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For details about TASA November and the available funding for face to face events, please visit our TASA November webpage. The deadline for funding applications is Monday July 12.
| Critical Indigenous Studies thematic group conveners Bronwyn Carlson and Tristan Kennedy, both at Macquarie University, will be speaking about their social media work for TASA Thursdays on July 22nd. More details to follow.
Liz Dean, University of Melbourne, Ann Lawless & John McGuire, co conveners of the Sociology and Activism Thematic Group, and James Godfrey, University of London, will be discussing Protest Songs for TASA Thursdays on August 26. More details to follow.
Tim Graham, Queensland University of Technology, will be speaking on Social media and misinformation for TASA Thursdays on October 28. More details to follow.
Lizzie Knight, Victoria University, will be speaking on 'Assumed parenting roles and the systemic gaps in education and justice systems' for TASA Thursdays on November 25th. More details to follow.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Georgia van Toorn (2021) The New Political Economy of Disability: Transnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism. Routledge.
|  | This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and across different countries through cross-national investigation of individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy mobility.
Combining rich theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives with extensive empirical research, the book provides a timely examination of the policy processes and mechanisms driving the spread of IF amongst countries at the forefront of disability policy reform. It is argued that IF’s mobility is not attributable to neoliberalism alone but to the complex intersections between neoliberal and emancipatory agendas and to the transnational networks that have blended the two agendas in new ways in different institutional contexts. The book shows how disability rights struggles have synchronised with neoliberal agendas, which explains IF’s propensity to move and mutate between different jurisdictions. Featuring first-hand accounts of the activists and advocates engaged in these struggles, the book illuminates the consequences and risks of the dangerous liaisons and political trade-offs that seemed necessary to get individualised funding on the policy agenda for disabled people. Read on... | | | Fullagar, S., Rich, E., Pavlidis, A., & van Ingen, C. (Eds.). (2021). Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges. Routledge.
|  | | Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport come to matter. These perspectives are explored through a diverse array of topics, including, the embodiment of netball through Feminist Physical Cultural Studies; pregnant embodiment and implications of the postgenomic turn; posthumanist perspectives on women’s negotiation of affective body work and an autoethnographic account of how masculinity materialises through football; the mediation of gendered subjectivity through the digital-physical cultures of cycling; as well as how decolonial and postcolonial approaches identify the gendered and racialised relations of power in sport for development and football campaigns aimed at women’s empowerment. The thread that connects these chapters is the ‘doing’ of feminism as a generative knowledge practice that can transform ways of imagining, knowing, and affecting more equitable futures. Read on... | | | Note, last week's newsletter incorrectly listed the forthcoming date for Crimes of States and Powerful Elites A Collection of Case Studies (Eds. Claudia Radiven & Simon Prideaux) as July 2022, it is actually July 2021.
| Fullagar, S. (2021). Re-turning to embodied matters and movement. In K. Murris Ed). Navigating the Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Terrain Across Disciplines (pp. 117-134). Routledge.
Fullagar, S. (2021) Urban Habits of Walking in Women’s Recovery from Depression. In T. Bennett, G. B. Dibley, G. Hawkins & G. Noble (Eds). Assembling and Governing Habits (pp. 184-199). Routledge. | Signe Ravn (2021) Exploring Future Narratives and the Materialities of Futures. Material Methods in Qualitative Interviews with Young Women, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2021.1929716
Michelle Catanzaro & Philippa Collin (2021) Kids communicating climate change: learning from the visual language of the SchoolStrike4Climate protests, Educational Review, DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2021.1925875
Bryant, J., Bolt, R., Botfield, J., Martin, K., Doyle, M., Murphy, D., Graham, S., Newman, C., Bell, S., Browne, A., Aggleton, P. (2021) Beyond deficit: ‘strengths-based approaches’ in Indigenous health research. Published online in Sociology of Health and Illness on 19 June 2021. http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13311
Georgie Harwood, Kristiann C. Heesch, Marguerite C. Sendall & Mark Brough (2021) The Basketball Boys: young men from refugee backgrounds and the symbolic value of swagger in an Australian state high school, International Journal of Inclusive Education, DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2021.1941317 [full access]
Olasunkanmi-Alimi T, Natalier K, Mulholland M. African migrant women in the aged care sector: Conceptualising experiences of racism, micro-aggressions and Otherness. Journal of Sociology. June 2021. doi:10.1177/14407833211023979
| | Fu, J., and Wyn, J., Churchill, B. 2021 Young Australians’ Confidence in Political Institutions and Their Civic Engagement. Youth Research Collective, University of Melbourne, Melbourne | For tips from fellow members on getting published in The Conversation (TC), click here. For some members' articles published in TC between 2013 & 2019, click here. To find out what can happen after publishing in TC, read on...
| | Workshop Program: call for expressions of interest | New: Call for Expressions of Interest - TASA's Workshop Program
Funding of $10,000 is available for two workshops ($5k each).
