Dear  ,

The Distinguished Service to Sociology award is open for nominations. This Award is made to a TASA member who has demonstrated outstanding, significant and sustained service to Australian sociology over many years. While not necessarily a lifetime achievement award, candidates for the Distinguished Service Award would usually be nearing the end of their careers. For the full details,  read on...

Also open for nominations is the Outstanding Service to TASA. 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. For the full details, read on...

Employment Opportunity

Professor/Associate Professor in Social Science

School of Public Health and Social Work,  Faculty of Health                                                   Queensland University of Technology, Calvin Grove                                                              This is an ongoing, full time position that is open to Domestic and International applicants. Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.  The Professor / Associate Professor of Social Science will have a strong research leadership role in the discipline of Social Work and Human Services and within the wider School of Public Health and Social Work, and will contribute to postgraduate and undergraduate supervision and teaching.                                                                                                                  Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Journal Articles

Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, M. Obaidul Hamid (2017). Subtractive Schooling and Identity: A Case Study of Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam. Journal of Language, Identity & Education

Lesley Pruitt: Youth, politics, and participation in a changing world. Journal of Sociology
Apr14, 2017. Online First

Jacqueline Laughland-Booÿ, Zlatko Skrbiš &  Bruce Tranter: Narratives of nationhood: Young Australians’ concepts of nation and their attitudes towards ‘boat people’. Journal of Sociology. Apr14, 2017. Online First

Jorge Knijnik and Ramón Spaaij (2017) 'No Harmony: Football Fandom and Everyday Multiculturalism in Western Sydney', Journal of Intercultural Studies 38(1): 36-53.

Sarah Oxford and Ramón Spaaij (in press) 'Critical pedagogy and power relations in sport for development and peace: lessons from Colombia', Third World Thematics.

Ryan Storr and Ramón Spaaij (2017) ‘"I guess it’s kind of elitist": The formation and mobilisation of cultural, social and physical capital in youth sport volunteering', Journal of Youth Studies 20(4): 487-502.

Ramón Spaaij and Ansgar Thiel (2017) 'Big Data: Critical Questions for Sport and Society', European Journal for Sport and Society 14(1): 1-4.

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

Gary D Bouma: How religion rises – and falls – in modern Australia, The Conversation

Blogs

Deborah Lupton: Design sociology: a research agenda

James Arvanitakis: Improving the Student Journey: 10 tips that make a difference

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...

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: June 1. 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: June 2. Read on...

Workshop for TASA members

Hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, Employment and Social Movements’ Thematic Groups

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: June 1. Read on...

Other Events

Public Lectures

New: Children's and young people's narratives of gender and sexuality in an era of global conservatism                                                                                     Kerry Robinson
Thursday 18th May at 6pm, Flinders in the City (Adelaide)                                                             For more details and to register, read on...

Suburbs for Settlers: Reconciling layers of occupation, affect and trauma in the colonized landscape                                                                                                                         Rob Shields, Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Sociology Professor, University of Alberta, Canada                                                                                                                                                                FREE EVENT, Thursday April 27, 6pm at the University of Technology Sydney, Hosted by the UTS School of International Studies and Global Studies Program Online RSVP requested, see here. 

Seminar

New: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data sovereignty in Australia: Principles and practice                                                                                             Raymond Lovett, Thursday, 27 April – 11.30am (11.30am: Networking; 12pm: Presentation; 1pm: Discussion), Western Australia.  Read on...

Deborah Lupton on Tour

Fellow member Deborah Lupton will be giving four talks in Europe in June this year. Here are the details and the links to the events. You can access the details here.

Symposiums

Religion and the Humanitarian Challenge                                                           The Religion and Global Society Symposium 2017, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia      August 9th & 10th                                                               Abstract Submission: May 31.  Read on...

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

TASA's Annual Conference                                                                                   Belonging in a Mobile World, 27 - 30 November, Perth                                                                Submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

New: Borders in Girlhood studies (part of the Equality Diversity and Inclusion conference)                                                                                                                                                                   London, 28-30 June                                                                                                                           Submission deadline: April 28. Read on...

Australian Social Policy Conference                                                                        25 - 27 September, UNSW Kensington Campus, Sydney                                                   Submission deadline: May 17. Read on...

Indigenous Conference Services (ICS) are jointly hosting with the Indigenous Wellbeing Centre (IWC) to stage The 2017 National Indigenous Drug & Alcohol Misuse Conference                                                                                                                        21 – 23 August, Brisbane. 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...

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 extended: TODAY APRIL 20. 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...

Summer School

7th Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology - Exile and Memory                        Vienna ,September 24 to 29, 2017.                                                                                              Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

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