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Important breaking news, the deadline for general abstract submissions has been extended to Monday June 17th. There will be no extension beyond that date. If you would like to be a part of TASA2024, and you haven't submitted your abstract yet, please do so by June 17th. For conference details, visit TASAweb here.
| Our next TASA Book Club session, hosted by fellow member Aisling Bailey (Equity & Inclusion portfolio leader), shall be taking place online on Thursday 27th June at 7pm (AEST)
We invite you to join us as we explore the book: Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr
Event Details
Date: Thursday 27th June 2024
Time: 7pm AEST
Format: Zoom meeting - please note login details will be provided to you upon registration to this event
Cost: Free
Click here to register | | Join us on Thursday 20th June 2024, for next month's TASA Thursday session presented by guest speaker, fellow member Cathy Martin.
This session is titled,"Metaphors of Migration: A critical discourse analysis of the intersections between immigration, race, and the nation in Australian press reports."
| | | Join us on Thursday 18th July, for our TASA Thursday session: Social Class and Emotions in Australia.
This TASA Thursday session brings together three creative academics to speak about their applied research at the intersections of social class and emotion in diverse interest areas: gender, health, and youth.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 18th July 2024
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
Click here to read more
| | | | Call for Focus Group Participants
| As announced during TASA’s annual conferences in 2022 and 2023, The Australian Sociological Association is currently undertaking a research study to assess the state of sociology in Australia. This includes investigations into teaching, funding, university enrolments, employment outcomes, and research outputs with respect to Australian sociology.
We are currently seeking recent PhD graduates in sociology who would like the opportunity to discuss their experiences navigating the discipline in Australia as part of a focus group for this project.
Volunteers need to have graduated with their PhD from an Australian university within the last five years.
If you are interested in participating in a focus group, please email Dr Rhys Gower at r.gower@westernsydney.edu.au to discuss further details.
| For TASA2024, Penny Toth, TASA's Event Manager, has secured a 15% discount off accommodation at two Nesuto Hotels; Nesuto Curtin and Nesuto Mounts Bay. Nesuto Curtin Hotel is conveniently located on Curtin University campus. For booking details, please visit our TASA2024 Accommodation webpage.
| Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin, & Patrick O’Keeffe (Eds.) Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth. Edward Elgar Publishing.
| | The book includes 27 scholarly chapters by 40 authors, and 7 Commentaries by young people, from around the world, as well as a Foreword by Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell.
In this groundbreaking Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth, researchers from around the world examine the social, political, cultural and ecological processes that shape young people’s lives and how young people in turn shape the world. Contributors from the Global North and South challenge traditional frameworks as they document the diversity of ways young people now live. The Research Handbook highlights the active and creative responses of young people as they help shape the world and how they work to overcome inequality, adversity and crisis and aspire to flourishing societies and a healthy planetary future. Read on... | | | Mapping Transnational Habitus: Epistemology, Theory and Boundaries by Garth Stahl, Guanglun Michael Mu, Hannah Soong, Kun Dai. Palgrave Macmillian.
|  | This book surveys and critiques existing empirical and theoretical literature on the Bourdieu-informed concept of transnational habitus. The term "transnational” has been used widely in studies of migration research where it has allowed scholars to have a deeper understanding of the practices not only of migrants moving across national borders but also of agents taking positions in transnational spaces without necessarily criss-crossing different nation states. Focusing on the potential of transnational habitus as an analytical tool, the authors propose a model of transnational habitus to identify integral key factors for the operationalisation in research. Drawing on reflexivity, the authors analyse transnational selves and map transnational spaces of classification. Identifying strengths, inconsistencies and key problems in this rapidly developing body of literature, this interdisciplinary and international book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, migration studies, cultural studies, human geography, as well as diaspora studies. Read on...
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Note, all of the special issue articles are currently available on OPEN ACCESS, including the ones by fellow members listed below:
Phillips, M. (2024). ‘It’s Time to Make Your Way Home’: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Multicultural Policies in Australia. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 45(3), 564–577. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2331163
Haw, A., & Hauw, S. (2024). The Health and Social Implications of Racism During Covid-19: Insights from Melbourne’s Multicultural Communities. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 45(3), 494–512. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2023.2293193
Young, C., Cover, R., Parker, L., & Ostapets, K. (2024). Conveying COVID-19 Health Information with CALD Social Media Influencers: The Cultural Role of Brand Consistency and Relatability for Identity Authenticity. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 45(3), 548–563. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2325974
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Threadgold, S. Shannon, B. Haro, A. Cook, J. Davies, K. Coffey, J. Farrugia, D. Matthews, B. Healy, J. and Burrows, R. 2024. Buy Now, Pay Later technologies and the gamification of debt in the financial lives of young people. Journal of Cultural Economy. Online Early. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2024.2346210?src=exp-la [OPEN ACCESS]
Schmidt, M., Aberdeen, L., Carlon, C. and Eversole, R., 2024. Invisible innovation: Intellectual labour on regional university campuses in Australia. Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241252711 [OPEN ACCESS]
Stahl, G., Fugurally, S., Hu, Y., Nguyen, T., & McDonald, S. (2024). “I come from a poor family”: deciphering how working-class young men aspire to and experience their journeys in STEM higher education. The Australian Educational Researcher, 1-22.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13384-024-00724-1 [OPEN ACCESS]
Andrejevic, M., O’Neill, C., Smith, G., Selwyn, N., & Gu, X. (2024). Granular biopolitics: Facial recognition, pandemics and the securitization of circulation. New Media & Society, 26(3), 1204-1226. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448231201638?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.1 [OPEN ACCESS]
| | The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) Families and Relationships Thematic Convenors, Giselle Newton; Cheng Yen Loo and Cal Volks in association with the Centre for Digital Futures at the University of Queensland are hosting a Symposium exploring British Sociologist Jennifer Mason's theory of Affinities in research work.
