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Current Issue: September 2009, Volume 45, No. 3
* Donna Wyatt and Katie Hughes
When discourse defies belief: Anti-abortionists in contemporary Australia
Journal of Sociology 2009 45: 235-253.
* Nicole Asquith
Positive ageing, neoliberalism and Australian sociology.
Journal of Sociology 2009 45: 255-269.
* Sandra Buchler, Michele Haynes, and Janeen Baxter
Casual employment in Australia: The influence of employment contract on financial well-being.
Journal of Sociology 2009 45: 271-289.
* Yulia Maleta
Playing with fire: Gender at work and the Australian female cultural experience within rural fire fighting.
Journal of Sociology 2009 45: 291-306.
* Peter Nugus
Rhetorical strategies of political parties and organized movements: Deliberative democracy and the Australian monarchy—republican debate.
Journal of Sociology 2009 45: 307-328.
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JOS NEWS: A special issue of the Journal of Sociology to be Published in December 2010
Guest Editors
Paul Ward, John Coveney and Julie Henderson
Discipline of Public Health, Flinders University, SA.
Deadline for abstracts 2 Nov 2009
Abstracts will be peer-reviewed, and successful authors will be asked to submit a full paper.
Deadline for submission of full papers by 15th February 2010
Full papers will be peer-reviewed in accordance with the process used by the Journal of Sociology, and should be no longer than 7000 words.
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 relate, but are not restricted, to governmentality (and critiques of neoliberalism), identity, consumerism, theories of trust and risk, gender, reflexive modernisation, and social systems theory.
Papers are 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
Abstracts should be submitted via email to Trish Clark Trish.Clark@flinders.edu.au no later than 2nd Nov 2009. Authors are invited to contact Paul Ward Paul.Ward@flinders.edu.au to discuss their approach in advance of submitting abstracts.