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The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of The Australian Sociological Association will be held on Tuesday the 2oth November, 2018, at 5:30pm – 7:00pm in Lecture Theatre 1, Deakin University, Burwood, Melbourne. The Agenda and Annual Report will be disseminated ahead of the meeting.

Congratulations

A warm congratulations is extended to Peta Cook, current Thematic Group Portfolio Leader and income Treasurer, for being awarded the 2018 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Community Engagement. Peta has primarily received this award for her community-based and pro-bono work on addressing ageism; creating age-friendly cities; and increasing awareness of older Australians and their needs.

A warm congratulations is also extended to Ashleigh Watson, current Postgraduate Portfolio Leader and incoming Secretary, awarded a PhD on Monday: Engaging Public Sociology, Fiction and the Sociological Imagination. Griffith University, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. Ashleigh's supervisors were Professor Andy Bennett (Griffith), Professor Sarah Baker (Griffith), Professor Les Back (Goldsmiths).

TASA 2018: Spotlight on refugee rights advocacy in Australia

Alexia Maddox in conversation with panel chair Panel Chair, Dr Amy Nethery (24 October, 2018) TASA 2018: Spotlight on refugee rights advocacy in Australia

Spotlight

Sociologist looking for work

Lara McKenzie is an honorary research fellow at UWA. Her latest research, based in Australia, focuses on recent PhD graduates' experiences of looking for stable academic work, and addresses themes such as precarity, audit, and gender. She finished her PhD in 2013 and, since then, has worked both inside and outside of universities. Her PhD research explored love, gender, and age, and she has also worked on projects investigating internationalisation and online learning in universities.

Lara is looking for work in research support roles, from research assistance to grant writing and consultancy. Lara has expertise in a range of areas, including Economics & Economic Life, Education, Emotions and Affect, Family, Intimacy and Relationships, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Labor Movements, Methodology, Qualitative research, Teaching Sociology, Women in Society, and Work. You can contact Lara by emailing lara.mckenzie@uwa.edu.au and you can find more information at https://uwa.academia.edu/LaraMcKenzie.

Grant Opportunities

Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme 2018

New: ECR and PhD scholars can apply for up to $5000 in research funding as part of the Freilich Foundation's Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme Application deadline: November 26. Read on...

Fellowship Funding

New: 2019 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Application deadline: February 1, 2019. Read on...

Employment Opportunities

Research Assistant (online) in Governance of Emerging Technologies, IE Center for the Governance of Change, Madrid Application deadline: November 11. Read on...

Associate Professor in Sociology & Anthropology University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing. Application deadline: November 8. Read on...

Lecturer in Societies, Cultures & Human Services University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing. Application deadline: October 30. Read on...

Lecturer in Societies, Cultures & Human Services (Criminology) University of Newcastle. Full-Time, Ongoing. Application deadline: October 30. Read on...

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – Integrated Care University of New South Wales Application deadline: November 4. Read on...

Research Fellow La Trobe University Application deadline: November 11. Read on...

Research Fellow The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Environments & Society Applications close: 4 November. Read on...

Scholarship Opportunities

Healthier Tasmania: Assessing the effectiveness of anticipatory care University of Tasmania The Anticipatory Care Action Learning Project is a significant, new research collaboration that seeks to understand what forms of anticipatory care are available in Tasmania, the enablers and barriers that exist in accessing them and to contribute to the development of a best practice model suitable for scaled up implementation. Application deadline: October 31. Read on...

PhD scholarship in Social Housing: Pathways out of social housing RMIT University are seeking highly motivated and qualified applicants for a PhD scholarship to commence in February, 2019. The successful applicant will have, at minimum, an Honours level qualification in social science or related discipline and will have experience in quantitative research methods. Utilising their skills with administrative and survey data, the successful candidate will examine why people leave social housing and what happens to them subsequently. Fellow member, and winner of the 2017 ECR Best Paper Award, Juliet Watson, will be one of the supervisors. Application deadline: TOMORROW October 26. Read on...

The University of Newcastle have a scholarship opportunity on a project, 'Low Carbon Energy Transition'. The successful candidate will contribute to a cross-institutional research project investigating the political dynamics of the low carbon energy transition within the Australian energy industry. Application deadline: October 31. Read on...

The Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University have a scholarship opportunity on a project, 'India's Changing Cities and Informal Work'. The project is suitable for candidates with strong interests in informal work, migration and cities. Application deadline: November 11. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Craig Browne (2018) Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity: A Constructive Comparison. Anthem Press.

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‘Habermas and Giddens on Modernity: A Constructive Comparison’ investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the modernist visions of the constitution of society through the autonomous actions of subjects. It compares Habermas and Giddens’ conceptions of the constitution of society, interpretations of the social-structural impediments to subjects’ autonomy, and their attempts to delineate potentials for progressive social change within contemporary society. Habermas and Giddens are shown to have initiated new paradigms and perspectives that seek to address the foundational problems of social theory and consolidate the modernist vision of an autonomous society. The book traces the core intuitions of Habermas and Giddens’ theories back to their endeavours to incorporate, satisfy and rework the intentions of the Marxian perspective of the philosophy of praxis. It is argued that the philosophy of praxis conceptualizes the social as the outcome of the intersection of the subject and history.

Billett, Paulina, Sawyer, Anne-Maree (2019) Infertility and Intimacy in an Online Community. Palgrave Macmillan.

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This book explores an online support group for women who are infertile. Offering a close-up view of the women’s identities and emotions as they navigate the “roller-coaster” world of infertility, a range of questions are addressed: How do the women seek support? How do they offer support to one another? How are intimacies produced in the online space? Through narrative analysis of online journals and posts, the authors examine the impact of infertility on women’s perceptions of their bodies, their struggles with medical professionals, on their relationships with family and friends, and the challenges that a diagnosis of infertility presents to couples.

Christopher Mayes (32018) Unsettling Food Politics: Agriculture, Dispossession and Sovereignty in Australia. Rowman & Littlefield International.

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Over the past 25 years, activists, farmers and scholars have been arguing that the industrialized global food system erodes democracy, perpetuates injustices, undermines population health and is environmentally unsustainable. In an attempt to resist these effects, activists have proposed alternative food networks that draw on ideas and practices from pre-industrial agrarian smallholder farming, as well as contemporary peasant movements.

This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault’s method of genealogy as a practice of critique and historical problematization of the present to reveal the historical constitution of contemporary alternative food discourses.While alternative food activists appeal to food sovereignty and agrarian discourses to counter the influence of neoliberal agricultural policies, these discourses remain entangled with colonial logics. In particular, the influence of Enlightenment ideas of improvement, colonial practices of agriculture as a means to establish ownership, and anthropocentric relations to the land.

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Journal - Articles

Haarsager, J., 2018. The Role of Schools of Nursing in Continuing Professional Education Provision. Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal 26, 24–25.

Informed News & Analysis

Christopher Mayes (23 October, 2018) Is eating a settler-colonial act? Food justice and Indigenous sovereignty. ABC Religion.

Andrew Clarke & Cameron Parsell (22 October, 2018) Turning ‘big brother’ surveillance into a helping hand to the homeless. The Conversation.

Meredith Nash & Robyn Moore (2018) Are Leadership Styles in STEMM Gendered?. Association for Women in Science (page 8).

Michelle Peterie (22 October, 2018) The ‘soft’ violence of onshore immigration detention. Overland.

Blogs

Christopher Mayes (9 October, 2018) NEW BOOK: Unsettling Food Politics

Videos

Linda Cheshire (14 October, 2018) 'The inequities of un-neighbourliness: how disadvantage shapes the experiences and responses of problems between neighbours' - seminar presented by Lynda Cheshire at the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health on 16 August 2018.

'The inequities of un-neighbourliness: how disadvantage shapes the experiences and responses of problems between neighbours' - seminar presented by Lynda Cheshire at the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health on 16 August 2018.

Members' Keynote Invitations

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Promotions

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Other Events, News & Opportunities

Competition

New: Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Submission deadline: January 31, 2019. Read on...

