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The latest edition of Nexus was published this week. You can view all of the articles in edition 30:1 via the Nexus website. 

Employment Opportunities

Postdoctoral Fellow

Australian National University, Canberra                                                                    The position will support an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant exploring “Lactation After Loss: Breastmilk suppression , expression and donation in contemporary motherhood and health care delivery” held by Dr Katherine Carroll and Professor Catherine Waldby in the School of Sociology and the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU and will be located in the School of Sociology.                                                                  Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Fellow 

Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Indooroopilly      Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course                                                                                                        Applicants should possess PhD (or close to completion) in relevant field (e.g. sociology, demography, economics, psychology, social statistics or a related area). You will have research experience across one or more of the following areas:  family dynamics, life course studies, gender inequality, social  disadvantage/inequality. Ideal applicants will have demonstrated expert knowledge on empirical research methods.                    Application deadline: April 25. Read on...

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

Medical Cannabis

Applications for a University of Queensland PhD Scholarship ($27,082 per annum) on medicinal cannabis are now open. The successful applicant will be supervised by Health Sociologist Dr Rebecca Olson, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, as they complete a qualitative study into palliative care patients’ perceptions of medical cannabis as part of an NHMRC study on medicinal cannabis in patients with advanced cancer. Experience in conducting qualitative research and a background in the social sciences and health (e.g., health sociology, medical anthropology, criminology, critical public health) are desired. Please contact Rebecca Olson for further information: r.olson@uq.edu.au .

Interfaith Movement in Australia

Applications for a University of Tasmania PhD Scholarship on the Interfaith Movement in Australia are now open. This project is one part of a larger ARC Discovery project on religious diversity in Australia led by Douglas Ezzy (University of Tasmania), Gary Bouma (Monash University), Greg Barton and Anna Halafoff (both from Deakin University). The PhD project involves a study of the interfaith movement in Australia, focusing on evaluating their impact on responses to religious diversity. The project involves research with leaders and activists in the Australian interfaith movement about the benefits of and challenges faced in their activities and their experience of liaising with state actors, including police and the media. The PhD is at the University of Tasmania and will be supervised by Professor Douglas Ezzy and Dr Anna Halafoff. Read on...

TASA 2018

One of the keynotes at TASA 2018 will be Nira Yuval-Davis. Nira is a Professor Emeritus, Honorary Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London. She has been the President of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and the international research network on Women In Militarized Conflict Zones and has acted as a consultant for various UN and human rights organisations.

Nira Yuval-Davis has won the 2018 International Sociological Association Distinguished Award for Excellence in Research and Practice. She has written widely on intersected gendered nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and everyday bordering. Among her books Woman-Nation-State, 1989, Racialized Boundaries, 1992, Unsettling Settler Societies, 1995, Gender and Nation,1997, The Warning Signs of Fundamentalism, 2004, The Politics of Belonging, 2011, Women Against Fundamentalism, 2014 and Bordering (Forthcoming). Her works have been translated into more than ten languages.

Call for plenary participants

Doing research on the academy, on academic precarity and/or changes in academic work? Fran Collyer is organising a plenary on these issues for the next annual TASA conference, and would be pleased to hear from you. Please do not concern yourself with funding for attending the conference at this stage. Contact Fran.Collyer@sydney.edu.au

Posters

If you would like to present at TASA 2018, and you are not an Honours student or above, you are invited to submit a poster presentation. More details about this will be available soon.

Health Sociology Review

Call for New Editorial Team

Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal Health Sociology Review for the four-year term 2019–2022. Transition arrangements will begin in 2018, although the content for the first issue of 2019 will be finalised by the out-going editors. Submissions due: June 29. Read on...

Journal of Sociology

Call for Submissions

Special Edition 2020: The Journal of Sociology is an international journal published four times a year by Sage. Each year the Editors invite expressions of interest from the international community of sociological scholars in guest editing a Special Edition of the Journal. Special Editions may address any sociological theme which is likely to be of interest to the Journal readership.                                                                Expressions of Interests due: July 9. Read on...

Latest First 'On Line' 

Peta Cook (2018). Continuity, change and possibility in older age: Identity and ageing-as-discovery. Journal of Sociology. Apr 4, 2018 | OnlineFirst

Bernard Gardiner (2018). Grit and stigma: Gay men ageing with HIV in regional Queensland. Journal of Sociology. Apr 4, 2018 | OnlineFirst

Cassie Curryer, Mel Gray, Julie E. Byles (2018). Back to my old self and life restarting: Biographies of ageing in Beck’s risk society. Journal of Sociology. Apr 4, 2018 | OnlineFirst

Barbara Barbosa Neves, Jenny Waycott, Sue Malta (2018). Old and afraid of new communication technologies? Reconceptualising and contesting the ‘age-based digital divide’. Journal of Sociology. Apr 4, 2018 | OnlineFirst

Raelene Wilding, Loretta Baldassar (2018). Ageing, migration and new media: The significance of transnational care. Journal of Sociology. Apr 4, 2018 | OnlineFirst

Content Alerts

For instructions on how to set up the Table of Contents email alerts for the Journal of Sociology, please right click here and open them up in a new tab.

