The Australian Sociological Association: Members' Newsletter
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Congratulations
A warm congratulations is extended to the following members:
- Christian Mauri who was Awarded his PhD recently; Mauri, Christian (2019) The Precariat, Ph.D. : On disposable academics and the university system, Murdoch University.
- Meredith Nash and Robyn Moore for having their article 'Exploring Methodological Challenges of Using Participant-Produced Digital Video Diaries in Antarctica' short-listed for the 2019 British Sociological Assocation/SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence.
- Michelle Peterie for having a a Top 20 Article in Asia Pacific Viewpoint 2017-2018: 'Grey networks: The contradictory dimensions of Australia's immigration detention system'. Free to download until 15 July
TASA 2019 Awards
Nominations to the below Awards are closing soon:
- Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology (THIS SATURDAY June 15)
- TASA Sociology in Action Award (THIS SATURDAY 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...
Employment Opportunities
Research Officer / Research Fellow The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) La Trobe University, Bundoora campus Application deadline: June 30. Read on...
Senior Research Officer Brotherhood of St Laurence, Fitzroy Application deadline: June 24. Read on...
Two postdoctoral research fellow positions are being advertised in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation to commence later in 2019 or early 2020.
- Indigenous people and epigenetic science
- Science and Indigeneity in Australia
Application deadline for both positions: July 31. Read on...
Research Fellow Deakin University, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Bioethics in the Antipodes: A history of Australian bioethics since the 1980s' Application deadline: June 30. Read on...
Programs and Partnerships Manager, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Application deadline: June 17. Read on...
Senior Research Officer, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Application deadline: June 17. Read on...
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.
DECRA Track Research Fellow Deakin University, Burwood Application deadline: June 16. Read on...
PhD Scholarship Opportunities
New: Contesting Australian Sport Culture: Women and the Rise of Contact Sport A PhD Scholarship is available to undertake a project aligned with the DECRA, working with fellow TASA member Adele Pavlidis at Griffith University. Expression of Interest deadline: August 31. Read on...
New: The Politics of Postgenomic Life in the Global South: India Deakin University, starting in October 2019 Expression of Interest deadline: July 1. Read on...
Intergenerational Equity and Well-being Within and Between Generations UNSW Expressions of Interest deadline: July 14. Read on...
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...
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
Anna Tsalapatanis, Miranda Bruce, David Bissell & Helen Keane (2019) Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social, 1st Edition. Routledge.
Social Beings, Future Belongings is a collection of sociological essays that address an increasingly relevant matter: what does belonging look like in the twenty-first century? The book critically explores the concept of belonging and how it can respond to contemporary problems in not only the traditional domains of citizenship and migration, but also in detention practices, queer and feminist politics, Australian literature and fashion, technology, housing and rituals.
Drawing on examples from Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States, each topic is examined as a different kind of problem for the future – as a toil, an intensity or a promise. Ultimately, the collection argues that creating new ways to belong in contemporary times means reimagining the traditional terms on which belonging can happen, as well as the social itself. Read on their own, each chapter presents a compelling case study and develops a set of critical tools for encountering the empirical, epistemological and ontological challenges we face today. Read together, they present a diverse imagination that is capable of answering the question of belonging in, to and with the future.
This book explores 21st century Korean society on the basis of its dramatically transforming and rapidly expanding commercial funeral industry. With insights into contemporary Confucianism, shamanism and filial piety, as well as modernisation, urbanisation, the division of labour and the digitalisation of consumption, it is the first study of its kind to offer a sophisticated, integrated sociological analysis of how the commodification of death intersects with capitalism, popular culture and everyday life in contemporary Korea. Through innovative analyses of funeral advertising and journalism, screen and literary representations of funerals, online media, consumer accounts of using funeral services and other sources, it offers a complex picture of the widespread effects of economic development, urbanisation and modernisation in South Korean society over the past quarter century.
Nafiseh Ghafournia (2019) Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence. Melbourne University Press.
Faith in Freedom examines the implications of feminist intersectional perspectives for service provision, social work education and policy.
