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The submission deadline for TASA 2017, Perth, closes TOMORROW June 16, midnight AEST.
As mentioned last week, deadlines for several of TASAs Awards and Scholarships are also fast approaching. Full details on each of them can be accessed via the links below:
AWARDS
Deadline: June 15
Deadline: June 30
SCHOLARSHIPS
Deadline for Abstracts/Papers: June 15
Deadline for scholarship applications: September 30
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
Books
Stephen Castles (2017) Migration, Citizenship and Identity: Selected Essays. Edward Elgar.
Stephen Castles provides a deeper understanding of recent ‘migration crises’ in this fascinating and highly topical work. The book links theory and methodology to real-world migration experiences, with a truly global perspective and in-depth analysis of the links between economics, migration and asylum and refugee issues.
Juliet Watson (2017) Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex : Intimate Relationships and Gendered Subjectivities. Routledge.
Survival sex, commonly understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, is a practice that is associated with young homeless women. However, such a narrow definition of survival sex fails to recognise the multiple, complex, and co-existing motivations of young homeless women for engaging in intimate relationships in post-industrial capitalist society.
Fiona Simon (2017). Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
Meta-regulation presents itself as a progressive policy approach that can manage complexity and conflicting objectives better than traditional command and control regulation. It does this by ‘harnessing’ markets and enlisting a broad range of stakeholders to reach a more inclusive view of the public interest that a self-regulating business can then respond to.
Congratulations
Our warm congratulations are extended to one of the 2017 LOC members, Catriona Stevens, on her first publications, see below:
Stevens, C. (2017) ‘Now I can never go back’: The thwarted returns of temporary labour migrants from China in Perth, Western Australia, Transitions: Journal of Temporary Migration 1(1): 65-83
Book Review
Zlatko Skrbiš (2017) P. Beilharz, T. Hogan and S. Shaver, The Martin Presence: Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia, Journal of Sociology
Journal Articles
Stefanie Plage, Indigo Willing, Zlatko Skrbiš, Ian Woodward (2017) Australianness as fairness: implications for cosmopolitan encounters, Journal of Sociology
Michelle Peterie (2017) Docility and desert: Government discourses of compassion in Australia’s asylum seeker debate, Journal of Sociology
Jacqueline Laughland-Booÿ, Zlatko Skrbiš, Bruce Tranter (2017) Narratives of nationhood: Young Australians’ concepts of nation and their attitudes towards ‘boat people’, Journal of Sociology
John G Scott, Jodie Grigg, Monica Barratt, Simon Lenton (2017) Social capital and cannabis supply, Journal of Sociology
Vivienne Waller (2017) Engaging students and their publics through making sociological films, Journal of Sociology
Juliet Watson, Hernán Cuervo (2017) Youth homelessness: A social justice approach, Journal of Sociology
Mara A. Yerkes, Bill Martin, Janeen Baxter, Judy Rose (2017) An unsettled bargain? Mothers’ perceptions of justice and fairness in paid work, Journal of Sociology
Johanna Wyn, Hernán Cuervo, Jessica Crofts, Dan Woodman (2017) Gendered transitions from education to work: The mysterious relationship between the fields of education and work, Journal of Sociology
Lesley Pruitt (2017) Youth, politics, and participation in a changing world, Journal of Sociology
Alan Morris (2017) “It was like leaving your family”: Gentrification and the impacts of displacement on public housing tenants in inner-Sydney, Australian Journal of Social Issues
Alan Morris (2017) The removal of Millers Point public housing tenants in inner-Sydney by the New South Wales government: Narratives of government and tenants, Urban Policy and Research
Abidin, Crystal. 2017. “#familygoals: Family Influencers, Calibrated Amateurism, and Justifying Young Digital Labour.” Social Media + Society 3(2): 1-15. DOI: 10.1177/2056305117707191
Garth Stahl (2017). Constituting neoliberal subjects? ‘Aspiration’ as technology of government in UK policy discourse, Journal of Education Policy
Informed News & Analysis
Alex Broom: You should care about your doctor’s health, because it matters to yours, The Conversation
Blogs
Alan Scott: Dominate Theory
TASA Events
TASA 2017
Submissions focussing on the conference theme of ‘Belonging in a Mobile World’, as well as other areas of interest to TASA thematic groups, are invited. The mobilities turn in sociology has generated questions about different modes of belonging in a world characterised by global flows and precarities. The media report growing levels of permanent and temporary migration, undocumented migration, and movements of people seeking asylum. Governments respond, opening borders, curtailing movement. While becoming hypermobile, superdiverse, and cosmopolitan, immobility is a lived reality for many. Submissions deadline: EXTENDED to TOMORROW June 16. Read on...
Please note: information on Childcare is available on the conference site here.
Sociology and Animals Symposium
Development for Species: Animals in society, animals as society Deakin University, Melbourne City campus, September 18-19, Submission deadline: 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...
Sociology of Economic Life and Work, Employment and Social Movements Workshop
Ten years since the global financial crisis: Social movements, labour & the crisis last time Concurrently in Perth - Melbourne - Sydney Fri 1st December, 2017 Keynote: Dick Bryan Submission deadline: TODAY June 15. Read on...
International Sociological Association
XVth ISA International Laboratory for PhD Students in Sociology
Struggles for Substantive Citizenship, Community Building in Troubled Times for Democracy
September 17-23, Poznan, Poland The local host and the International Sociological Association will cover travel and lodging expenses (including meals at the Laboratory) for the participants.
Application deadline: TODAY June 15. Read on...
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: June 30. Read on...
Other Events
TASA 2017 Conference
TASA's Annual Conference Belonging in a Mobile World, 27 - 30 November, Perth Submission deadline: EXTENDED to TOMORROW June 16. Read on...
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...
Other Conferences
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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