Dear  ,

We are excited to announce the official launch of TASA's Cultural Sociology Thematic Group website! This is the new web-based “home” for Cultural Sociology in Australia, and the group look forward to making it a vibrant and informative space. You can also find them on Twitter via @CultSocyTASA! Each month they will be publishing a guest blog post by a member of the thematic group. Fellow member Brad West has helped launch their site with his blog post,  ‘The Other Gallipoli Pilgrim: Islamism and the Rise of Neo-Ottoman Memory Politics in Turkey‘.

A friendly reminder that the deadline for TASA's Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize is next Friday June 30.  This Prize is for the most distinguished peer-reviewed article published by an Early Career Researcher. Academic peer review is used to select a paper of outstanding quality published in any journal during the previous three calendar years (ie the 2017 Award will assess papers that were published from 2014 – 2016). Special consideration may be given to applicants who have experienced a significant ‘career disruption’. Check it out, part of the prize is a complimentary conference registration!                                                              

TASA Celebrating Raewyn Connell’s Jessie Barnard Award at American Sociological Association Meeting in Montreal

TASA is organising a dinner on Sunday 13th August, at the upcoming American Sociological Association Meeting in Montreal, to celebrate with Raewyn Connell her receipt of the prestigious ASA Jessie Barnard Award for 2017. Jessie Barnard’s work ‘inspired feminist sociologists to demand incorporation of women’s lives into sociological theories, research, publications, and professional associations’ and the award is ‘given in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society’.

Any TASA member attending the ASA Meeting is welcome to attend. Please RSVP to Dan Woodman by Friday July 7.

Nexus

Calling all postgraduates!

In the next couple of issues, Nexus is providing space to publish short accounts (up to 500 words) from postgraduate students in sociology and allied disciplines on their research methodology. We would be interested in hearing whether you had to change course methodologically and why, whether theory drove your initial investigations or empirical data. If theory was significant, tell us which theorist(s) and why and whether the theory has sustained you. Accounts of what approach worked for you and why would be especially welcome. Once our readers engage with your accounts, we will provide space in later issues in the ‘letters to the editors’ where these will be published. We will publish up to six pieces in the next issue of Nexus. Successful applicants will be asked to provide a photograph and contact details for themselves.

Submission deadline: July 10 to Eileen Clark, Alexia Maddox, and Peter Robinson, editors.

Journal of Sociology

Special Edition 2019 - Call for Editors

Papers featured in special editions are subject to the normal process of peer review. Selection of papers and coordination of the peer review process will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors. Papers may be selected either on the basis of invitation or via a general ‘call for papers’. Final copy for this special edition is due on the fourth of September, 2018 and publication will be in March 2019.                                                           Expression of Interest deadline: July 31, 2017. Read on...

Members' Publications

Journal Articles

Clancey Garner, Westcott Harriet. “This rabid fight for survival”: Small NGO manager’s experiences of funding reform. Australian Journal of Social Issues. 2017;00:1–17, doi: 10.1002/ajs4.9.

Bourgault du Coudray, C, & Elliott, K (eds) (2017), ‘De-story the joint’, Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, vol. 36.

Elliott, K, & Bourgault du Coudray, C (2017), ‘Introduction: “de-storying the joint”’, Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, vol. 36, pp. 1-4.

Dobson, A.S. Sexting in context: understanding gendered sexual media practices beyond inherent ‘risk’ and ‘harm’. In Cybercrime and its Victims. Edited by E. Martellozzo and E. Jane. Routledge

Report

Petra Bueskens, 'Poverty-traps and pay-gaps: why (single) mothers need basic income' in Views of a Universal Basic Income: Perspectives from across Australia, The Greens Institute, pp. 42-51.

