Dear  ,

The submission deadline for TASA 2017, Perth, closes in 7 days, next Thursday June 15. Another important matter is that the deadlines for several of TASAs Awards and Scholarships are also fast approaching. Full details on each of them can be accessed via the links below:  

AWARDS

Deadline: June 15

• TASA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology

• TASA Sociology in Action Award

Deadline: June 30

• Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize

SCHOLARSHIPS

Deadline for Abstracts/Papers: June 15

Deadline for scholarship applications: September 30​

• Postgraduate Conference Scholarship
• Conference Scholarship for TASA Members with Disabilities  
• The Jerzy Zubrzycki Postgraduate Conference scholarship
• ​​Conference Scholarship for Sociology in Action                                                                                 

Nexus

Calling all postgraduates!

In the next couple of issues, Nexus is providing space to publish short accounts (up to 500 words) from postgraduate students in sociology and allied disciplines on their research methodology. We would be interested in hearing whether you had to change course methodologically and why, whether theory drove your initial investigations or empirical data. If theory was significant, tell us which theorist(s) and why and whether the theory has sustained you. Accounts of what approach worked for you and why would be especially welcome. Once our readers engage with your accounts, we will provide space in later issues in the ‘letters to the editors’ where these will be published. We will publish up to six pieces in the next issue of Nexus. Successful applicants will be asked to provide a photograph and contact details for themselves.

Eileen Clark, Alexia Maddox, and Peter Robinson, editors.

Journal of Sociology

Special Edition 2019 - Call for Editors

Papers featured in special editions are subject to the normal process of peer review. Selection of papers and coordination of the peer review process will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors. Papers may be selected either on the basis of invitation or via a general ‘call for papers’. Final copy for this special edition is due on the fourth of September, 2018 and publication will be in March 2019.                                                           Expression of Interest deadline: July 31, 2017. Read on...

Members' Publications

Books

Journal Articles

McKenzie, Lara & Dales, Laura 2017, ‘Choosing love? Tensions and transformations of modern marriage in Married at First Sight’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.

Pruitt, Lesley J. 2017. “Youth, Politics and Participation in a Changing World.” Journal of Sociology. 

Pruitt, Lesley J., Gemma Hamilton, Georgina Heydon, and Ceridwen Spark. “Abbott’s ‘Budget Crisis,’ CALD Women’s Loss? Service Providers Explore the Impact of Funding Cuts.”  Australian Journal of Political Science. 

Giordan, G. and A. Possamai (2017) Mastering the devil: A sociological analysis of the practice of a Catholic exorcist, Current Sociology 63 (4): 444-460.

Hook, G. (2017) Contesting family-based violence: sole parenting possibilities and alternatives, Journal of Family Studies

Teresa Swist & Philippa Collin (2017) Platforms, data and children’s rights: Introducing a ‘networked capability approach’. New Media and Society

Meryl Alper, Gerard Goggin (2017) Digital technology and rights in the lives of children with disabilities. New Media and Society

Deborah Lupton & Ben Williamson (2017) The datafied child: The dataveillance of children and implications for their rights. New Media and Society

Pienaar, K & Dilkes-Frayne, E. 2017. Telling different stories, making new realities: The ontological politics of 'addiction' biographies. International Journal of Drug Policy, early online.

Fraser, S,, Pienaar, K., Dilkes-Frayne, E., Moore, D., Kokanovic, R., Treloar, C & Dunlop, A. 2017, Addiction stigma and the biopolitics of liberal modernity: A qualitative analysis. International Journal of Drug Policy, early online.

Moore, D., Pienaar, K., Dilkes-Frayne, E & Fraser, S. 2017, 'http://www.ijdp.org/article/S0955-3959(17)30015-4/fulltextChallenging the addiction/health binary with assemblage thinking: An analysis of consumer accounts' International Journal of Drug Policy, early online.

Dilkes-Frayne, E., Fraser, S., Pienaar, K. & Kokanovic, R. (2017). Iterating 'addiction': Residential relocation and the spatio-temporal production of alcohol and other drug consumption patterns. International Journal of Drug Policy, early online.