2018 Awards

• Stephen Crook Memorial Prize - Closes April 30.  Read on...
• Raewyn Connell Prize - Closes April 30. Read on...
• Outstanding Service to TASA - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Sociology in Action - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize - Closes June 30. Read on...

For details, please go to the Social Sciences Week website. 

TASA members attending ISA 2018 Toronto

Our list of TASA members going to Toronto has reached 46 members.  If you are not on the list below, and you are going to Toronto, please email the TASA Office and we'll include you in next week's newsletter.

Book Chapters

Dados, Nour and Raewyn Connell. 2018. Neoliberalism in world perspective: Southern origins and Southern dynamics. Pp. 28-39 in Damien Cahill, Melinda Cooper, Martijn Konings and David Primrose, ed. The Sage Handbook of Neoliberalism. London: Sage.

Bueskens, P. (2018). ‘Maternal Subjectivity: From Containing to Creating’ in R. Robertson and C. Nelson (Eds). The Book of Dangerous Ideas about Mothers, Perth: UWA Publishing.

Bueskens, P & Toffoletti, K (2018). ‘Mothers, Scholars and Feminists: Inside and Outside the Australian Academic System’ in A. Black & S. Garvis (Eds), Lived Experiences of Women in Academia: Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir, London: Routledge.

Journals - Special Issues

Bowman, D., Kokanović, R., & Parker, J. (eds) (Jan 2018) Representing trauma: Honouring broken narratives. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 17(1): 3-181.

Kokanović, R. (ed) (Dec 2017) Subjectivity and illness narratives. Subjectivity, 10(4): 329-426.

Journal - Articles

See above for the latest release of First On Line articles in Journal of Sociology

Kokanović, R., & Stone, M. (2018) Listening to what cannot be said: Broken narratives and the lived body. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 17(1): 20-31. DOI: 10.1177/1474022217732871.

Božić-Vrbančić, S., Kokanović, R., & Kupsjak, J. (2018) ‘I am tired from all of these feelings’: Narrating suffering in the film ‘Sick’. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 17(1): 69-83. DOI: 10.1177/1474022216684637.

Savic, M., Dilkes-Frayne, E., Carter, A., Kokanović, R., Manning, V., Rodda, S., & Lubman, D. (2018) Making multiple 'online counsellings' through policy and practice: An evidence-making intervention approach. International Journal of Drug Policy, 53: 73-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.12.008. 

Ridge, D., Broom, A., Kokanović, R., Ziebland, S., & Hill N. (2017) Depression at work, authenticity in question: Experiencing, concealing and revealing. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 1-18. DOI: 10.1177/1363459317739437.

Informed News and Analysis

Jack Hynes & Ramon Spaaij, 'Commonwealth Games injuries highlight a problematic culture in elite sports'. The Conversation.

Blogs

Fabian Cannizzo, 'Am I a (Good) Neoliberal?'

Ann Game, 'Easter in Turin'

Ann Game, 'Sunday Lunch'

Deborah Lupton, 'Some findings from my research on Australians’ use of digital health and self-tracking technologies

Zines

Submissions for edition #3 of So Fi, a sociological fiction zine, close on April 15th. So Fi is accepting submissions of short stories, drabbles, poetry, photography, and other creative works. See sofizine.com for details or contact ashleigh.watson@griffithuni.edu.au.

Members' Keynote Invitations

Have you been invited to give a keynote? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can list the details in the weekly newsletter here. 

Raewyn Connell has been invited to speak at the following events this year:

• "On a world scale: New maps of struggle for gender justice", keynote at Gender, Work and Organization conference, Sydney 13-16 June 2018.
• "The economy of destruction and the future we can build", opening plenary at Alternative Futures and Regional Prospects conference, Sydney 22-23 November 2018.
• "Truth, power, pedagogy: feminist knowledge and educational practice", keynote at International Gender and Education Association conference, Newcastle, 9-12 December 2018.

Petra Bueskens has been invited to speak at two overseas events in May:

• Keynote speaker at the ‘Matricentric Feminism’ Conference, Syracuse University Florence, May 2-4, 2018.
• Plenary Panel on ‘Motherhood’ at  The Sexual Contract: 30 years on conference, hosted by School of Law and Politics in conjunction with Feminist Legal Studies, Cardiff University, Wales, May 10-11, 2018.

Brady Robards has been invited to speak at Deakin's ‘First Fridays’ Seminar Series. Brady's talk, May 4, is titled, 'Affective Queer Intensities on Tumblr'.

Promotions

Have you been promoted recently? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can share the details in the weekly newsletter here.

Thematic Groups

Re-imagining economic security & wellbeing in an age of precarity

Workshop for TASA members hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, Employment and Social Movements’ Thematic Groups    Melbourne, Friday 23 November                                                                                        Abstract submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

International Sociological Association

Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) 

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the globaldatabase of sociologists.

GMSSI aims to identify, connect, and enable global collaborations in sociology, and support sociologists who encounter multiple barriers, economic and political, which impede participation in global exchanges.

GMSSI aims to increase the visibility of sociologists and their knowledge production and also be an important resource for sustained interaction with the media on a range of issues.

