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Dear ~~first_name~~,
We like to share good news! The abstract submission deadline for TASA 2023 has been extended to 9am (AEST) this coming Monday August 7th. We ask that you adhere to the 9am deadline so that Penny, our new Events Manager (who works on Mondays), can focus on the next stage of the submission process.
In addition to the extended submission deadline, we are also very happy to report that although TASA had bursaries for the ISA World Congress of Sociology and although TASA 2023 is a Colloquium, the usual suite of conference bursaries are available:-) The deadline for all five bursaries, listed below, is August 28th.
In other news, we are pleased to have fellow member Joshua Thorburn back as a TASA Thursdays presenter. Joshua will be presenting on The (de-)radical(-ising) potential of r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill, August 17th 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST. The registration link will be available in next week's newsletter.
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We recently congratulated some fellow members about being elected to various International Sociological Association's (ISA) Research Committees or Thematic Groups. We also mentioned that Dan Woodman had been elected to the ISA's Executive Committee. This week, we are extending our warm congratulations to fellow member Shaikh Mohammad Kais (see image on the left) who was also elected to the ISA Executive Committee.
| | | TASA's Postgraduate Impact and Engagement Award is now open for applications.
This annual award recognises the impact and engagement of a Postgraduate TASA member’s scholarship that is of high social value to Australian society and/or sociology. We invite TASA Postgraduate members to submit an application (or nominate others) for outstanding impact or engagement with sociological scholarship. Nominations are also welcome from supervisors or peers.
| | TASA 2023 Call for Abstracts |  | Held from Monday 27 November - Wednesday 29 November, TASA 2023’s theme, ‘Sustaining the Social: Voices, Culture, Natures,’ takes up the sense of social unravelling and remaking in the context of the increasing ethical imperative to live generously with and alongside other voices, diverse cultural frames, and the many environments that sustain us.
The Colloquium will involve panel-based sessions, general paper sessions relevant to a TASA thematic group, plenaries, and social events.
We invite sociologists from all sectors – urban, regional and remote – to share their research insights and to connect their work to ways of sustaining the social.
Guidelines for Submission
Participants who wish to deliver a paper can either submit an abstract to the general paper sessions relevant to a TASA thematic group or to one of ten focused panel-based sessions listed below (note, if you submit to a panel session, you will also be required to select a relevant thematic group in case your abstract is not selected for a panel session):
1. Young people, financialization and new technologies
2. The politics of the climate crisis
3. The social life of pandemics within and beyond health systems
4. Sustaining care across species and scales
5. Supporting diverse families in times of crisis
6. Dynamics of the asset economy
7. Dangerous diasporas? Finding space for diaspora engagement in multicultural Australia
8. Live music, heritage, and sociality: Post-pandemic urban cultural citizenship
9. Towards a more convivial academia
10. The future of work and care: practices, tensions and ways forward
The abstract (200 word limit) submission deadline has been extended to Monday 7th August. It is expected that abstracts connect to the broad colloquium theme.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Jeanes, R., O’ Connor J., Penney, D., Spaaij, R., Magee, J., O’Hara., E and Lymbery, L. (2023) Informal sport as a health and social resource. Monash University.
Ramón Spaaij, Jonathan Magee, Ruth Jeanes, Dawn Penney & Justen O’Connor (2023) Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2206002 [OPEN ACCESS]
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Petersen, A., & Pienaar, K. (2023). Competing realities, uncertain diagnoses of infectious disease: Mass self-testing for COVID-19 and liminal bio-citizenship. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13694 [OPEN ACCESS]
Kiran Pienaar is co-editor of a recently published edited volume and special issue in the Monograph series of The Sociological Review; Narcofeminisms: Revisioning Drug Use. Below is a list of articles, in the special issue, that include TASA member authors.
Dennis, F., Pienaar, K., & Rosengarten, M. (2023). Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding. The Sociological Review, 71(4), 723–740. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231174962 [OPEN ACCESS]
Dennis, F., & Pienaar, K. (2023). Refusing recovery, living a ‘wayward life’: A feminist analysis of women’s drug use. The Sociological Review, 71(4), 781–800. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231175729 [OPEN ACCESS]
Dennis, F., Pienaar, K., & Rosengarten, M. (2023). Afterword: Tensions and possibilities for a narcofeminist sociology. The Sociological Review, 71(4), 945–954. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231174978 [OPEN ACCESS]
Bessonova, A., Byelyayeva, O., Kurcevič, E., Plotko, M., Dennis, F., Pienaar, K., & Rosengarten, M. (2023). Living and responding at the margins: A conversation with narcofeminist activists. The Sociological Review, 71(4), 742–759. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231178634 [OPEN ACCESS]
Kais, Shaikh Mohammad and Md Saidul Islam. 2023. “Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, 1-20, doi: 10.3390/ijerph20126086. [OPEN ACCESS]
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LGBTIQ health, minority stress, and smoking as a queer practice
‘If there was a church for smoking, I’d be there every Sunday’: LGBTIQ health, minority stress, and smoking as a queer practice.
The emergence of LGBTIQ Health as a subcategory of public health is formative of contemporary queer citizenship. Increasing interest in the management and care of queer populations through public health over the last fifteen years has driven a range of health promotion activities aimed at changing the drug use behaviours of queer people.
