Members' Newsletter 

Dear  ,

This week's newsletter is filled with an array of news items and resources. Enjoy!

Congratulations

A warm congratulations to our 2016 award winners:

2016 Stephen Crook Memorial Prize and the             2016 Raewyn Connell Prize

Joel Windle was the winner of both book prizes this year for his book, Making Sense of School Choice: Politics, Policies, and Practice under Conditions of Cultural Diversity

Sociology in Action Award

Yoland Wadsworth was the 2016 winner of this award, which recognizes contributions to the practice of sociology outside of academic settings. It is conferred on a TASA member who has made an outstanding contribution to sociological practice in Australia.

Journal of Sociology Best Paper Award

Roach Anleu, Sharyn and Kathy Mack (2015) ‘Performing Authority: Communicating Judicial Decisions in Lower Criminal Courts’ 51(4) Journal of Sociology 1052-1069.

Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize

Cheng, J. (2015)  Islamophobia, Muslimophobia or racism? Parliamentary discourses on Islam and Muslims in debates on the minaret ban in Switzerland, 26(5) Discourse & Society

Employment Opportunities

The University of Sydney is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Qualitative Research in Health to ensure sustainable, high quality and flexible provision of qualitative health research teaching within the Sydney School of Public Health. Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment and search by the reference number 1920/1116 for more information and to apply.                                                                                                                Application deadline: 2 January 2017. Read on...

The School of Social and Political Sciences, at The University of Melbourne,  is seeking a Level B Lecturer in Sociology through the Melbourne Early Career Academic Fellowship program (MECAF). The successful applicant will complete a structured development programme provided by the University within their workload allocation. This programme provides training, supervision and appropriate career and professional development opportunities towards establishing an academic career.                   Application deadline: 8 January 2017.  Read on...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore invite applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Sociology from candidates with expertise in the sociology of ageing/social gerontology. Candidates should possess a PhD in Sociology or a related social-science discipline at the time of appointment, demonstrable evidence of excellence in research and teaching, and a commitment to university service. The University emphasizes cutting-edge research and teaching and boasts strong support for each. The successful applicant is expected to teach in English at both undergraduate and graduate levels.                                                                                                                                         Application deadline: 30 December 2016. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Journal Articles

Bouma, G. (2016). The role of demographic and socio-cultural factors in Australia’s successful multicultural society: How Australia is not Europe, Journal of Sociology

Fozdar, F. (2016). Asian invisibility/Asian threat: Australians talking about Asia, Journal of Sociology

Cannizzo, F., & Osbaldiston, N. (2016). Academic work/life balance: A brief quantitative analysis of the Australian experience, Journal of Sociology

Matthew Wade (2016). Seeker-friendly: The Hillsong megachurch as an enchanting total institution, Journal of Sociology

Ting, S,. Perales, F., & Baxter, J. (2016), Gender, ethnicity and the division of household labour within heterosexual couples in Australia,  Journal of Sociology

Spies-Butcher, B., & Stebbing, A. (2016). Climate change and the welfare state? Exploring Australian attitudes to climate and social policy,  Journal of Sociology

Broom, A., Broom, J., Kirby, E., & Adams, J. (2016). The social dynamics of antibiotic use in an Australian hospital,  Journal of Sociology

Wendy Heywood, Anthony Lyons, Bianca Fileborn, Victor Minichiello, Catherine Barrett, Graham Brown, Sharron Hinchliff, Sue Malta and Pauline Crameri (2016). Self-reported testing and treatment histories among older Australian men and women who may be at risk of a sexually transmissible infection, Sexual Health

Drabowicz, Tomasz (2017) "Social Theory of Internet Use: Corroboration or Rejection among the Digital Natives? Correspondence Analysis of Adolescents in Two Societies", Computers & Education, Vol. 105, February, pp 57–67. 

McKenzie, Lara 2016. ‘Love from afar: Transcending distance and difference in age-dissimilar couplings?’, Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Special issue: ‘Peripheral cosmopolitanisms’, George, Molly, Fitzgerald, Ruth P., & Jaye, Chrystal (eds), pp. 198-221.

Pienaar, K., Moore, D., Fraser, S., Kokanovic, R., Treloar, C. and Dilkes-Frayne, E. (2016). Diffracting addicting binaries: An analysis of personal accounts of alcohol and other drug 'addiction'. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine,early online DOI: 10.1177/1363459316674062

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

Stewart Lockie: Why give the Green Army its marching orders? The Conversation

Alexandra Gibson, Alex Broom & Zarnie Lwin: ‘It’s your fault you got cancer’: the blame game that doesn’t help anyone, The Conversation

Maurizio Labbate, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, Erica Donner & Roisin McMahon: Why the health and agriculture sectors need to work together to stop antibiotic resistance, The Conversation

Petra Bueskens: Why We Grieved For Hillary Clinton And Who Defends ‘Western Values’ Anyway? New Matilda

Andrew Jakubowicz :First the word, then the deed: how an ‘ethnocracy’ like Australia works, The Conversation