How do Australian Muslim immigrant women understand domestic violence? How do they experience domestic violence? How do they respond to domestic violence? What role does their faith play? How do immigration-related factors intersect with culture, religion and gender to shape the women's experiences of domestic violence and responses to it? Faith in Freedom answers the above questions by analysing the Muslim immigrant women's own narratives of domestic violence. The study contributes to understandings of the intersections between factors such as gender, culture, religion and immigration, and the ways in which different social locations interact in Muslim immigrant women's experiences of abuse. Faith in Freedom examines the implications of feminist intersectional perspectives for service provision, social work education and policy.
Book Chapters
Elliott, Karla (2019), Book review: Steven Roberts, Young Working-Class Men in Transition, LSE Review of Books, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2019/06/04/book-review-young-working-class-men-in-transition-by-steven-roberts/.
Tsalapatanis. A. 'Naming Belonging: When National Vocabularies Fail', in A. Tsalapatanis, M. Bruce, D. Bissell & H. Keane (eds.) 2019, Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social, 1st Edition. Routledge.
Wade, M. & Walsh, M.J. '‘Their Time and Their Story’: Inscribing Belonging Through Life Narratives and Role Expectations in Wedding Videography', in A. Tsalapatanis, M. Bruce, D. Bissell & H. Keane (eds.) 2019, Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social, 1st Edition. Routledge.
Southerton. C. & Bruce. M. 'Beyond Human (Un)Belonging: Intimacies and the Impersonal in Black Mirror', in A. Tsalapatanis, M. Bruce, D. Bissell & H. Keane (eds.) 2019, Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social, 1st Edition. Routledge.
McCann, H. & Killen, G. 'Femininity isn't Femme: Appearance and the Contradictory Space of Queer Femme Belonging', in A. Tsalapatanis, M. Bruce, D. Bissell & H. Keane (eds.) 2019, Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social, 1st Edition. Routledge.
Journal Articles
Amy Claire Thomas, (2019) "History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory: People, Programs, Policies", History of Education Review, Vol. 48 Issue: 1, pp.124-125, https:// doi.org/10.1108/HER-06-2019-068
Amy Claire Thomas, (2019), 'Federal election 2019: What the hell just happened? Five arguments', Overland, online, https://overland.org.au/2019/05/federal-election-2019-what-the-hell-just-happened-five-arguments/
Mackey-Smith, Kerrie. "Teaching for Reconciliation in a Multiracial Classroom." Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, The 42.2 (2019): 103-15.
Bunn, M., Threadgold, S., & Burke, P. J. (2019). Class in Australian higher education: The university as a site of social reproduction. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783319851188
Barbara Barbosa Neves, Alexandra Sanders & Renata Kokanović (2019) “It's the worst bloody feeling in the world”: Experiences of loneliness and social isolation among older people living in care homes. Journal of Aging Studies.
Gilbert, A. S., Antoniades, J., & Brijnath, B. (2019) ‘The symbolic mediation of patient trust: Transnational health-seeking among Indian-Australians’, Social Science & Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112359
Rebecca Olive, Gary Osmond & Murray G. Phillips (2019) Sisterhood, pleasure and marching: Indigenous women and leisure, Annals of Leisure Research, DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2019.1624181
Gbenga Emmanuel Afolayan (2019) Hausa-Fulani women's movement and womanhood, Agenda, DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2019.1609786
Ashley Barnwell (2019) Given it is all so remote from us’: family secrets, ancestral shames and the proximities of emotion, Emotions and Society, https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bup/eas/2019/00000001/00000001/art00007;jsessionid=6bblgpt2n1lq9.x-ic-live-03#Refs
Informed News & Analysis
Christina Ho (June 12, 2019) Selective schools mainly ‘select’ advantage, so another one won’t ease Sydney’s growing pains. The Conversation.
Alan Morris & Andrea Verdasco (June 12, 2019) ‘I really have thought this can’t go on’: loneliness looms for rising numbers of older private renters. The Conversation.
Blogs
Deborah Lupton (June 5, 2019) Advice for successful academic research – now all in one place! This Sociological Life.
Abidin, Crystal. 2019. “From YouTube to TV, and Back Again: Viral Video Child Stars and Media Flows in the Era of Social Media.” Cyborgology, 4 June 2019.
Abidin, Crystal. 2019. “Influencers vs. Creators, Journalists vs. Academics, USA vs. The World.” wishcrys.com, 3 June 2019.