Your participation is important to the success of GMSSI in building this global sociological community.

To start: Go to https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/gmssi/callforparticipants.cgi where ISA briefly explain what the site is about and where they offer a link to sign in or sign up. You do not need to be a member of ISA to participate. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Call for Book Chapters

New: Provisional title When Students Protest: Politics and Young People             A call for submissions to an edited volume on the topic of student political action.    Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

Seminars

New: Civil Religion and Citizenship: Historical and Contemporary Issues   Bryan S. Turner, Professorial Fellow, IRPS@ACU                                         TODAY:  Thurs 12th April, 2pm-3pm                                                                                      Level 6, 215 Spring St, Melbourne (near corner Lonsdale).    Enquiries: tom.barnes@acu.edu.au or (03) 9953 3931

Displacements: From Everyday Experience to Global Policy - A Monash GPS Public Discussion. Please join Monash GPS & friends as they will be launching the Signs special issue on Displacement.                                                                                                    Monday 07 May 2018, 5:30-8pm, Monash Law Chambers                                                  RSVP deadline: 30 April. Read on...

Symposiums

New: Digital Intimacies 4: Porousness & Permutations
December 5, 6 & 7, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia                              Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Housing & Community Research Unit - Housing, Welfare, Social Policy          Problematic populations: past, present and future                                                     14-15 June, Hobart                                                                                                                Submission deadline: TOMORROW April 13. Read on...

Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities in Oceania                                          Keynote Speaker: Debra McDougall (Melbourne University) -‘Crashing waves: The transnational force of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Oceania and beyond’  17-18 of August, Parramatta                                                                                              Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Surveys - Call for Volunteers

TASA members Alan Petersen and Kiran Pienaar, both from Monash University, are conducting research into the use of testing in healthcare. As part of this study, they are calling for volunteers to complete a short online survey. They are looking for those who have participated, or been invited to participate, in bowel, breast or cervical cancer screening & those who have recently undergone, or considered undergoing, a medical test. See, Online survey: Experiences of health testing and screening.  

Call for Book Proposals

A new Palgrave book series edited by TASA members Kim Toffoletti (Deakin) and Holly Thorpe (U.Waikato, NZ) (along with Jessica Francombe-Webb, U.Bath, UK) is seeking book proposals. The series, titled ‘New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures’, welcomes proposals that investigate gender identities and assemblages in sport, physical culture and fitness contexts. For more details please contact kim.toffoletti@deakin.edu.au or follow this link.

Call for Papers

New: Contention - The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest. Contention accepts research articles with novel findings, critical review articles (4,000 to 7,000 words, including notes and references), theoretical essays, and book reviews (800 to 1,200 words). Contention also accepts commentaries aiming at increasing interdisciplinary debate between authors. Academics may propose a commentary to one of the articles published or may be invited by the editors to comment on an article submitted for publication. Read on...

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change is an international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed and open access journal. It aims to publish excellent cultural analysis from a range of perspectives. It welcomes innovative and original conceptual and empirical research drawn from a number of disciplines including sociology, social theory, cultural studies, history, cultural anthropology and media studies. Read on...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Seminar Series

Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street, Tower 2, Docklands, Victoria. The seminars are held on the first Friday of every month. Fellow member Brady Robards is scheduled to speak on Friday May 4. The full list of speakers for the year can be viewed here.

Deakin's new Gender & Sexuality Studies blog can be viewed here. 

Conferences

New: Frontiers and Border Regions                                                                  November 28 - 30, 2018. Beja (Tunisia)                                                                          Submission deadline: June 30. Read on... 

New: DIGITAL CULTURES: Knowledge / Culture / Technology                            Leuphana University Lüneburg, September 19–22                                                          A stunning line up of international speakers across critical questions of digital economies, ecologies, subjectivity, collectivity and futures.                                                                 Extended submission deadline: April 15. Read on...

New: 9th Urban Space and Social Life:  Theory and Practice - Development and Heritage: Present, Past, and Future                                                                              June 7 - June 10
Budapest, Hungary. Corvinus University of Budapest                                                Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific                                   This year’s conference will explore the increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain world that young people across the Asia Pacific live in.                                                                  15 – 16 November,  Deakin Downtown, Melbourne                                                            Keynote speakers include fellow members Shanthi Robertson and Crystal Abidin Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

Oceania Ethnography and Education Network  - for scholars interested in the socio-cultural analysis of education.                                                                                                16-17 August 2018 at Deakin Downtown (Melbourne, Vic)                                          Submission deadline: May 1. Read on...

International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe 16-19th of November, Chengdu, China.                                                                                Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Gift Memberships

Gift memberships are available with TASA.  If you would like to purchase a gift membership, please email the following details through to the TASA Office:

1. First name of gift recipient;
2. email address of gift recipient;
3. the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
4. the cost of the membership; and
5. who the Membership Invoice should be made out to;

Upon receiving the above details, TASA will email the recipient with full details on how they can take up the gift membership.  You can view an example of that email in both Word (39kb) and Pdf (159kb) formats. You will receive an invoice, via email, after the recipient completes the online membership form.

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