2012 TASA Conference

TASA 2012 CONFERENCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘EMERGING AND ENDURING INEQUALITIES’

Social inequality lies at the heart of sociological study and research. On the one hand, sociology deals with enduring structural inequalities arising from differences in race, class, gender and geographic location. On the other hand, sociologists have become increasingly aware of emerging inequalities in relation to other characteristics and institutions, such as ageing, sexuality, access to technology and mobility, food security and work-family intersections. These emerging inequalities affect individuals at different times across the life course and often intersect with enduring inequalities of race, class, gender and place. They are also unevenly distributed across space as neighbourhoods, regions and countries experience differential access to resources and opportunities and different social groups seek to exclude others through practices of segregation and displacement. For the 2012 TASA meeting, the organizational committee welcomes papers that focus on these emerging and enduring inequalities and the ways in which they intersect.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF TASA-UQ 2012

Proposed innovations for the TASA 2012 conference include:

• Selection of leading international keynote speakers, including one or more from outside academia and from the Asia-Pacific region;
• Commitment to the principles of equity and inclusion throughout the conference in keeping with our focus on inequality – for example, reducing the cost of the conference dinner to encourage attendance among students and utilising the services of social enterprises and charitable organisations in the provision of refreshments.

CONFERENCE LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE (LOC)

• Associate Professor Alex Broom ARC Future Fellow, School of Social Science (Co-chair)
• Dr Lynda Cheshire, ARC Future Fellow, School of Social Science (Co-chair)
• Professor Janeen Baxter, ARC Professorial Fellow, School of Social Science / ISSR
• Dr Mara Yerkes, Senior Research Fellow, ISSR
• Dr Peter Walters, Lecturer
• Mr Toby Miles-Johnson
• Ms Judy Rose