About the Workshop Program
- Presenting TASA outwardly – engaging with the community
- Potential for feeding into policy
- Connecting with the research community
- Bringing experts in from the community
Successful workshops will advance research within sociology and showcase TASA as the face of sociological/interdisciplinary research in the region; engaging with issues of national concern; advancement of knowledge; support innovative ideas, and, the potential of feeding into policy and practice development.
Applicants must:
a. include a minimum of 2 Early Career Researchers and a maximum of 20 disciplinary experts;
b. include details of planned publication outcome(s) for workshop;
c. agree to submit a post workshop report to TASA that can be referenced on TASAweb; and
d. present workshop findings at TASA’s conference in the year the workshop is held.
| TASA Awards open for nominations this year include:
- Early Career Researcher - Best Paper Prize: nominations close June 30
- Postgraduate Impact & Engagement Award: nominations close July 31
This year, judging panels will also be assessing for the:
- Best Paper in Health Sociology Review; and the
- Best Paper in the Journal of Sociology.
You can access details about each award, and the nomination process/form, via TASAweb's Awards page.
| Cultivating ethical online communication in an era of digital disinformation: Journalists and online community managers as agents of change
Media Thematic Group webinar
Friday, July 2. 1:00pm - 2:00pm AEST
Meeting ID: 837 6228 5753. Passcode: 659194
TASA’s Emotions & Affect and Health Thematic Groups are excited to announce a call for papers for a joint symposium on ‘Hope and Empathy in Uncertain Times’. Hosted by RMIT’s Social and Global Studies Centre, with generous support from TASA, the event will take place at RMIT’s Melbourne city campus on 28-29 October with keynotes by Professor Simone Fullagar (Griffith University) and Dr Signe Ravn (University of Melbourne). Abstracts due 11 July. For the CfP and more details check out: 'Hope and Empathy in Uncertain Times' Symposium
Sociology and Disability Justice Transforming our World
Thursday September 9, 10:00am - 11:30am AEST.
Speakers: Judy Singer, Ryan Thorneycroft, Raelene West, & Lizzie Knight
Chair: Karen Soldatic
For speaker bios and registration details, read on...
High School Competition
TASA's Sport & Leisure thematic group is organising an essay/video contest for secondary school students (year 10, 11, 12). With participation in sport increasing in Australia, especially among girls and young women, and with major sporting events on the horizon (Tokyo Olympics, Women’s World Cup 2023, Queensland bid for 2032 Olympics), it is time to engage students with sociology and how it can help explain various issues in sport and social life more broadly. Sports and leisure activities are a large part of many young people’s life and thus, the topic lends itself perfectly to introduce secondary school students to the sociology of sport. Students will be invited to write a 600-word essay or produce a 3 minute YouTube video covering the role of sport/leisure in society. Applicants should incorporate at least ONE key sociological issue: gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity into their answer.
| Journal of Sociology - open access articles
| New: in case you missed it, Journal of Sociology's Volume 56 Issue 1, March 2020, Special issue articles - Asylum Seekers in the Global Context of Xenophobia - are available on open access here.
| Health Sociology Review -news
| New: We are thrilled to be able to report that Health Sociology Review is now listed as a Q1 journal is Scimago and it has also been accepted into the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Publishing Options database. The latter means that the journal is now available for ASA members to find as an outlet to publish their research. | Health Sociology Review -open access articles
| There are currently 12 Health Sociology Review open access articles that you can access here.
| New: The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies
Harvard University’s Committee on Australian Studies is seeking to appoint to The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies for the academic year 2023-24.
Teaching
Expressions of interest are sought to teach into an undergraduate course on social and public policy in Semester 2, 2021 at The University of Notre Dame Australia (Sydney campus). Please send your expression along with a brief summary of your experience teaching this type of course, your CV and your availability. Please contact Louise if would like a copy of the course description and course learning outcomes.
Contact: louise.st.guillaume@nd.edu.au
Research Fellow (2 positions)
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
The two positions will be supporting the ARC-funded Life Patterns research program.
Content Expert
A content expert is needed to author the content for the area ‘training and mentoring’. Academic records or working experiences in the communication for development sector as well as experience working in or with members of the Pacific Islands are beneficial, however, not crucial for this position. More about the project can be found here.
For more information and background about the job please contact the project manager Nicola Wunderlich (Mobile: +61 409745846)
| There are many members of TASA who are looking for work, from sessional teaching through to applied consultancy research. Our 'Looking for Work' registry is to provide a way for our members who are looking for work to connect with people looking to employ sociologists. We also acknowledge many of our members are employed precariously, and we hope this registry might help in building connections and networks towards more stable employment.
Note, if you are looking for work you can list yourself in the 'Looking for Work' registry via your membership profile. Click on the Additional Member Data tab and scroll down to the question 'Are you looking for work?' After selecting 'yes' to that question, your details will appear in our publicly searchable 'Find a Sociologist' directory. Please contact TASA Admin if you need assistance adding your details.