In-person and online, Friday August 18, 4:00 pm - 5:00pm AEST, La Trobe University City Campus
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More-than-Human Wellbeing Exhibition
Ash Watson, Megan Rose, Deborah Lupton, & Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor
The exhibition uses multimodal arts-based and multisensory methods – both digital and non-digital – to highlight ways of knowing and being within and beyond the world of self-tracking apps, electronic medical records, and smart devices for documenting illnesses and promoting health and wellbeing.
Open until Friday 18 August, UNSW Main Library Level 5
| Social Sciences Week (SSW) 2023
4th to the 10th of September.
In case you are not aware, SSW is an annual event that celebrates and showcases the diverse range of social sciences disciplines and research in Australia. ABC Radio National have expressed interest in the week and are keen to explore the program at the end of July to see where they can promote or cover any events.
For details, and to register events, visit the SSW website here.
| New: The Great Debate: Does Sport Unit Or Divide Us?
6pm - 9pm, September 5th, National Library of Australia
With speaker fellow member David Rowe
| As mentioned in previous newsletters, we are collecting resources on the Voice. If you have something to add to the below list, please email the details (with links) to TASA Admin.
| Note, the call for a new editorial team (2025-2028) will be disseminated soon.
| Call for proposals for Special Issue by Guest Editors - Issue 1, 2025
Each year HSR publishes a special issue on a matter of central importance to health sociology and related fields, edited by guest editors. Previous special issues have addressed topics around Indigenous knowledges, violence against women, temporality, posthuman perspectives, trans health, sex tech, COVID-19 and self-tracking.
The Editors of HSR encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues exploring new ideas and the cutting edge of their field of expertise. We particularly welcome proposals for special issues with a focus on novel empirical domains, theoretical frameworks and/or methodologies in the sociology of health and illness (for example, the intersection of health sociology and climate change).
Proposal submission deadline: September 22nd. Read on... | Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Policy Futures Job in St Lucia, Brisbane QLD
This full-time, 2 year postdoctoral fellow position will undertake primary research on the socio-political, cultural and environmental implications of the expansion of high-value horticulture for the contested regional politics of (a) land and development, (b) labour and livelihoods, and (c) natural resources and environmental governance. The project will analyse how incorporation within agricultural global production networks interacts with diverse drivers of multifunctional landscape change in the north-eastern coastal strip region of Australia (from Coffs Harbour to Cairns), and critically consider how pre-existing regional economic, social and environmental factors influence the form of, and tensions around, the development of high-value horticulture. This will contribute to improving pathways to a more sustainable and equitable future for rural regions within Australia, and elsewhere in the world. The role will work closely with researchers located at The University of Queensland, The University of Sydney and James Cook University, as part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant.
| 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 in Korean Studies
Monash University
A new PhD position is being sought in the Monash University Korean Studies programme. The successful candidate will join the Korean Studies Programme and the Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub which was established in 2018 to produce groundbreaking research in Korean Studies.
Application deadline: Monday 7 August 2023, 11:59pm AEST. Read on....
The La Trobe Climate Change Adaptation Lab is offering two PhD scholarships to investigate what climate change impacts are on different types of work, and what adaptation is needed in response. Proposals are sought from people from human geography or other social science disciplinary backgrounds that address adaptation and work. For example, climate impacts on specific occupations or sectors, how types of impacts affect workers, or how workers in particular locations or regions are impacted.
| | 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. | | | | In case you are not aware, you can add job and scholarship opportunities to our publicly searchable Jobs & Scholarships Board via your TASA membership profile, see image below: | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Call for participants – Survey on Administrative Burden in Australian Universities
Fellow members Maree Martinussen and Jenny Chesters ( & colleague) are seeking the views of university workers (any role or contract type) about the administrative demands they face at work, and how these demands impact their working lives. Please find more information on the project website.
| | New: Building Trust in Humanitarian Action: Migrant and Refugee Perspectives
Monday 21st August, 12pm - 2pm
Western Sydney University, Parramatta City campus
To register, please click here. | | | Special Issue - Call for Papers
| Inheriting the Family: Emotions, Identities and Things
Emotions and Society
Guest Editors: Katie Barclay, Ashley Barnwell, Joanne Begiato, Tanya Evans and Laura King
Background to the call: It is only recently that scholars have begun to ask why people hold onto particular objects or intangible inheritances, like stories, while discarding others, or to consider what shapes their decisions to relegate something to an attic or retrieve it again. Such questions are critical, however, since our cultural heritage, social position, and national memory are frequently products of family inheritance.
| Big Questions in Work-Family
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
June 20-22, 2024, Concordia University in Montreal Canada.
More than 500 stakeholders in the work-family field are anticipated to attend, with a dynamic program focused on meaningful exchanges.
Submissions open in August and close November 1, 2023. Read on...
| Casualisation, Precarity and Career in Higher Education
Postgraduate Event - European Sociological Association
Online, September 27th
Keynote: Raewyn Connell
| 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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STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. | | 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 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.
| | TASA Documents and Policies | In case you are not aware, you can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2023 - 2024, and their respective portfolios, as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Values Statement, Statement on Academic Freedom, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures, Safe & Inclusive Events, Sustainable Events and TASA History.
| | Accessing Online Materials & Resources | | TASA members have access to over 90 peer-reviewed Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals encompassing over 63,000 articles. The image on the left shows you where to access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, when logged in to TASAweb. If needed, here is a short instructive video on how to access the journals. | | | | ARE YOU FOLLOWING TASA?
TASA has launched a brand-new Organisation Page on LinkedIn, just in time for the Congress, and we would love to have your support!
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