Hybrid event
The day will include keynote provocations by fellow TASA members Rebecca Olson and Ashley Barnwell, as well as rapid papers from participants and affinities activities.
Some travel bursaries of up to $400 per person are available for Early Career Researchers
Expression of interest deadline: June 30. Read on...
| | | MusicLIVES Symposium, Brisbane, 26 June
The Sociology of Music thematic group invites TASA members to the MusicLIVES Symposium, at The Tivoli theatre in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, on Wednesday 26th June, 9am-5pm. MusicLIVES will showcase the work of SoM members and bring together academic, music industry and policy stakeholders, with focus sessions on ‘Sociology of music today’ and ‘Crisis and reinvention for live music in Australia’.
MusicLIVES is presented by the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, with support from TASA thematic group event funding. Further details and registration on the SoM webpage (expand Members’ News).
| | | The nomination deadline for the below 2024 TASA Awards is July 17th:
Note, applications for TASA2024 bursaries will open on Monday July 22nd and close on Monday August 19th.
| 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 - Place, Identity, and Localism in Populist Politics
Australian Catholic University
Working with fellow member Rachel Busbridge
Applications close: 11:59pm (AEST), Friday 28 June. Read on...
| | 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: Basic income and the financial challenges of everyday life
Hybrid event
Wednesday 3rd July 2024, 5pm - 6pm, Newcastle city
Discussants include fellow members Julia Cook, Julia Coffey & Steven Threadgold
| New: Financial precarity, basic income and securing young people’s futures: challenging the intensifying financial violence of everyday life
Hybrid event
Wednesday 3rd July 2024, 10am - 2pm AEST
Chair: Julia Coffey
Speakers:
- Ben Matthews and Adriana Haro: Creative industry students, wageless work and the projectariat
- Rachael Jacobs: Can it work here?: Lessons from the BIA (Basic Income for the Arts) Pilot in Ireland
- Anne Gotfredsen: No time to waste in a teenage wasteland – girls’ precarious leisure in rural Sweden
- heal: The (re)turn to the family in the post-welfare state: what do we overlook when we talk about the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’?
- Josh Healy and Andi Pekarek: Inviting vista or hostile landscape? Young Australians’ views of gig work
- Ben Spies-Butcher: Basic Income in Precarious Times: Promises and limits
- Steve Threadgold: From entrepreneurial speculators to hopeful gamblers? Young people’s subjectivities and orientations towards the future
| Emotions of the Future
Friday 22 November
Macquarie University, Sydney
| Applied Worldwide Student Essay Competition: Why is Sociology Important?
Submission deadline: June 1st. Read on...
| So Fi Zine #15
Sociological fiction, poetry and visual art
| Conservative Public History
With speaker fellow member Neville Buch presenting on Buckley in Australia: Considering Local Social Discourses among the Australian States (1938-1987)
June 20, 10am - 6pm
| Call for Submissions - Journals
| Slavery and Freedom in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Lens
Sociology, Special Issue
New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis
Social Movement Studies
This special issue would like to go beyond discussions of “old” and “new” movements, popular during the 1990s, and instead emphasise the usefulness of using social movement and collective action theories for analysing the development, strategies, and consequences of labour movements — in short, to bring the labour movement back to social movements studies.
Abstract proposal deadline: June 1, 2024. Read on...
Special issue focussed on Culturally Responsive Qualitative Health Research
Qualitative Health Research
Anticipated publication of Special Issue: March 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 1. Read on....
| New: International Association for the Study of Popular Music – Australia-Aotearoa/New Zealand
Dec 4-6, 2024, Massey University Pukeahu Campus, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa.
Interrogating Capitalism
Vegan Sociology Conference
Online, October 5 & 6, 2024
Submission deadline: June 1. Read on...
Global Conference on Migration and Health Equity
16-18 October, Rydges World Square, Sydney
Submission deadline: June 10. Read on...
Social Science Methodology Conference
Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
November 27-29, 2024, in-person at the University of Sydney
Abstract submission deadline: September 20
Epidemics and transmissible disease. Scourges throughout History.
The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies (TMA for HSES) and the Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development (TWC for SRD)
December 3, 4, 5 / 2024 (Beja - Tunisia).
| WA Migration and Mobilities Update conference
Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley campus, Perth WA.
Wednesday 25 September
Full program and registration details to follow.
Social Sciences Week 2024
9-15 September 2024
SSW2024 promises to be even more fun, insightful and intelligent than ever before. So mark your calendars, spread the word and get ready for a week of activities.
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