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Date: 6/23/2021
Subject: TASA Members' Newsletter June 24
From: TASA



Dear ~~first_name~~,  
 
We are looking forward to our TASA Thursdays session today, June 24th, where our retired members will gather to discuss all things sociological. Access details are: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88002446665?pwd=U2VsN0Z5SE1tcUlQc1NabFhiWDZjQT09
Meeting ID: 880 0244 6665 Passcode: 754340
 
Note, nominations for our Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize close very soon on June 30.
 
Abstract submissions for TASA Thematic Week will close on Monday July 12.
 
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.
 
Save the Dates
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 22ndMore 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 26More details to follow. 
 
Tim Graham, Queensland University of Technology, will be speaking on Social media and misinformation for TASA Thursdays on October 28More 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

Books

Georgia van Toorn (2021) The New Political Economy of Disability: Transnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism. Routledge. 


The New Political Economy of Disability
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
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. 

Book Chapters

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.

Journal Articles

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
 
Chesters, J. (2021) Gender attitudes and occupational aspirations in Germany: Are young men prepared for the jobs of the future? Work, Employment and Society https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211017046.
 
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
 
Cox J, Maltzahn K, Lee H, Whiteside M, Maclean S. Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household: Everyday gambling in a migrant community. Journal of Consumer Culture. June 2021. doi:10.1177/14695405211022082
 
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
 
Cortis, N., & Van Toorn, G. (2021). Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets: Frontline workers’ perspectives. Critical Social Policyhttps://doi.org/10.1177/02610183211020693

Reports

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

Informed News & Analysis

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...
 
Matthew Wade & Michael Walsh (2021) Anticipatory nostalgia: how wedding videographers craft memories before they’re even overThe Conversation, June 23. 
 
Katie Attwell, Lara McKenzie & Samantha Carlson (2021) COVID vaccination has turned into a ‘battle of the brands’. But not everyone’s buying it. The Conversation, June 21. 
 
Barbara Barbosa Neves (2021) How storytelling is helping us better understand ageing and loneliness. Monash Lens, June 18

Blogs

Adele Pavlidis & David Rowe (2021) The Sporting Bubble as Gilded Cage: Gendered Professional Sport in Pandemic Times and Beyond | A Summaryidrottsforum, June 21.

Videos

Rick Spencer (convener of the Sociology of Media TG) & Celeste Liddle (2021) Voices Media Bites June 17 2021 with Celeste Liddle. TASA, June 21. 
 
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.
Submission deadline: Monday October 18th to admin@tasa.org.au.
2021 TASA Awards
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
 
Thematic Groups
Cultivating ethical online communication in an era of digital disinformation: Journalists and online community managers as agents of change
Media Thematic Group webinar
Host: Rick Spencer. Speaker: Jay Thompson
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
A Critical Disability Studies thematic group 2021 Social Sciences Week event
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.

If you would like to help the group promote this competition in your (school) network, you can use this flyer.  Also, the conveners are looking for books on sociology on sport and/or leisure to compile for the prizes for the winning students. If anyone has copies left of their inspiring work and is willing to share for this competition, please contact us via email: suzanne.schrijnder@live.vu.edu, Catherine.Palmer@utas.edu.au, a.pavlidis@griffith.edu.au.
For more information, read on...
TASA Publications

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.
 
Employment
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.
Applications close 30 September 2021. Read on...
 
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.
Applications close: June 27. Read on... 
 
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. 
 

Jobs Board

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.
Current Employment Opportunities
PhD Scholarships
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.
Application deadline: August 15. Read on...
 
Antiracist Curriculum in Early Childhood Doctoral Scholarship
Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne
Application deadline: July 5. Read on... 
 
PhD Scholarship – Monitoring & Evaluating Climate Communication & Education
Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne
Application deadline: July 31. Read on...
 
PhD scholarship exploring the experiences of borderline personality among young people
Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University
For more information, read on... 
 
PhD fellowship in Critical Disability Studies
Carleton University, Canada
Application deadline: June 30. Read on...  

Scholarships Board

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.
Current Scholarship Opportunities
Other Events, News & Opportunities

Campaigns

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.
You can access the petition via Know Your Country website. 
For details, see the Flyer and Media Release
 
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.
 

Seminars

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
For full details, and to register, read on...

Call for Participants

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!

Public Lecture

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
For the full details, and to register, read on... 
 

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.
Nomination deadline: June 30. Read on...
 

Webinars

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
For full details, and to register, read on...
 
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
Email L.Nicholas@westernsydney.edu.au to register for on campus or zoom. 

World Convention

Conflict, Confinement and Immorality
Taiwan, 22nd - 25th March, 2022 
Abstract submission deadline: September 10. Read on... 

Conferences

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.
Submission deadline: July 30. Read on...
 
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.
For inquiries, email pssconference2021@gmail.com
Abstracts should not be longer than 250 words and should be submitted through this link bit.ly/PSS2021Abstracts
For panel submissions, submit via bit.ly/PSS2021Panel
Submission deadline: July 15. Read on...
 
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia - Bodies in Flux
1 - 3 December, Edith Cowan University, Perth
Submission deadline extended: July 30th. Read on...
TASA Gift Memberships
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:
 
STEP 1: Click here and log in

STEP 2: Click on the drop down menu to the right of your name in the purple bar (RH) at the top of the website (see 1st image below)
 
STEP 3: Click on Profile (see 1st image below)
 
STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. 
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Submitting Newsletter Items
We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced & with a link, where possible) for the next newsletter, to TASA Admin. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning.
Updating your Member Profile
Personal pronoun preferences can now be added to your profile. There are 9 combination options to choose from. Please let Sally in TASA Admin know if your preference/s is not on the list and we will have them added.
 
For assistance with updating your Member Profile on TASA web please see the video tutorial: Updating your Member Profile
 
TASA Documents and Policies
You can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2021 - 2022, and their respective portfoliosas well as documents and policies, including the ConstitutionValues StatementStatement on Academic Freedom, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures & TASA History
 
Accessing Online Materials & Resources
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