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This week, we'd like to highlight another Award that TASA bestows, the Outstanding Service to TASA Award. This honour is accorded to a TASA member who has demonstrated an outstanding level of participation in and promotion of TASA over a number of years. There are many ways in which this can occur, but in all cases the quality of the service is the determining criterion, rather than the quantity alone. Nominations close on May 31. Read on...

Members' Publications

Journal Articles

Paul Henman, Scott D Brown & Simon Dennis (2017). When rating systems do not rate: Evaluating ERA’s performance. Australian University Review, Volume 59, Number 1

Ballantyne, G. and L. Burke (2017). "“People live in their heads a lot”: Polymedia, life course, and meanings of home among Melbourne’s older Irish community." Transnational Social Review: 1-15. 

Matthew Bun (2017). Defining the edge: choice, mastery and necessity in edgework practice. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 

Michelle Peterie (2017) Docility and desert: Government discourses of compassion in Australia’s asylum seeker debate, Journal of Sociology

Rachael Wallis (2017): Myths and imaginaries: depictions of lifestyle migration in Country Style magazine, Rural Society, DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2017.1285471

Fabian Cannizzo (2017) ‘You’ve got to love what you do’: Academic labour in a culture of authenticity. Sociological Review

Banks, M. and Tennant, D. (2016), Community worker perceptions of the Income Management regime in Shepparton. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 51: 419–432. doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.2016.tb01241.x

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

David Rowe: Prize fight over live-streamed sport will go on long after the final bell sounds, The Conversation

Karen Fisher: Shared ownership can help make housing affordable for people with disability, The Conversation

Karen Willis & Sophie Lewis: Increased private health insurance premiums don’t mean increased value, The Conversation

James Arvanitakis, Lauren Stanley, Trina Jorre de St Jorre: Young women can budget in the short term but struggle with long-terminvestments: survey, The Conversation

Podcasts

Xiaoying Qi discusses her paper  Social Movements in China: Augmenting Mainstream Theory with Guanxi. Click here to listen to the podcast. 

Italian Sociological Review

The latest issue of Italian Sociological Review (Vol.7, n.1) can be viewed here.

Last call: New Thematic Group

Sociology of Animals: call for members

TASA's thematic groups are designed to facilitate communication and collaboration between TASA members working/studying in similar areas. Every so often, a new one is formed. Presently, there is a 'Call for interest to form a Sociology and Animals Thematic Group'. If you are interested in this area, please direct your enquiries to Zoei or Nicholas by February 20th.  Instructions to select this thematic group via your My Accounts page can be accessed here.  If there are 15 members interested in this new proposed group, Zoei and Nicholas will submit a request for the first 2017 Executive Meeting.

International Center for the Sociology of Religion

The recently founded “International Center for the Sociology of Religion” International Association is a non-profit group set up to examine in depth and support knowledge of religions, with a view to organizing scholarly and social activities aimed at gaining scientific and comparative knowledge of religions. The Association also aims at promoting the training of young scholars in the field of the sociology of religion. Read on...

Competition for Junior Sociologists

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has announced the organization of the Seventh Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists. The winners will be invited to participate in the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology which will take place in Toronto, Canada in July 2018. Junior Scholars mean people who obtained their first Master's degree (or an equivalent graduate diploma) in sociology or in a related discipline, less than 10 years prior to March 31, 2017.                                                                                                      Submission deadline: March 31. Read on...

Events

Workshop

 Mixed Race in Asia and Australasia: Migrations, Mobilities and Belonging                                    12 - 13 October, Singapore                                                                                                                                Paper submission deadline: April 1 . Read on... 

Symposiums

Digital Food Cultures symposium                                                                                                  Friday 20 October, University of Canberra                                                                                                   This symposium is directed at the social, cultural, political and ethical dimensions of representations and practices related to using digital technologies for food production, consumption, preparation, eating out, promoting healthy diets or weight loss, marketing, ethical consumption, food activism and environmental and sustainability politics.             Abstract submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

Conferences

International conference and master lectures                                                                                               The Human Person in View of Contempory Civilisational Processes                       March 29 - 30, the Faculty of Historical and Social Sciences at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.  The official language of the conference will be Polish and English. Read on...

Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies                                                                                 November 15-18, 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago - Chile                                                                                              Call for papers open. Read on...

8th Urban Space and Social Life:  Theory and Practice                                          Transforming Urbanity: People and Cities on the Move                                         9 - 12 June, Malyasia                                                                                                       Call for Papers, Photos for Exhibition, and Photo Essays                                        Submission deadline: March 31. Read on...

Education Transforms 2017: Raising aspirations for educational attainment.   Hobart – Tasmania, Australia 11-15 July.   This international meeting brings together scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners to reflect on and share insights about our collective mission to raise aspirations and enhance opportunities for educational attainment.                                                                                                                                                             Abstract submission deadline: 28 February. Read on...

Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South: An International Conference”                                                                                                                                                           Co-hosted by the Crime and Justice Research Centre (QUT) and the Asian Criminological Society                                                                                                                                                                           10-13th July 2017, Shangri-La Hotel, Cairns, Australia                                                             Abstract submission deadline: 31 March. Read on...

Social Boundaries of Work. Methodological and Practical Problems of Research on Work and Employment in Modern Societies                                   27-28 of October, Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Calling for panel proposals for the ‘IRiS International Conference 2017: Global Perspectives on Research Co-production with Communities:  Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies’. The Institute for Research into Super Diversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham and will be hosting its 4th annual conference in partnership with The Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne at the University of Birmingham on 14th and 15th September 2017. Go to the conference website for more details.

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...

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...

Call for Papers - Journals

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

Newsletter Submissions

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