Informed News & Analysis

Alan Morris: Sydney public housing evictions a policy success? Only if you ignore the high human cost, The Conversation

Robyn Moore: History textbooks still imply that Australians are white, The Conversation

James Arvanitakis: Free textbooks for first-year university students could help improve retention rates, The Conversation

Joshua Roose: Why Saudi Arabia’s football team didn’t observe a minute’s silence for London attack victims, The Advertiser

Joshua Roose: Saudi football says sorry after team did not observe one minute silence for London attack victims at Socceroos game, International Business Times

Blogs

Erin Carlise: Featured Member Profile: Erin Carlisle (Postgrad sub-committee initiative)

Brad West: The Other Gallipoli Pilgrim: Islamism and the Rise of Neo-Ottoman Memory Politics in Turkey 

Deborah Lupton: Social media and self-representation in health and medical domains

TASA Events

Sociology of Religion Symposium

Chasms and Bridges: Religion and Secularity in a Polarised World                     29th September: Western Sydney University City Campus                                                             Key Note Addresses: Professor Marion Maddox and Associate Professor Alphia Possamai-Inesedy    

Bursaries: 8 travel bursaries are available for rural and out-of-state post-graduate students and unwaged/unaffiliated ECRs (up to 5 years post-PhD) of up to $150. If you would like to apply for a bursary, please provide a short statement indicating your place of residence, details of your student status/candidature (for post-graduate students), or details of your PhD award and current work status (for ECRs). You must be a TASA member to be eligible for a bursary. Please send your expressions of interest and bursary applications to rosemary.hancock@nd.edu.au by 18 August 2017.  Read on...                                                        

Sociology and Animals Symposium

Development for Species: Animals in society, animals as society              Deakin University, Melbourne City campus, September 18-19,                                           Submission deadline: Next Friday June 30. Read on...

Postgraduate scholarship: With the support of TASA, the Sociology & Animals Thematic Group will be offering 3 postgraduate scholarships valued at $150 each. Potential scholarship winners will need to be registered TASA postgraduate members & located outside of Melbourne. If you wish to be considered for a postgraduate scholarship please indicate this in the same email as your abstract submission.

2017 TASA Health Day

Mobilising health sociology for impact: How can complex understandings of injustice and inequality be used in policy and practice?                                            Friday 13th October 2017, UNSW Sydney                                                                                       Submission deadline: July 19. Read on...

Travel Bursaries Award: The Health thematic group has obtained funding through TASA to award 5 travel bursaries of $150 to postgraduates or casual and unwaged staff (who must be TASA members and living outside of Sydney) to attend the symposium. The recipients of the bursaries will be eligible for reimbursements to the value of $150 for travel expenses related to attending the symposium. You do not have to be presenting a paper to receive an award. However, those who have submitted an abstract will be given priority. If you wish to apply for a travel bursary please email for more information, Sophie Lewis (sophie.lewis@unsw.edu.au).

Youth Symposium

Research Methods in Youth Studies: Doing ‘Difference Differently’  Wednesday 22 November, 2017, University of Melbourne                                                        Invited speakers: Greg Noble, Anita Harris,  Pam Nilan,  Julia Coffey,  Brady Robards Submission deadline: July 31. Read on...

Crime & Governance Symposium

Politics and Crime Control in the 21st Century: Controversies and Challenges The symposium will be held at the UoN Sydney campus (Elizabeth St, Sydney) on the 22nd September 2017.                                                                                                                                           Keynotes: Eileen Baldry & Lana Sandas                                                                                                      Some travel bursaries to postgraduates or casual and unwaged staff to attend the symposium are available.                                                                                                                     Submission deadline: Extended to August 4. Read on...

Call for Chapters

New: Call for Chapters in English for Edited Volume: Rethinking Childhoods in Africa: An Anthology.                                                                                                                                                    Submissions of abstracts and drafts: June 30. Read on...

New: Call for Chapters in English for Edited Volume: “In the Name of God?” Religious Fundamentalism in Africa.                                                                                                                     Submissions of abstracts and drafts: June 30. Read on...

Grants

The Capstone Editing Early Career Academic Research Grant for Women https://www.capstoneediting.com.au/research-grant.

