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Journal of Sociology - Special Edition 2011
The Journal of Sociology is an A rated, international journal published four times a year by Sage. Each year the Editorial Board invites 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.
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 June 30, 2011 and publication will be in December 2011.
Please submit expressions of interest of no more than one A4 page in length to Prof. Andy Bennett by Friday 20 August, 2010. Expressions of interest should include the following information:
a) Contact details and brief biography for each Guest Editor
b) 200 word summary of the special edition theme, including rationale, aims and objects and significance of contribution to contemporary sociological thinking and research.
c) Where appropriate, an indicative list of authors and papers to be featured in the special edition.
Professor Andy Bennett
Editor in Chief, Journal of Sociology
Griffith Centre for Cultural Research
Macrossan Building
Griffith University
Nathan Campus
170 Kessels Road
Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia.
Email: a.bennett@griffith.edu.au
Journal of Sociology - Special Edition 2010
Guest Editors
Paul Ward, John Coveney and Julie Henderson
Discipline of Public Health, Flinders University, SA.
Deadline for abstracts - closed
Deadline for submission of full papers - closed
Rising food costs, drought, natural disasters, food scares, an increasing focus upon prevention of chronic disease through adoption of healthy lifestyles, and ethical considerations in relation to food production and transport, all make the study of food and eating an increasingly important sociological endeavour. This Special Issue of the Journal of Sociology will give sociologists the opportunity to engage in some of the most pressing social issues in late modernity, and therefore highlight the role of public sociology.
Key contemporary sociological issues in the Special Issue may related to governmentality (and critiques of neoliberalism), identity, consumerism, theories of trust and risk, gender, reflexive modernisation, and social systems theory.
Papers were being sought in the following areas:
1. Food choice and identity
2. Food ‘choice’ for Indigenous Australians
3. Trust in the food supply and dietary information
4. Consumerism and morality within high modernity
5. Healthism and food consumption
6. Governance of food and eating