security’ and the Politics of Belonging’, Paper Presented to Conference on Racism, Sexism and Contemporary Politics of Belonging, International Sociological Association Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations Committee and Women in Society Committee, London, 25-27th August.

Gale, P. 2003, ‘Being ‘alarmed’ and looking out from Australia: Whiteness and the politics of protecting ‘our’ place’, Paper Presented to Conference on Placing Race and Localising Whiteness, Flinders University of South Australia, 2nd October 2003.

Gale, P. 2002, ‘Hansonism, Howard and Representations of the politics of fear’, Paper Presented to International Sociological Association, XV World Congress of Sociology Brisbane, 7-13th July 2002.

Gale, P. 2002, ‘A politics of fear in Australia: Representations of refugees in the media’, Paper Presented to The British Sociological Association Annual Conference, The University of Leicester, 25-27th March 2002.

Gale, P. 2002, ‘Asylum Seekers and the politics of fear’, Paper Presented to Fear of Strangers: Wogs, Refos and Illegals in the Popular Imagination, Art Gallery of South Australia 6-7 December 2002.

Gale, Peter, 2001, ‘Representations of Reconciliation: Bridges, Symbols and Substance’, in Roconciliation, Multiculturalism, Identities: Difficult Dialogues, Sensible Solutions, eds. Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope, Common Ground Publishing, Australia, pp 123-34.

Gale, P. 2001, ‘A politics of deterrence or a poll driven policy: Representations of refugees in the media’, Paper Presented to The Australian Sociological Association Conference, The University of Sydney 13-15th December 2001.

Gale, Peter, 2000, ‘Constructions of Whiteness in the Australian Media’, in Race, Colour, Identity: Constructing the Multicultural Subject In Australia and New Zealand, eds. Gerhard Fischer and John Docker, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp 256-69.

Gale, Peter, 2000, ‘Indigenous Rights and Higher Education in Australia: Not Just Black and White’. Chapter Seven in Teasdale GR & Ma Rhea Z (Eds) Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education. Pergamon, Oxford, 2000, pp 95-108.

Gale, P. 2000, ‘Representations of Reconciliation: Bridges, Symbols and Substance’, Paper Presented to The Diversity Conference 2000: National Conference on Reconciliation, Multiculturalism, Immigration and Human Rights, University of Technology, Sydney, 1st December 2000.

Gale, P. 2000, ‘White Australia and Reconciliation: Justice or Just Another Bridge?’, Paper Presented to The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, 6th December, 2000.

Gale, Peter, 1999, Regret and Reconciliation: White Nationalism and Indigenous Rights, Paper Presented to The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, December 8th 1999.

Gale, P. 1998, Indigenous Rights And Tertiary Education In Australia, Paper Presented to the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Adelaide 29th November - 3rd December 1998. http://www.aare.edu.au/98pap/cro98340.htm

Gale, P. 1998, ‘Representations of Australia in Malaysia and Thailand 1996-97’, Paper Presented to IDP Education Australia: 12th Australian International Education Conference: Canberra, 29th September 1998.

Gale, P. 1998, ‘Racism, Reconciliation and the Media’, Paper Presented to The 2nd World Conference On Remedies To Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality, Adelaide 22nd September 1998.

Gale, P. 1997, Representations of Australia in East and South-East Asian Media 1996-97: Report on Research in Progress Paper Presented to: IDP Education Australia 11th Australian International Education Conference: International Education in Two Hemispheres: New Images and New Realities, Melbourne, 1st October 1997.

Gale, P. 1997, Equity, Indigenous Rights and Tertiary Education in Australia, Paper Presented to The Australasian Association for Institutional Research 8th International Conference, Adelaide, 27th November 1997.

Gale, P. 1997, Constructions of ‘Whiteness’ and the ‘racism debate’: Representations of Australia in national and regional newspapers, 1996-1997, Paper Presented to The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Wollongong, 11th December 1997.

Gale, P. 1996, Representations of Aboriginality and Tertiary Education in Contemporary Australia: Tensions and Contradictions between Equity and Indigenous Rights, PhD Thesis, Flinders University of South Australian, Adelaide.

Gale, P. 1996, Bulls, Buffaloes and the Spirit of the Territory: The Politics of Representation in Australia’s Northern Territory, Paper presented to The Australian and New Zealand Sociological Association Conference, Hobart, December 1996

Gale, Peter, 1995, ‘A Fair Chance for all?’: Indigenous Rights and Tertiary Education in Australia, Prospects, UNESCO Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, Vol xxv, No 4, December, pp 609-21. Also published in French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese editions of the UNESCO Quarterly review of comparative education, Vol xxv, No 4, December 1995.

Gale, P. 1994, ‘Equity’ Discourse and Aboriginal Participation in Higher Education: The Disadvantaged Other or ‘Indigenous Rights’, International Conference on Education for Cultural Democracy: A Global Perspective, Adelaide, May 1994.

Gale, P. 1993, ‘Aboriginalisation, Rethinking Higher Education: Shifting the Boundaries of Knowledge’, Paper presented to The Australian and New Zealand Sociological Association Conference, Sydney, December 1993.

Gale, P. and Schech, S. 1998, Globalisation, ‘Whiteness’ and the construction of national identity in Australia: The ‘racism debate’, Paper Presented to IBG Conference, London, January 1998.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Sociology

• Australian Studies
• Sociology of 'race' and ethnicity
• Cultural Studies
• Media Studies
• Nationalism and Racism
• Aboriginal Studies