Podcasts
Nicholas Hookway (May 29, 2019) How does instagram foster a giving culture? ABC Hobart.
Members' Keynote Invitations
Crystal Abidin has been invited to give the following two keynotes:
- Abidin, Crystal. 2019. “Public shaming, Vigilante trolling, and Genealogies of Transgression on the Singaporean Internet.” AoIR Flashpoint Symposia, Urbino. June 24, 2019. https://sites.google.com/uniurb.it/dms-week/aoir-symposium
- Abidin, Crystal. 2019. “Where Is The Money on tumblr? Cultures of Celebrity and Labour within tumblr’s Architecture.” Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) PGN Conference 2019, Bangor University, Wales. July 1-2, 2019. https://www.meccsa.org.uk/news/cfp-meccsa-pgn-conference-2019/
Promotions
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Thematic Group Events
2019 TASA Health Day: Data, Technology and Sociology in the Age of Digital Health
New: Call for Papers Friday 29th November, University of Western Sydney (Paramatta Campus) Invited speakers: Speakers include Professor Alan Petersen, Professor of Sociology with the Health and Biofutures Focus Program at Monash University, and Professor Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW, Sydney.
As digital health technologies (e.g., My Health Record) have become increasingly rooted in the practices and organisation of health and care in Australian society, understanding the role of the digital has become of growing importance to health sociology. Much of the discussion in medical and health promotion rhetoric surrounding digital health has focused on its promise and benefits for citizens, healthcare systems and society (e.g., by increasing efficiencies, precision, and ‘user engagement’ in healthcare). Sociologists have drawn attention to issues around data misuse, privacy, and new forms of surveillance (e.g., selling patient information to insurance companies).
Travel Bursaries Award: TASA has provided funding to award two travel bursaries of $300 to postgraduate or casual/unwaged staff TASA members (who are living outside of Sydney) to attend the symposium. Recipients do not have to submit an abstract to receive an award. If you wish to apply for a travel bursary please email Anthony K J Smith anthony.smith@unsw.edu.au for more information.
Submission deadline: August 9. Read on...
NextGen Migration Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Symposium
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...
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
Call for Participants
New: Project: “Culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and refugee students’ participation in and transition out of university studies and into the ‘caring professions’: What are the views of educators?”
This project seeks to explore the perceptions, understandings and practices of university staff across Australia who work with domestic CALDM/R students (by which we mean any student with a CALD background who does not hold an international student visa but who arrived as a migrant or refugee) with regard to their engagement in their studies and their preparedness for ‘transitioning out’ of higher education and into employment or further study that is commensurate with the studies they have recently completed. For the full details, and to complete the survey, please read on...
Call for Judges: The Global Undergraduate Awards
Every year, The Global Undergraduate Awards invites reputable academics and industry leaders from a diverse range of academic and cultural backgrounds to the world’s largest virtual academic judging process. There are currently some vacancies available on their Social Sciences: Sociology & Social Policy panel. 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
New: ‘Trans*: Visual Representation and the Transgender Body' Deakin University’s next ‘First Fridays’ Gender and Sexuality Studies 4pm on 5 July at Deakin Downtown (at 727 Collins St, near Southern Cross Station). Read on...
Future Seminars
- 2 August, Joe Latham (Deakin) on “Trans Men and the Ontological Politics of Medicine”
- 6 September, Hannah McCann (Melbourne) on “Crisis, Treatment, and the Role of the Beauty Salon”
- 4 October, Yin Paradies (Deakin) on “Polyamory as sexual orientation: debates and implications”
- 1 November, Fran Martin (Melbourne) on (TBC)
- 6 December, Peter Aggleton (UNSW) on “The future of sex and sexuality education”
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...
Symposiums
What We Talk About When We Talk About Crisis: Social, Environmental, Institutional Australian National University, Canberra 5-6 December Submission deadline: July 31. Read on...
Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium
28 – 30 October, Adelaide Submission deadline: June 23. 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
New: Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration and Exile The first of its conference that aims to bring together academics, practitioners and LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum and refugees to discuss pertinent issues of queer forced displacement.
14-15 November 2019, Canberra, Australia Submission deadline: September 1. Read on...
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: TOMORROW 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
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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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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.
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