The Australian Sociological Association: Members' Newsletter
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As per the email that was sent to you yesterday, nominations for the Distinguished Services to Australian Sociology Award & the Outstanding Service to TASA Award both close TODAY May 31.
The deadline for TASA 2019 submissions (abstracts and papers) & applications for conference scholarships is this Monday June 3rd.
Congratulations
A warm congratulations is extended to Ashleigh Haw who was Awarded her PhD recently: "I take it with a pinch of salt": Discursive responses to news representations of asylum seekers among Western Australian media audiences" - The University of Western Australia, School of Social Sciences (supervisors A/Prof Farida Fozdar and A/Prof Rob Cover).
Erratum: please note, the recent announcement about Anna Denejkina's PhD completion incorrectly stated that Anna graduated from Sydney University. Anna actually graduated from the University of Technology Sydney
TASA 2019 Awards
Nominations to the below Awards are closing soon:
- Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology (closes June 15)
- TASA Sociology in Action Award (closes June 15)
Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize (closes June 30)
Journal of Sociology
2021 Special Issue - call for guest editors
Interested in being a guest editor of a 20121 special issue of TASA's Journal of Sociology? Please submit expressions of interest of no more than 3000 words in length to Kate Huppatz and Steven Matthewman by Monday 24th June, 2019. Read on...
Health Sociology Review
2021 Special Issue - call for papers
Sex, Health & Technology Special Issue The Role of Bio-medical, Bio-mechanical, and Bio-digital Technologies in Sex, Sexual Health, and Intimacy. Full papers due: January 17th 2020. Read on...
TASA 2021
Host the 2021 TASA Conference: Call for Expressions of Interest
We are seeking expressions of interest for hosting the November 2021 TASA Conference. Expressions of Interest deadline: Friday July 12. Read on...
FoR Codes Review
The Executive has drafted a submission to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Codes Review, drawing on members' responses to the survey circulated earlier in the year. The draft submission can be viewed by members at this link <https://tasa.org.au/tasa-members/>: Members with feedback should email it to admin@tasa.org.au by 9am Tuesday June 4, 2019.
Employment Opportunities
New: Project Support Officer, Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Application deadline: June 7. Read on...
New: Programs and Partnerships Manager, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Application deadline: June 17. Read on...
New: Senior Research Officer, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Application deadline: June 17. Read on...
New: Assistant Research Scientist Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwanor. Application deadline: June 30: Read on...
Sessional Teaching in Health Sociology UTAS Sydney. Facilitate workshops with health profession students in second semester 2019. Please forward EOI and CV to: Dr Kim McLeod, 03 6324 5045.
Head of School, Social Sciences University of Tasmania, Hobart Application deadline: June 3. Read on...
Lecturer in Societies, Cultures & Human Services (Criminology) Newcastle University Reference ID: #3762 Application deadline: June 4. Read on...
DECRA Track Research Fellow Deakin University, Burwood Application deadline: June 16. Read on...
PhD Scholarship Opportunities
PhD Scholarship in Sociology - Social Media & Employment Monash University, Clayton It is important that you contact Brady Robards prior to submission of the EOI to discuss the project. Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...
There are 2 PhD scholarships on offer (1 based in Sydney and 1 in Perth) as part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project: The African Diaspora and Pentecostalism in Australia: New Perspectives on Materiality, Media and Religion:
- Religion and Society Research Centre, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Sydney
- School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth
Application deadline: June 30. Read on...
Multiculturalism, Migration and Youth
Two PhD scholarships, Deakin University Application deadline: TODAY May 31. Read on...
Looking to employ a sociologist?
Our Looking for Work registry is there to help sociologists looking for work but it is also there to assist those looking to employ a sociologist. The registry can be accessed on TASAweb here.
Members' Publications
Books
Kerryn Drysdale (2019) Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures:
The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene. Springer.
This book takes the globally recognised phenomenon of drag king performances as an opportunity for critical inquiry into the rise and fall of an urban scene for lesbian and queer women in Sydney, Australia (circa 1999-2012). Exploring how a series of weekly events provided the site for intimate encounters, Drysdale reveals the investments made by participants that worked to sustain the sense of a small world and anchor the expansive imaginary of lesbian cultural life. But what happens when scenes fade, as they invariably do? Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures is unique in capturing the perspective of a scene at the moment of its decline, revealing the process by which a contemporary movement becomes layered with historical significance. Bringing together the theoretical tradition of scene studies with recent work on the affective potentialities of the everyday and the mobile urban spaces they inhabit, this book has appeal to scholars working across gender, sexuality and culture.
