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Mag. Dr. David Mayer

Researcher with "Tackling Empire"

 

Contact
Mail: david.mayer@univie.ac.at


Curriculum Vitae

Publications

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David Mayer is currently affiliated as researcher to the project “Tackling Empire: The Post-Imperial and the Colonial in Austria and Hungary, 1918–1939”, a bilateral Austro-Hungarian research project co-hosted by the Department of Contemporary History. 

His research interests include global intellectual history and the history of knowledge circulation, global labour history, the history of social movements, history of historiography, and the history of currents of political thought and/or practice such as Marxism, neoliberalism, and anti-colonialism. 

David Mayer currently also investigates the history of the Austrian Chamber of Labour’s economic research department (1957–ca. 1972), an institution that played an important role for both the evolution of economic policies and the development of (heterodox) economics in post-war Austria. 

From 2014 to 2016, he acted as executive editor of the International Review of Social History, published by the International Institute for Social History (Amsterdam). Since 2013, David Mayer has been serving as Vice-President of the ITH – International Conference of Labour and Social History. 

David Mayer has spent long research stays in Latin America (Argentina, Mexico, Chile) and earned research fellowships at the Universities of Leipzig, Göttingen, and the Humboldt-University Berlin. 

David Mayer has taught in German, English, and Spanish at academic institutions ranging from the University of Vienna to Johannes Kepler University (Linz) and Webster University (Vienna). From 2019 and 2020 he acted a Visiting Professor for Global History at the University of Vienna and at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle/Paris III for Latin American Contemporary History. 

With several professional experience beyond academia, David Mayer inter alia has worked as editor of the Vienna-based cultural-political magazine Tagebuch – Zeitschrift für Auseinandersetzung (2020–2024).

 

Research interests

  • Global intellectual history
    • History of left-wing intellectuals and Marxist historiographies
    • The Austrian School of Economics and the socialist calculation debates
    • Anticolonialism
  • Global Labour History
  • History of social movements, particularly in Latin America 
  • History of historiography
  • History of Marxisms


Selected publications

  • Stimmen des Antikolonialismus. Eine globalhistorische Spurensammlung 1615–1917, Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2025 (co-edited together with Lucile Dreidemy, Johannes Knierzinger, and Clemens Pfeffer).
  • Nah-ferne Kontrahenten. Mises, die Entstehung der sozialistischen Kalkulationsdebatte und der Nachlass im Moskauer Fonds. Working-Paper-Reihe der AK Wien Nr. 252, Vienna 2024, https://emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:at:at-akw:g-6764465.
  • Changing Degrees of ‘Openness’: Some Considerations on the Development of the Notion of ‘Work’ in Argentinean Labour Historiography. In: Moving the Social 69 (2023), 95–112, DOI: 10.46586/mts.69.2023.95-112.
  • Die österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie als politische Strömung. Working‐Paper‐Reihe der AK Wien Nr. 220, Vienna 2021, https://emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/toc/AC16197783/1/ (together with Berthold Molden).
  • Labour Internationalism in Context Small and Large. In: Stefano Bellucci and Holger Weiss (eds.), The Internationalisation of the Labour Question. Ideological Antagonism, Workers’ Movements and the ILO since 1919, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2020, 411-420 (together with Marcel van der Linden), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28235-6_18.
  • Latin America and the Caribbean. In: Karin Hofmeester/Linden, Marcel van der (Hg.), Handbook Global History of Work, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston 2017, 95–121 (together with Rossana Barragán), DOI: 10.1515/9783110424584-005.
  • Brazilian Labour History – new perspectives in global context. International Review of Social History, vol. 62, Special Issue 25 (2017) (co-edited together with Paulo Fontes and Alexandre Fortes).
  • In the search of cohesion – a comment on „The Third World in the Global 1960s“ by S. Christiansen and Z.A. Scarlett. In: Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relation 11 (2017), Themenheft „Circulations révolutionnaires dans les années 1968“, ed. by Ludivine Bantigny, Boris Gobille, and Eugénia Palieraki, 210–217, DOI: 10.3917/mond1.171.0205.
  • À la fois puissante et marginale: l’Internationale communiste et l’Amérique latine. In: Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations 10 (2016), Special Theme “Dimension transnationale du communism”, ed. by Brigitte Studer und Sabine Dullin, 109-128, DOI: 10.3917/mond1.162.0109.
  • Coming to terms with the past, getting a grip on the future – Manfred Kossok’s interventions into historiographical debates about Latin America during the radicalized 1960s. In: Review, A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 38-1/2 (2015), 15-39, http://www.jstor.org/stable/90017834. 
  • Gute Gründe und doppelte Böden. Zur Geschichte ‚linker‘ Geschichtsschreibung. In: Sozial.Geschichte Online 14 (2014), 62–96, http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-37518/05_Mayer_History.pdf.