If you would like to be spotlighted in our newsletter as someone looking for work, please email TASA Admin, and attach a profile image that can be used in the spotlight and include a bio outlining your location, highest qualification, areas of expertise, the type of work you are looking for, and whether you are in a position to relocate etc.
| The Jobs Board enables you to view current employment opportunities. As a member, you can post opportunities to the Jobs Board directly from within your membership profile screen.
| | | PhD Scholarship – Life Patterns project
University of Melbourne
Life Patterns is offering two PhD scholarships in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education to undertake qualitative and/or quantitative projects using data from the project, which has been following the lives of young Australians since the early 1990s. In the second half 2021, the project will recruit a new cohort of young Australians to examine their pathways following the pandemic. Please contact Associate Professor Hernán Cuervo (hicuervo@unimelb.edu.au) or Dr Jenny Chesters (jenny.chesters@unimelb.edu.au) for more information.
Antiracist Curriculum in Early Childhood Doctoral Scholarship
Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne
PhD Scholarship – Monitoring & Evaluating Climate Communication & Education
Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne
PhD scholarship exploring the experiences of borderline personality among young people
Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University
PhD fellowship in Critical Disability Studies
Carleton University, Canada
| | The Scholarships Board enables you to view available scholarships that our members have posted. Like the Jobs Board, as a member, you can post scholarship opportunities directly from within your membership profile screen. | | | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: World Vision's Know Your Country campaign
This is a First Nations led campaign which is calling for a First Nations cultural educator in every primary school across the country.
New: Greek Sociologists wanting the reinstatement of Social Sciences subjects in their High schools
This year the Minister of Education, in Greece, Mrs. Niki Kerameos decided that the course of Sociology will be taught for the last time after 39 years of presence in Greek High Schools. We have been asked by a member of the Greek Sociological Association to support their campaign to get the Greek Ministry of Education to reinstate the subject of Social Sciences in their High schools
You can access the petition here.
| New: ‘Barring Armageddon’ and the Tokyo Olympics: Sporting Bubbles, Social Power and Viral Contagion in Australia and Japan
Speakers: fellow members David Rowe and Adele Pavlidis
TODAY, THURSDAY JUNE June 24, 2.00pm - 3.00pm
| New: Call for participants: Pilot study on the use of apps and wearables for mental health among young adults aged 18-25 years old in Australia
Apps and wearables are increasingly popular tools to track and manage emotional and mental health. This pilot study uses photo elicitation and an interview (both remotely) to explore young adults’ experiences with those technologies. To be eligible to participate in the study, you must be aged 18-25 years old; live in Australia and use apps and/or wearables for your mental health. Participants will be thanked with a $50 gift card. More information here or contact Jacinthe Flore jacinthe.flore@rmit.edu.au. Please share widely!
| New: Miscarrying in the Car: Centring Gendered Experiences of Homelessness
Delivered by fellow member Juliet Watson
Thursday 15 July, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm ACST
Lecture Theatre 102, Napier Building, University of Adelaide
| Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory
| The Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence in The University of Sydney Law School invites entries for the Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory 2021. The Prize will be awarded to the author or authors of the entry that, since 30 June 2016, has best advanced the sociological approach to jurisprudence. The winner of the Prize will receive AU$50,000 and may also be invited to participate in the activities of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence for up to one semester and to deliver the Julius Stone Address.
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New: The Internet of Things in Australia: Social Impacts and Issues
Speaker: Deborah Lupton
This is the first session of the Hub’s new online series Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World
Thursday, 8 July, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM AEST
An Exploration of (cisgender) WSU staff's understanding of trans and gender diversity
With fellow member Lucy Nicholas
Wednesday July 21st 4:30pm, Liverpool or Zoom
| Conflict, Confinement and Immorality
Taiwan, 22nd - 25th March, 2022
Abstract submission deadline: September 10. Read on... | Sociology of Vulnerabilities and Resistance: New and Emerging Challenges on Lives, Communities, and Places.
The Philippine Sociological Society
Online, October 1 - 5, 2021
Speakers include our immediate past president, Dan Woodman
Post Porto Alegre ISA Forum RC 54: Sociology of the body in COVID time.
2nd - 4th September, 2021
Featuring fellow member Raewyn Connell as one of the keynotes
The Body in the Social Sciences
II International Seminary Body and Culture (CBCE) Bodies in the Pandemic Context
Abstract submission deadline: July 30th. Read on...
| Call for Session Proposals
Proposals are invited for sessions at RC20 Regional Conference on Comparative Sociology & The 2nd RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology.
Philippine Sociological Society's International Conference seeks to bring in a range of diverse voices that can problematize, theorize, and empirically analyze the various experiences of vulnerability, precarity and resistance. They invite presentations from sociologists and social scientists from around the world about their recent research and think pieces particularly on vulnerabilities and resistance. The conference is open to individual presentations and panel proposals.
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia - Bodies in Flux
1 - 3 December, Edith Cowan University, Perth
Submission deadline extended: July 30th. Read on... |  |  | Gift memberships, for any membership category, can now be accessed at anytime via your membership profile screen. If you would like to gift a membership, to someone new or to a current member, please follow the steps below:
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