Seminars

New: Global Compact on Migration 12 November 2018, Sydney This public seminar brings together key policy makers involved in migration policy and planning at the highest level to consider how the Australian government and civil society actors can support, implement, monitor and review the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) The discussion will be facilitated by fellow member Melissa Phillips This is a free event but registration is essential for catering purposes. Read on...

Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism: Critical, Contextual, and Collective Turns 5 November 2018, Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus, 10:30-12:00
Speaker: Associate Prof Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida). Read on...

Public Lecture

Activist Movements and Social Theory The Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture
168 Lonsdale st, Melbourne
Friday, 23rd November 4:30pm Speakers include fellow member Theresa Petray Bursuries available for TASA postgraduate members. For more details, and registration, Read on...

PhD Summer School and One Day Conference

Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities
January 2019 in Sydney, Australia
Hosted by the Community Economies Strategic Initiative, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Registrations will open December 5. Read on...

Call for Proposals - Journal

New Editor of Men and Masculinities Sage are currently accepting editor applications for a three-year term commencing July, 2019 (this start date is negotiable). The search committee will begin reviewing applications on December 1, 2018. Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

New: Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities Special issue on Cultural and Social Anthropology Submission deadline: December 31. Read on...

Contemporary Issues of Early Childhood Special Issue on the early childhood workforce - Inconvenient truths about Early Childhood Education and Care: Workers' lives matter Guest editors include fellow member Yarrow Andrew Abstract submission deadline: October 31. Read on...

2019 Special Issue Call for papers: Disability and Children's Rights. The Canadian Journal on Children’s Rights (CJCR) Submissions deadline: April 1, 2019. Read on...

Call for Chapters - Book

Theorising the university: critical perspectives on institutional research Edited by Mark Murphy, Ciaran Burke, Cristina Costa and Rille Raaper Submission deadline: December 1, 2018. Read on...

Call for Submissions - Edited Book

The Rise of the Far-Right:Technologies of Recruitment & Mobilization After decades of existing on the social and political margins, far-right groups and movements are enjoying increasing success and claiming a place in mainstream electoral politics. This call for submissions invites scholars to contribute a chapter to an edited book bringing together research that describes what factors lie behind this rise in the far-right, giving attention to how these groups recruit new members and mobilize action, and their use and involvement with media technologies. Submission deadline: November 15. Read on...

Symposiums

Sport, Culture and Gender: Where Are We Now? This event is hosted by the Religion & Society Research Cluster and the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University. Thursday 8 November 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Parramatta, NSW 2150 Keynote Speaker: Fellow TASA member and TASA 2018 Local Organising Committee member Kim Toffoletti, Deakin University:Who is visible in sport and recreation? Thinking through gender and cultural diversity Registration free but essential. Read on...

Rural Issues Symposium - The future of rural sociology in Australia, 2019 La Trobe, Bendigo, Friday 28th June, 2019. Keynote presentations from Professor Barbara Pini, Griffith University and Professor Robyn Eversole, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology. In recognition of the unique social experiences of rural, remote, and regional residents, the symposium aims to bring together students, researchers, applied sociologists, community and social services professionals and academics engaging with a range of issues pertinent to rural, remote and regional Australia. Abstracts and scholarship applications due: Friday 22nd March, 2019. Read on...

Conferences

New: Illuminating the SOCIAL in Social Problems The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) August 9-11, 2019, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, NY. Submission deadline: January 31, 2019. Read on...

Economy & the Possible: Alternative, Missed and Reified Futures in Contemporary Society 20-21 May 2019 in Warsaw (Poland) Submission deadline: 10 December. Read on...

New thinking on migration starts here Metropolis Conference, 29 October – 2 November, Sydney Explore migrant voices in a connected world - a place for advocating social change or platform for cyber racism? Keynotes include fellow member Andrew Jakubowicz. Read on...

The future in the past SAANZ – Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand Conference 2018. “The future in the past” is a phrase taken from Ernst Bloch, capturing his attention to the materiality of both past and future, and their interactions, in the present. Submission deadline: November 5. Read on...

EUROPE AND BEYOND: BOUNDARIES, BARRIERS AND BELONGING
14th ESA Conference, 20-23 August 2019 to be held in Manchester / UK. Read on...

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