Dina Bowman and Marcus Banks: ‘We lost the house, we lost everything’: what dealing with financial stress looks like, The Conversation

Catherine Strong: ARIA there yet? Causes galore and some poop talk at the music industry awards, The Conversation

Catherine Strong: Smash it up, burn it down: should Joe Corré set fire to punk history this weekend? The Conversation

Blogs

James Arvanitakis : Education Blog: Graduate Attributes for 2017 and beyond

Podcasts

Katies Hughes: TASA2016 Presidential address

Doug Ezzy: Governing Religious Diversity in Australia

Theresa Petray and Nick Pendergrast: Experimental Utopias and Social Change: Examples from Australian Non-Hegemonic Activism (Power Point slides - Experimental Utopias and Social Change: Examples from Australian Non-Hegemonic Activism)

Nick Pendergrast: Rescuing Dogs in a Mercedes-Benz: Animal Advocacy in China (Power Point slides - Rescuing Dogs in a Mercedes-Benz: Animal Advocacy in China)

Barry Shannon: "Kids don't want to be freaks": Transgender and gender diverse young people’s views on queer-affirming teaching practices’.

Deb King & Christy Newman: Work life balance in academia

Gary Bouma, Marion Maddox,  Bryan Turner,  Lori Beaman. The John Western Memorial Plenary at the TASA 2016 Conference.
"Religion, Cities, Secularism, and Violence"

Carrie Connolly: #TASA2016 "Coming out on YouTube" 

James Arvanitakis (joint recipient of the peoples' award), Tom Barnes. Paul James, Louise Keogh.  Jo Lindsay, Ben O'Mara recipient of the judges' award), Alan Scott & Vivienne Waller (joint recipient of the peoples' award): The Inaugural TASA and CHASS Speed dating for Sociology Researchers

Videos

Dan Woodman & Bryan Turner: TASA 2016 Open Plenary

Safer Schools for LGBTIQ People and their Families: A panel organised by the Families and Relationships Thematic Group (FRG) at TASA2016 to explore Safer Schools for LGBTIQ People and their families. The four presenters include:

• Jennifer Power - Rainbow Families in Schools;
• Lucy Nicholas -  Safe Schools Coalition and Enabling Relationality;
• Tiffany Jones - Safe(r) Schools and Families for Students with Intersex Variations; and
• Elisabeth Smith - Exploring indicators of safe schools for gender diverse and transgender young people in Australia in the context of relationships with parents and peers

Events

Book Launch

TODAY 6 – 8 pm, Level 1, 66 King Street, Sydney 

James Arvanitakis is launching WORKS, a beautiful 336 page hardback coffee table book co-authored by Professor James Arvanitakis and Ralph Hobbs. The publication features over 300 works painted by the artist during his 30+ year career. Signed copies of the book will be available on the night.

Funding for Women's Leadership Development

Women & Leadership Australia have scholarships are available across three key management levels.                                                                                                                                   Applications close: December 22. Read on...

Symposiums

Consumer & Consumption @ Yale Symposium                                                                                 March 31, 2017                                                                                                                                             Abstract submission deadline: December 15. Read on...

GPN-Labour Symposium  
Global Production Networks in the Spotlight: Chains or Opportunities for Workers?                                                                                                                        14 February, 2017. Macquarie University, Sydney                                                                                  Submission deadline: December 12.  Read on...

Conferences

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)                                                                                 July 6- 8, 2017 Copenhagen                                                                                                                                 Sub-theme 69: Organization Studies and Industrial Relations: Overlapping Concerns and New Possibilities The stream seeks to promote the dialogue between labour relations and wider scholarship in organisation studies. They are looking for a broad range of contributions and would like to have some more submissions with a sociological bent. Read on...

New Economic Sociology and Sociology: Where Do They Meet? Where Do They Diverge?                                                                                                               8-9 May 2017 in Warsaw, Poland                                                                                                    Submission deadline: December 10. Read on...

Making alcohol and other drug realities                                                     Contemporary Drug Problems                                                                                                                      23-25 August, 2017. Helsinki, Finland                                                                                              Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2017. Read on...

XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                 Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities                            Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. Read on...

The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) invites submissions for the 67th Annual Meeting, to be held August 11-13, 2017, at the Montreal Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal, Quebec Canada.                                                                                                                   Submission deadline: January 31, 2017.  Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal                                                           Special Issue Contemporary Boys’ Literacies / Boys’ Literatures                         First draft submissions deadline: February 1, 2017. Read on...

Future-Proofing Higher Education: towards the Citizen Scholar                               Active Learning in Higher Education                                                                                                Submission deadline: 1 February 2017. Read on...

Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities                                                                                        Special issue on Cultural and Social Anthropology, to be published in December 2017. Abstract submission deadline: December 15. Read on...

Sport, Feminism, and the Global South                                                                          Sociology of Sport Journal                                                                                           Guest editors: Kim Toffoletti and Catherine Palmer                                                    Submission deadline: March 1, 2017. Read on...

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