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Employment Opportunity

Sessional Teaching Opportunity at UTAS Sydney (Rozelle Campus). Facilitate workshops with health profession students about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing in the second half of second semester. For more information please contact Dr Kim McLeod kim.mcleod@utas.edu.au 03 6324 5045

Doctoral completions: Nexus

Have you completed a PhD, professional doctorate or similar degree in recent months? If so, we would like to publish details in Nexus. Please contact the editors at nexus@tasa.org.au and we can send you a brief form to complete so that we get the details right. Congratulations!

Members' Publications

Books

Jeremy C. A. Smith (2017) Debating civilisations: Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age, Manchester University Press

Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach.

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Book Reviews

Please note, the review of Peter Beilharz’s book 'Thinking the Antipodes: Australian Essays', see below, was Professor Graeme Davison. This is being listed again as Professor Davison's name was incorrectly spelt last week.

Professor Graeme Davison Book Review: Thinking the Antipodes: Australian Essays, Journal of Sociology. Jul 13, 2017 | OnlineFirst

Journal Articles

Collyer, F.M.; Willis, K. and Lewis, S. (2017) 'Gatekeepers in the Healthcare Sector: Knowledge and Bourdieu’s Concept of Field' Social Science and Medicine 186: 96-103.

Connell, R.; Pearse, R.; Collyer, F.M.; Maia, J. and Morrell, R. (2017) ‘Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier Intellectual Workers Deal With the Global Economy of Knowledge’ The Sociological Review. DOI: 10.1177/0038026117705038 p. 1–17.

Hughes, K. (2017). Transition pedagogies and the neoliberal episteme: What do academics think? Student Success, 8(2), 21-30. doi: 10.5204/ssj.v8i2.378

Adele Pavlidis & Wendy O’Brien (2017). Sport and feminism in China: On the possibilities of conceiving roller derby as a feminist intervention. Journal of Sociology, early online

Perales, F. and Chesters, J. 2017. Returns to mature age education in Australia. International Journal of Educational Research, 85: 87-98. Please note: this article is available for free download for 50 days from 1/8/17.

Informed News & Analysis

Janet McCalman & Deborah Warr: Class divide defies social mixing and keeps public housing stigma alive, The Conversation

Catherine Strong: Why are there so few women screen composers? The Conversation (report from research conducted by Catherine and Fabian Cannizzo)

Michael Flood: Universities have a problem with sexual assault and harassment: here’s how to fix it, The Conversation

Erika Altmann: Downsizing cost trap awaits retirees – five reasons to be wary, The Conversation

Blogs

Ashleigh Watson: Making So Fi, a sociological fiction zine

Anoushka Benbow-Buitenhuis: Commoditised Promises of Ageless Perfection: Cosmetic Wellness and the Promise of the Ideal Face

James Arvanitakis: Young People and Citizenship in Western Sydney

Alan Scott: Sociology and Law

Thematic Groups

Social Theory

Emotions and Social Theory: Reflexivity, Critique and Structure Friday 24th November, University of Wollongong Main Campus Keynote Speakers: Jack Barbalet, Mary Holmes and Rob Stones The Social Theory thematic group of TASA and the Contemporary Emotions Research Network (UOW) are thrilled to announce a collaborative workshop on emotions and social theory at the University of Wollongong. Submission deadline: August 18. Read on...

Sociology of Religion Symposium

Chasms and Bridges: Religion and Secularity in a Polarised World 29th September: Western Sydney University City Campus Key Note Addresses: Professor Marion Maddox and Associate Professor Alphia Possamai-Inesedy

Bursaries: 8 travel bursaries are available for rural and out-of-state post-graduate students and unwaged/unaffiliated ECRs (up to 5 years post-PhD) of up to $150. If you would like to apply for a bursary, please provide a short statement indicating your place of residence, details of your student status/candidature (for post-graduate students), or details of your PhD award and current work status (for ECRs). You must be a TASA member to be eligible for a bursary. Please send your expressions of interest and bursary applications to rosemary.hancock@nd.edu.au by 18 August 2017. 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: Extended to TOMORROW August 4. Read on...

