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Our list of TASA members going to Toronto is growing. As mentioned last week, TASA will be having a stand at the event (#30) to promote our ISA 2022 Melbourne event. 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.

TASA members attending ISA 2018 Toronto

• Dan Woodman (ISA 2022 LOC)
• Alphia Possamai-Inesedy
• Katie Hughes (ISA 2022 LOC)
• Jo Lindsay (ISA 2022 LOC)
• Luke Gahan
• Sally Daly
• Ben Lohmeyer
• Judith Bessant
• Garth Stahl
• Anna Halafoff
• Johanna Wyn
• Adam Possamai
• Pam Nilan
• Steven Threadgold
• Rosemary Hancock
• Fran Collyer
• Karen Willis
• David McCallum
• Aqua Hastings
• Tom Barnes
• Suzanne Franzway 
• Michelle Brady
• Christine Jennett
• Michael Fine 

Congratulations

A warm congratulations to fellow member Danielle Couch who was recently awarded a PhD in sociology. 

Couch, D. 2017, Body weight and social control in Australian media: panoptic and synoptic perspectives, PhD thesis, Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, Monash University.

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...

Call for Papers

Special Edition of the Journal of Sociology 2019: “Inequalities in the ‘Gig Economy’ era: gender and generational challenges”.                         Abstracts due: April 8. Read on... 

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.

Latest Issue

Journal of Sociology- Volume: 54, Number: 1 (March 2018) is now available online. 

Special section

From economic rationalism to global neoliberalism? Marking 25 years since Economic Rationalism in Canberra: Tom Barnes, Elizabeth Humphrys, and Michael Pusey

Economic rationalism in Canberra 25 years on?: Michael Pusey

Who wouldn’t want more efficiency? Analysing the construction of efficiency as a ‘truth’ within policy discourses: Patrick O’Keeffe

Backdating German neoliberalism: Ordoliberalism, the German model and economic experiments in eastern Germany after 1989: Ben Gook

Simultaneously deepening corporatism and advancing neoliberalism: Australia under the Accord: Elizabeth Humphrys

Contradictions of financialised neoliberalism: The contemporary practice of responsible investment: Claire Parfitt

Tactical evaluations: Everyday neoliberalism in academia: Fabian Cannizzo

Race and the logic of radicalisation under neoliberalism: Cameron Smith

Articles

Tool, toy and tutor: Subjective experiences of digital self-tracking: Ben Lyall and Brady Robards

Representations of LGBT ageing and older people in Australia and the UK: Mark Hughes and Andrew King

Love in the time of ‘settling’: Forbidden knowledge and modern singles advice: Julian M. Groves and Annie Hau-nung Chan

Book Reviews

Book Review: Nick J. Fox and Pam Alldred, Sociology and the New Materialism: Theory, Research, Action: Clare Southerton

Book Review: Prue Hyman, Hopes Dashed? The Economics of Gender Inequality: Carisa R. Showden

Book Review: Iris Bohnet, What Works: Gender Equality by Design: Joanna Sikora

Book Review: Nicole Taylor, Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us about Gender, Body Image, and Obesity: Julie Howe

Erratum: Erratum

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. 

Members' Publications

Books

Book Chapters

L Nicholas (2018) Positive regard for difference without identity in Agius, Chris & Keep, Dean (eds) The Politics of Identity: Place, Space and Discourse, Oxford University Press

Journal - Articles

Clarke, Andrew. and Cheshire, Lynda., 2018. The post-political state? The role of administrative reform in managing tensions between urban growth and liveability in Brisbane, Australia. Urban Studies.

Drysdale K, (2018), 'Intimate Attunements: Everyday affect in Sydney’s drag king scene', Sexualities. 

Caroline Lenette, Jessica R. Botfield, Katherine Boydell, Bridget Haire, Christy E. Newman & Anthony B. Zwi (2018). Beyond Compliance Checking: A Situated Approach to Visual Research Ethics. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.

David Neil & Michelle Peterie (2018). Grey networks: The contradictory dimensions of Australia's immigration detention system. Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Ask, Kristine, and Crystal Abidin. 2018. “My life is a mess: Self-deprecating relatability and collective identities in the memification of student issues.” Information, Communication and Society 21(6): 834-850

Informed News and Analysis

Gavin Wood, Guy Johnson, Juliet Watson, Rosanna Scutella, 'Homeless numbers will keep rising until governments change course on housing', The Conversation

Scillio, Mark (2018) ‘Screens at School’, AEU News Magazine, Issue 1, 2018.

Sherene Idriss, 'What does a ‘Leb’ look like?'. The Conversation

Jude McCulloch, JaneMaree Maher, Kate Fitz-Gibbon & Sandra Walklate, 'We won’t stop lone-actor attacks until we understand violence against women. The Conversation

Podcasts

Nicholas Hookway, 'Is it okay to ask wedding guests to pay?' ABC Radio, Hobart

Blogs

Deborah Lupton, 'Frankenstein, Black Mirror, and personal data'.

Anne Game, 'Welcome back to Anghiari'.

Videos

James Arvanitakis, 'PhD Final Stages - Examination Reports and Results'

Zines

Ashleigh Watson, 'So Fi zine is currently accepting submissions for Edition #3.' Submit by April 15.

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. 

Lucy Nicholas has been invited to deliver a keynote on ‘Transcending Gender?’ at the Gender Interuniversity Research Seminar in Antwerp organised by University of Antwerp, the Ghent University and The Vrije Universiteit Brussel. This year’s focal question is “How to study the complexity of femininities, masculinities and gender fluidity?” 

Crystal Abidin recently gave a keynote in Helsinki: Abidin, Crystal. 2018. “Cultures of internet celebrity on YouTube.” Brand Experience through New Media. Aalto University & Vaasa University, Helsinki. March 15-16, 2018. 

Deborah Lupton has been invited to deliver a plenary address on 'The social aspects of engagements with digital health' at Australian Telehealth Conference, Sydney (April 12, 3:50pm). Deborah will be making a sociological contribution to this industry conference. 

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...

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Seminar

New: Buzz and Pipelines: Knowledge and Decision-making in a Global Business Services Precinct                                                                                      Speaker: Simon Ville, Senior Professor of Economic & Business History (University of Wollongong) & Honorary Professor, IRPS@ACU                                                                     Tues 27th March, 2pm-3pm, Level 6, 215 Spring St, Melbourne (near corner Lonsdale)

Symposium - interdisciplinary

New: 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...

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

Performing the University (working title): An anthology about the concept of the university as performance

Volume Editors: James Arvanitakis (Western Sydney University), Peter Copeman (University of Canberra) & Amanda Burrell (Western Sydney University)            Universities are cultural entities, fashioned, refashioned and contextualised in specific social and historical circumstances, in elaborate and protracted processes. As such, they are constituted by behaviours that are learned, rehearsed, presented and re-presented over time – as a series of performances. Abstract submission deadline: April 3. 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.

Queer Will: hikikomori as willful subjects                                                                            'First Fridays' Deakin GSS Seminar Series: Rosemary Overell on 'Queer Will'                  April 6, Melbourne. Read on...

Conferences

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...

Power & Governance: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences                                Tampere, Finland, 27–29 August 2018                                                                           Submission deadline: March 30. 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...

European Sociological Association Research Network 29 Social Theory Mid-term Conference Refigurations of Society, Sociological Perspectives on Modernity in Transition                                                                                                                      September 5-6, Berlin, Germany                                                                                  Submission deadline: April 7. 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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