International Sociological Association

Letter from Michael Burawoy, Editor of Global Dialogue

June 15, 2017

The June issue of Global Dialogue (GD7.2) has now been posted. We lead with Walden Bello’s shocking exposé of the dictatorship of President Duterte of the Philippines. Apart from documenting the atrocities of Duterte’s Regime, Bello explores the parallels with the Third Reich.  There follows a collection of articles by the outstanding Pakistani sociologists and anthropologists at the Lahore University of Management Sciences – articles on migration to the Middle East, gender violence and work, and the politics of infrastructure, as well as two articles on the Pakistani diaspora in the United Kingdom. And then we have another collection on Canadian sociology, pointing to its engagement with policy issues, despite open hostility to sociology from the previous conservative Prime Minister. We also have three moving tributes to one of sociology’s prophets – the world-renowned, Zygmunt Bauman. Then, we have the first of what will be a series of articles on life under Trump – this one concerns the defense of undocumented immigrants. And the Argentinian editorial team writes about the challenges of translation into Spanish.

SAANZ

Fellow member Steve Matthewman, who is one of the JoS Editors in Chief and the current president of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ)  has recently been part of the launch of SANNZ's new website. 

CHASS Prizes

2017 will mark the fourth year of the annual Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Prizes. The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sectors, including academics, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students.                                                                                                                                 Submission deadline: next Friday June 30. Read on...

Other Events

Scholarships - TASA 2017 Conference

You may be eligible to apply for a TASA 2017 conference scholarship. It includes registration and travel funding. The deadline for all scholarships is September 30​. Full details on each one is accessible via the links below:

• Postgraduate Conference Scholarship
• Conference Scholarship for TASA Members with Disabilities  
• The Jerzy Zubrzycki Postgraduate Conference scholarship
• ​​Conference Scholarship for Sociology in Action   

ISA World Congress, Torronto, 2018

Sociology, Theory and Complementary and Alternative Medicine                      XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                     Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018.                                                                                                            RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)                                                                                                  Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Forms of Collectivity Among Contemporary Youth 
XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                     Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018.                                                                                                         RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee)                                                                                                    Submission deadline: September 30. Read on... 

War, the Military and Societal Transformation                                                  XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                     Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018.                                                                                                             RC16 Sociological Theory (host committee)                                                                                          Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Continuity and Change in the Family Life Course (9895)                             Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018.                                                                                                           RC06 Family Research (host committee)                                                                                         Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Experiences of and Responses to Disempowerment, Violence and Injustice within the Relational Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Two Spirited (LGBTQ2) People                                                                       XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                     Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018.                                                                                                              RC06 Family Research (host committee)                                                                                         Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...  

Workshops

New: Workshop for ECRs and HDR students on framing research questions and methods                                                                                                                 Guest speaker: Pro José Casanova                                                                                TOMORROW Friday 23 June, 1pm – 230pm                                                                                    Meeting room 2, Level 6, 215 Spring St, Melbourne (near corner Lonsdale St)

Seminars

New:  Alcohol and other drug treatment in prison                                       Presenter: Michael Doyle, University of Sydney                                                     Thursday, 6 July, 2pm-3pm, Sarich Way, Bentley, WA                                                                           This Aboriginal-led PhD project investigated the experiences of 31 men (14 Aboriginal and 17 non-Aboriginal) of prison-based AoD treatment programs. The results and findings for this research will be reported in this presentation, which will also include findings from a systematic review of international peer-reviewed literature in prison-based AoD treatment research. Read on...

Other Conferences

New: The interpretation of global politics: methods and epistemologies after the event                                                                                                                   Canberra,  2-3 November                                                                                                                       Submission deadline: July 30. Read on...

Respect Existence or Expect Resistance                                                                                   Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand                                                             6-10 December, Dunedin, New Zealand                                                                                                        Submission deadline:  September 10.  Read on...

Association of Industrial Relations Academics, Australia and New Zealand conference (AIRAANZ)  'Jobs and Change in Uncertain Times' : 32nd Annual AIRAANZ Conference 
Adelaide, South Australia
7-9 February 2018                                                                                                                                               Submission deadline: 15 September 2017 Read on...

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