Andrew Simon Gilbert (2019) The Crisis Paradigm: Description and Prescription in Social and Political Theory. Springer.
This book examines how 20th century theorists have used a discourse of “crisis” to frame their conceptualizations of modernity. Through an investigation of four key thinkers (Georg Lukács, Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck and Jürgen Habermas), Gilbert argues that scholars in the social sciences and humanities should be cautious of treating crises as explananda for research. Instead, the book calls for sociological analysis of the role of “crisis” within social scientific discourse, and examines how “crisis” has been used as a conceptual frame for legitimating theoretical agendas. Gilbert’s “sociology of concepts” approach presents crisis as a paradigm of modern thought, and, more generally, reflects on how concepts can become the carriers of diverse intellectual traditions and debates.
The Crisis Paradigm will be of interest to students and scholars of social and critical theory, politics, sociology and history, as well as those working in the fields of media studies, communication and discourse analysis.
Book Review
Ashleigh Haw (May 22, 2019) Book Review: ‘Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System’ – Dr. Vicky Canning. Refugee Research Online.
Journal Articles
Ravn, S., Barnwell, A., & Barbosa Neves, B. (2019). What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264619850736
MacLean, S., Maltzahn, K., Thomas, D., Atkinson, A., & Whiteside, M. (2019). Gambling in Two Regional Australian Aboriginal Communities: A Social Practice Analysis. Journal of Gambling Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-019-09858-9
Barnwell, A. (2019). Family Secrets and the Slow Violence of Social Stigma. Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519846443
Ramón Spaaij, Annelies Knoppers & Ruth Jeanes (2019). “We want more diversity but…”: Resisting diversity in recreational sports clubs. Science Direct.
Nilan, P. (2019) Indonesian Youth, Global Environmentalism and Transnational Mining. Youth and Globalization 1(1): 166-186
Bellocchi, A., Davis, J.P., Olson, R.E., & Appanna, S.D. (2019). Understanding social bonds during science inquiry using V-Note software. Cultural Studies of Science Education. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-019-09940-z
Egan, S. (2019). Excavating feminist knowledges and practices in the field of sexual assault service provision: An Australian case study.Women's Studies International Forum, 74, 169-178. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.04.001 Note, the link gives free access to the article for a limited time.
Meave Noonan & Peter Kelly (2019) Young people and the gendered and aesthetic dimensions of ‘enterprise’: stories from a ‘Rust Belt’ city, Journal of Youth Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2019.1620927
Informed News & Analysis
Peter "PJ" Holtum & Greg Marston (May 24, 2019) Uber drivers’ experience highlights the dead-end job prospects facing more Australian workers. The Conversation.
Elizabeth Humphrys (May 17, 2019) Hawke’s Complicated Legacy, on An Integral State: https://anintegralstate.net/2019/05/17/hawkes-complicated-legacy/
Elizabeth Humphrys (May 20, 2019) We Live in Anti-political Times, at Overland Journal: https://overland.org.au/2019/05/we-live-in-anti-political-times/
Blogs
Deborah Lupton (May 30, 2019) Interview with me about my new book Data Selves. This Sociological Life.
Ann Game (May 30, 2019) Farewells in Anghiari. Living in Relation.
James Arvanitakis (May 29, 2019) The diversification of university careers
Ann Game (May 26, 2019) Belonging in Anghiari: Merryl Drakard. Living in Relation.
Ann Game (May 22, 2019) Meeting. Living in Relation.
Deborah Lupton (May 17, 2019) Working with image cards in social research. This Sociological Life.
Podcasts
Dan Woodman (May 29, 2019) Why Generation X will save the world. ABC Radio, with Myf Warhurst.
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.
Members' Conference Presentations
Peter Robinson - Polish Sociology Congress, Wroclaw, 11-14 September 2019 Thematic group: "Sociology of work and the perspectives of its development in the societies of late capitalism". Paper title: 'Principal Work Narratives for gay men, 1940-2010'.
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 Group Events
NextGen Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Symposium
New: The Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre (MMIC) in collaboration with The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Migration, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism (MEM), one of the largest thematic groups within TASA, is hosting a one-day research symposium. NextGen MEM offers postgraduate students and early career researchers the opportunity to engage with contemporary migration and inclusion challenges as they set out to become the next generation of migration ethnicity and multiculturalism scholars, policy influencers, and practitioners. Thursday, 3 October, 8.30am-4.30pm Immigration Museum, Melbourne.