Reports

Pienaar, K., Dilkes-Frayne, E., Fraser, S., Kokanovic, R., Moore, D., Treloar, C. and Dunlop, A. (2017). Experiences of alcohol and other drug addiction, dependence or habit in Australia: Findings and recommendations from a national qualitative study. National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University. ISBN: 978-0-9942806-4-0.  

Informed News & Analysis

Lucy Nicholas: Catholic schools’ ‘alternative’ to Safe Schools isn’t all that alternative, The Conversation

David Rowe: Anti-siphoning changes a blow to sports fans who want to watch on free-to-air TV, The Conversation

Blogs

Erin Carlisle: Featured Member Profile: Erin Carlisle

TASA Events

TASA 2017

Submissions focussing on the conference theme of ‘Belonging in a Mobile World’, as well as other areas of interest to TASA thematic groups, are invited. The mobilities turn in sociology has generated questions about different modes of belonging in a world characterised by global flows and precarities. The media report growing levels of permanent and temporary migration, undocumented migration, and movements of people seeking asylum. Governments respond, opening borders, curtailing movement. While becoming hypermobile, superdiverse, and cosmopolitan, immobility is a lived reality for many.                                                                                                                                                       Submissions deadline: EXTENDED June 15. Read on...

Please note: information on Childcare is available on the conference site here. 

Sociology and Animals Symposium

Development for Species: Animals in society, animals as society              Deakin University, Melbourne City campus, September 18-19,                                           Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Postgraduate scholarship: With the support of TASA, the Sociology & Animals Thematic Group will be offering 3 postgraduate scholarships valued at $150 each. Potential scholarship winners will need to be registered TASA postgraduate members & located outside of Melbourne. If you wish to be considered for a postgraduate scholarship please indicate this in the same email as your abstract submission.

2017 TASA Health Day

Mobilising health sociology for impact: How can complex understandings of injustice and inequality be used in policy and practice?                                            Friday 13th October 2017, UNSW Sydney                                                                                       Submission deadline: July 19. Read on...

Travel Bursaries Award: The Health thematic group has obtained funding through TASA to award 5 travel bursaries of $150 to postgraduates or casual and unwaged staff (who must be TASA members and living outside of Sydney) to attend the symposium. The recipients of the bursaries will be eligible for reimbursements to the value of $150 for travel expenses related to attending the symposium. You do not have to be presenting a paper to receive an award. However, those who have submitted an abstract will be given priority. If you wish to apply for a travel bursary please email for more information, Sophie Lewis (sophie.lewis@unsw.edu.au).

Youth Symposium

Research Methods in Youth Studies: Doing ‘Difference Differently’  Wednesday 22 November, 2017, University of Melbourne                                                        Invited speakers: Greg Noble, Anita Harris,  Pam Nilan,  Julia Coffey,  Brady Robards Submission deadline: July 31. 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 August 4. Read on...

Sociology of Economic Life and Work, Employment and Social Movements Workshop

Ten years since the global financial crisis: Social movements, labour & the crisis last time                                                                                                                                     Concurrently in Perth - Melbourne - Sydney                                                                                           Fri 1st December, 2017                                                                                                                         Keynote: Dick Bryan                                                                                                                         Submission deadline: EXTENDED to June 15. Read on...

International Sociological Association

isagram

The June issue of ISA's isagram is available here. 

XVth ISA International Laboratory for PhD Students in Sociology 

Struggles for Substantive Citizenship, Community Building in Troubled Times for Democracy
September 17-23, Poznan, Poland                                                                                       The local host and the International Sociological Association will cover travel and lodging expenses (including meals at the Laboratory) for the participants.
Application deadline: June 15.  Read on...

CHASS Prizes

2017 will mark the fourth year of the annual Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Prizes. The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sectors, including academics, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students.                                                                                                                                 Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Other Events

TASA 2017 Conference

TASA's Annual Conference                                                                                   Belonging in a Mobile World, 27 - 30 November, Perth                                                                Submission deadline: EXTENDED to June 15. Read on...

ISA World Congress, Torronto, 2018

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...  

Other Conferences

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...

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