Other Events

Scholarships - TASA 2017 Conference

You may be eligible to apply for a TASA 2017 conference scholarship. It includes registration and travel funding. The deadline for all scholarships is September 30. Full details on each one is accessible via the links below:

ISA World Congress, Torronto, 2018

New: Religion & Non-Violent Social Movements XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC22 Sociology of Religion (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Migration, Language Integration and Inequalities XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. Joint session: RC25 Language and Society (host committee)
RC31 Sociology of Migration Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Sociology, Theory and Complementary and Alternative Medicine XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Forms of Collectivity Among Contemporary Youth
XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

War, the Military and Societal Transformation XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC16 Sociological Theory (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Continuity and Change in the Family Life Course (9895) Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC06 Family Research (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Experiences of and Responses to Disempowerment, Violence and Injustice within the Relational Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Two Spirited (LGBTQ2) People XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC06 Family Research (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Research Exhibitions

Across July-August, fellow member Peta Cook has fifteen research exhibitions from her Reclaiming the Self project that are being held in various locations in Clarence City Council (Tasmania). This is being used in conjunction with the review of their Positive Ageing Strategy, in which Peta is assisting. For full details of the exhibitions, please Read on...

Seminars

‘HASS Careers – Where do you want to go and how will you get there' August 17, Melbourne There will be sessions on employment, applying for funding, publishing, and peer-mentoring, with an interactive session on engaging with your audience. Seats are limited (the venue can seat 45-50pax). Read on...

Magic, Chinese Magic, and the Absent Magic of Reformation Protestantism in Max Weber’s Sociology Speaker: Jack Barbalet TODAY, Thursday 3rd August 4pm, Level 6, 215 Spring St, Melbourne (near corner Lonsdale). Read on..

Symposiums

Women and Sport: Bringing together industry and academic experts in women's sport for a day of discussion, networking and agenda setting. This is a free event but places are limited so please register. Already we have a diverse range of commercial and community sport representatives coming, along with researchers in various fields. Tuesday 28 November, 9 am - 5 pm. Griffith University, Gold Coast campus. Follow this link for further details or email a.pavlidis@griffith.edu.au.

Workshops

researcHERs @ UoM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Join researcHERs @ UoM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, a one-day event where the University of Melbourne community comes together to improve the representation of women on Wikipedia. Join in for the day, or attend a workshop or two to learn how to improve existing content, and how to create new articles. Registrations close on August 20. Read on...

Public Seminar

Estimating the societal cost of methamphetamine use in Australia: A free public seminar with Steve Allsop and Robert Tait, National Drug Research Institute. Wednesday, 23 August 2017 @ 12.30pm-1.30pm. Read on...

International Center for the Sociology of Religion,

New: For the latest Newsletter by the International Center for the Sociology of Religion, please click here.

Conferences

International Life Course Conference Sydney, Australia, 24-26 October, Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach.
The conference will bring together researchers, policy makers, and community stakeholders, to showcase the latest research and solutions for reducing social disadvantage. Read on...

Fourth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference ‘Making alcohol and other drug realities’ 23-25 August, Helsinki, Finland. Read on...

Respect Existence or Expect Resistance Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand 6-10 December, Dunedin, New Zealand Submission deadline: September 10. Read on...

Association of Industrial Relations Academics, Australia and New Zealand conference (AIRAANZ) 'Jobs and Change in Uncertain Times' : 32nd Annual AIRAANZ Conference
Adelaide, South Australia
7-9 February 2018 Submission deadline: 15 September 2017 Read on...

Journals - Call for submissions

Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, is pleased to announce they have a partnership with a new publisher, Berghahn Journals. In tandem with their new publisher, they are issuing a renewed call for submissions to their journal. Read on...

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.

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