Two travel bursaries of $400 each will be available for interstate TASA members who are postgrads/sessional staff/unwaged and whom without this financial support, would otherwise be unable to attend. If you would like to be considered for the travel bursary, please contact Jora Broerse at jozefien.broerse@live.vu.edu.au.
For full event details, please read on...
The Future of Rural Sociology in Australia
Creativity and methodological innovation in the sociology of familial and intimate relationships
Families and Relationships Thematic Group Workshop Western Sydney University, Paramatta city campus, Sydney, 29th November, 2019. This one day meeting will bring together researchers at all stages of their career who are seeking to forge responsive and creative methods for investigating familial and intimate relationships. Keynote presenters
Submission deadline: August 2. Read on...
Being-With and Being-For Animals:The Status and Role of Method in Contemporary Sociological Animal Studies
This symposium, jointly hosted by TASA's Sociology and Animals TG & the School of Sociology at the Australian National University Monday July 8th, Australian National University, Canberra Submission deadline extended: June 3. Read on...
Social Sciences Week (SSW)
Social Sciences Week is an opportunity for social scientists to engage non-academic audiences with cutting edge social science research, to showcase the diversity and relevance of social science. It will include interactive community and school-based events, bringing the social sciences to life, particularly for the next generation of university students, social scientists and citizens. We encourage you to plan an event/s for Social Sciences Week this year; 9 - 15 September. Please note, the final date to register an event to be part of Social Sciences Week is Thursday, 1 August 2019.
Other Events, News & Opportunities
Book Launch
Sydney Health Ethics (USYD) is hosting a launch for Christopher Mayes’s book: Unsettling Food Politics: Agriculture, Dispossession and Sovereignty in Australia TODAY Friday 31st May 5.00pm-6.30pm , University of Sydney (Medical Foundation Building Auditorium). Jo Faulkner (co-editor of Continental Philosophy in Austral-asia series & Macquarie University), Angus Dawson (Sydney Health Ethics, USYD), and Alana Mann (Sydney Environment Institute, USYD) will help launch the book and speak on its implications for food security/sovereingty, public health ethics, and continental philosophy in settler-colonial Australia. For registration and more details read on...
Call for Participants
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) and the Regional Universities Network (RUN) is conducting a joint study on the factors and inequalities that influence students’ non-completions in Australian regional universities (CQUniversity, Southern Cross University, Federation University Australia, University of New England, University of Southern Queensland, and University of the Sunshine Coast). These factors might be positive or negative. E.g., a student finding a job/moving away or leaving due to financial difficulties.
CAPA’s Research Officer, & TASA member, Dr Lara McKenzie (research@capa.edu.au) is seeking participants for approximately 1 hour-long interviews or focus groups throughout May. Read on...
Public Lecture
The Good University: What Universities actually do and why it’s time for radical change A Public Lecture by Professor Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney) TODAY May 31, 6pm - 9pm, ACST, University of South Australia, City West campus, Adelaide Registration free but essential. Read on...
Call for Applications/Nominations as Scientific Director of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law
The International Institute for the Sociology of Law, IISL, Onati, is issuing a call through the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association for nominations for the position of Scientific Director of IISL. Nomination deadline: July 1, 2019. Read on...
Awards
The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Submission deadline: July 31. Read on...
2019 CHASS AUSTRALIA PRIZES The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sector, including academics, researchers, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students. There are four different prize categories available and self nominations are welcome. Submission deadline: June 21. Read on...
Workshops
Dark Social Spaces Keynote: Robert W. Gehl, Monday, 7 October 2-4pm Workshop: Tuesday, 8 October, 2-4pm Deakin Downtown, Melbourne Submission deadline: July 17. Read on...
Embodied methodologies for researching wellbeing Tuesday 13 August, 9am - 4pm Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Parklands Drive (venue TBC)
This one-day workshop is for PhD candidates, ECRs and others interested in exploring embodied and creative methods for wellbeing.
This is a fully catered event and is free to attend. Submission deadline: June 14.Read on...
Re/imagining Personal Data University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1 October 2019 Registration and lunch are free, but places are strictly limited. Please contact Deborah Lupton as soon as possible with an email noting that you’d like to register to secure your place. Read on...
Seminars
S@M-MMIC Seminar - Approaches to Death, Funeral Rites and Memorialisation in Contemporary Australia: Changes and Continuities Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett & Wilfred Wang (Monash University) 6 June, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Monash University, Clayton. Read on...
‘Mobs and Wogs’: Being Indigenous with Southern European Migrant Heritage Deakin University’s next ‘First Fridays’ Gender and Sexuality Studies 4pm on 7 June at Deakin Downtown (at 727 Collins St, near Southern Cross Station). Read on...
Trust, Young People and Digital Media 4th Annual Meeting of the Young Creative Connected (YCC) Research Network 30 September to 1 October, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland There is no fee to participate in this seminar, and lunches will be provided. There are a limited number of registrations though. If you are interested in attending, please contact Michael Dezuanni.
Call for Chapters
Social theory, digital education and the Global South: Critical perspectives The book aims to explore the interplay between digital media practices and education (in primary, secondary, further, higher, and adult and community education, as well as informal education) in the context of the Global South. Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...
Call for Papers - Journals
Nationalism’s Futures Sociology Special Issue Deadline for submission
of full papers: 10 June. Read on... For any queries regarding this special issue, please contact:
Bridget Byrne, Helen Holmes, Vanessa May, Shaminder Takhar.
Symposiums
Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium
28 – 30 October, Adelaide Submission deadline: June 23. Read on...
2019 Workplace Mental Health Symposium 2 – 3 September, Brisbane Submission deadline: TODAY May 31. Read on...
Being-With and Being-For Animals: The Status and Role of Method in Contemporary Sociological Animal Studies Monday July 8th, Australian National University This symposium, jointly hosted by TASA and the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, will focus on examining the ways in which animals are now coming to be sensed, experienced, known and re/presented in contemporary sociological research. Submission deadline: TODAY May 31st. Read on...
Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium
Monday 28th – Wednesday 30th October 2019 Hear insights from experts who are working to improve mental health services within rural and remote areas and discover what you can do to provide and advocate for equal mental health care for all Australians Submissions deadline: June 28. Read on...
Conferences
TASA 2019 - Diversity & Urban Growth Keynote Speakers: Maggie Walter, Deborah Stevenson and Rob Stones Western Sydney University, Sydney Submission deadline: THIS MONDAY JUNE 3rd. Read on...
New: Islam and Society: Challenges and Prospects. AAIMS Second Conference on the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies September 30th- October 1st, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus Submission deadline: June 14. Read on...
After Liberalism? Populism and the Future of Democracy 20-22 November, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne Submission deadline: July 5. Read on...
Advancing Equality at Work and Home: Strengthening Science and Collaboration The 2020 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference June 25-27, 2020, New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. Submissions open in July and close November 1, 2019. Read on...
Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 14- 18 July 2020 Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...
Contested Identities: Critical Conceptualisations of the Human The South African Society for Critical Theory (SASCT) Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 22- 23 November Submission deadline: September 7. Read on...
Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals Massey University, Wellington New Zealand, December 10-11 Submission deadline: August 30. Read on...
Youth Studies and the Challenges of Late Capitalism in a Globalised World Journal of Youth Studies Conference December 2nd-4th 2019, University of Newcastle, Australia Submission deadline: June 28. Read on...
Data Futures Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
30 September, 9 am – 5 pm, followed by drinks and the launch of the SAM Media Futures Lab. Read on...
SAVE THE DATE SAANZ Conference 2019 - Sociology for Everyone. University of Auckland, 3-6 December
TASA Documents and Policies
You can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures & TASA's History, via TASAweb here.
Accessing Online Materials
From March last year, the list of available Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals jumped from 36 to 91 peer-reviewed journals encompassing over 63,000 articles.
To access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, please click here for instructions, if needed.
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:
- First name of gift recipient;
- email address of gift recipient;
- the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
- the cost of the membership; and
- 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.
Newsletter Submissions
We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced) for the next newsletter, to the TASA Office. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning.
To ensure your publications listed in this newsletter, & subsequently on TASAweb, are referenced correctly by third party users, it would be greatly appreciated if you could email your publications to TASA's Office in a referenced format.
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The theme of the forthcoming Congress (July 2022) is Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies. We welcome, and encourage, you to spread the word using this flyer.
The International Sociological Association has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the global database 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 there is a link to sign in or sign up. You do not need to be an ISA member to be listed on the GMSSI
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