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Welcome to this week’s edition of TASA's newsletter!
It’s always inspiring to see our members’ continued contributions to the field, and this week we’re celebrating some fantastic new publications—from thought-provoking books to insightful journal articles and news analysis pieces. We’re also featuring a variety of upcoming events and calls for abstracts, offering opportunities for collaboration and discussion across our diverse community.
Let’s continue to share, engage, and build connections as we move forward together in advancing sociology:-)
| Ben Wadham, & James Connor (2024) Warrior Soldier Brigand: Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force. Melbourne University Press. |  | Questions of institutional abuse have been at the centre of numerous royal commissions, inquiries and reviews of the clergy, the police and defence forces over the past decade. This scrutiny has highlighted how those organisations foster forms of violence and violation. One of their principal characteristics is that the culture of abuse and its perpetration is largely the work of men. In Warrior Soldier Brigand, Ben Wadham and James Connor argue that three pillars shape the patterns of abuse in the Australian Defence Force: martial masculinities, military exceptionalism and fraternity. Historically, the military has been an almost exclusively male domain, but since the Vietnam War it has become an all-volunteer force and more culturally diverse, a change that has proven to be profoundly challenging, and one the ADF has not always readily welcomed nor sufficiently addressed. While the ADF may train and accommodate some of the best military personnel in the world, it has not resolved the use of that violent potential against its own. Read on... | | | Moghimi, H.A. (2024). Visualizing Refugees: Multimodal Construction of Ukrainian, Afghan, and Syrian Refugees in Neoliberal Multiculturalism of Australia and Canada. In: Novais, R.A., Arcila Calderón, C. (eds) Representations of Refugees, Migrants, and Displaced People as the ‘Other’. Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65084-0_9
| Brosnan, C., Collyer, F., & Williams, K. (2024). Promising the earth: Forms of capital promised and pursued in Australian-Chinese research collaborations. Journal of Sociology, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241288954 [OPEN ACCESS].
Huang, Xianbi. 2024. “What matters more for happiness than income in China: Intentional activities, social attitudes, or social comparison?”, Sociological Forum. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13023 |
For the full details, and to register for the Journal of Sociology Special Issue launch, read on...
| ‘Healthy’ Food Practices: Going beyond Structure versus Agency - call for abstracts
| | A 2026 Health Sociology Review Special Issue Guest edited by fellow member Natalie Jovanovski and, colleague, Bhavna Middha. |  | | Natalie Jovanovski, RMIT University |  | | Bhavna Middha, RMIT University | | |
Our interactions with food are critical to physical health, psychological health, social health, spiritual health, environmental health, among many others. How we grow food, produce and manufacture it, how it is provisioned, and how we consume and digest it, celebrate and mourn over it, play with and feel anxious about it, as well as discard it, indicates complex relationships between self and society. Despite being inextricably connected, most discussions about food within sociology are siloed, focusing either on the structural factors that shape our food practices, or our personal choices and their consequences. This has limited how we understand the role of food practices – or the bridging of or going beyond structure and agency – in shaping people’s health and wellbeing.
This special issue advances a holistic focus on food in health sociology, using a theoretical lens that goes beyond structure versus agency in explaining food practices.
Abstract submission deadline: 23rd November. Read on... | Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Special Issue
Health Sociology Review, Volume 33, Issue 2 (2024)
To access all articles of the special issue, read on...
| | You are invited to join the Generations and Housing 'hybrid' symposium
Monday November 25th, Perth and online.
‘Wicked problems’ are social issues that are difficult to define, challenging to resolve, and highly contested (Rittel and Webber, 1973). Housing in Australia has become a ‘wicked problem’ with multiple layers.
For the full details of the event, and to register, Read on...
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Research Officer
Monash Rural Health - Mildura
Part-time, fraction (0.4), 3-year fixed-term appointment, Pro-rata of $78,255 - $89,888 pa HEW Level 05 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
Working on studies of people who use illicit drugs (see https://www.monash.edu/medicine/rural-health/research/projects/mixmax). This is a great opportunity to be involved in a large-scale research project with an internationally renowned team. The Research Officer will be engaged in diverse tasks including scheduling bookings, conducting interviews using computerized data collection forms and performing clinical testing such as venous blood samples and spirometry tests. Training for all study tasks (including collecting blood and doing spirometry), will be provided.
Enquiries to Associate Professor Bernadette Ward, +61 3 5440 9064 / 0427059205. Bernadette.ward@monash.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies is currently looking for a full-time Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow, who will contribute to various research projects and activities carried out by the Centre, with a specific focus on advancing knowledge and understanding on technology, gender, and youth.
For details, read on...
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Hong Kong Baptist University
Review of applications is ongoing until the position is filled.
| Young People & Disasters
Victoria University's Youth and Community Research Group & Youth Affairs Council Victoria
The PhD research must focus on disasters in Australian context but can target specific aspects of young people's experience.
Work with fellow member Fiona McDonald
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: What it means to be free
On the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Annual lecture by Sisonke Msimang
Friday, November 15, 6 - 7pm, AWST
WA State Library
| New: The Academic Balancing Act: Unpacking the Dynamics of Workload Pressure and Burnout
SHAPE Futures
28th November 2024, 1pm - 5pm, AWST.
For the full details, see the image below and Read on...
| | Josephine Browne & Zoei Sutton (2024) Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Change.
Online
Friday November 1st, 6:30pm - 8pm AEDT
| | | New: Towards Refugee Belonging in Australia and Scotland
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, The University of Sydney
Thursday, October 31 · 12:30 - 2:30pm AEDT
The University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus (zoom option available)
Chair by fellow member Alex Broom
‘Youth belonging: Rethinking transitions, integration & placemaking in a mobile world’
La Trobe University Agnes Heller Lecture 2024
Speaker: fellow member Anita Harris
Monday November 11, 9:30 am - 11:00am (AEDT)
| Working to End Racial Oppression International Conference
University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand, 9th-12th February 2025
Keynote speakers include Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Ruha Benjamin, Michelle Johnson-Jennings, Jeffrey Ansloos, Donna Cormack, Nate Rew.
Abstract submission deadline: October 31st, 2024. Read on...
| Accessible Feedback in Academic Research
University of Greenwich
This is a global research initiative that aims to transform feedback practices in academia. The research team are working in collaboration with the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training; a community of over 1,000 academics worldwide advocating for transparency, rigour, and inclusivity in research. This project addresses longstanding challenges with traditional peer-review processes and other well-established feedback mechanisms in academic research.
According to the researchers, this is a unique opportunity to contribute to a global conversation and make a real difference in the academic community.
You can access the survey here. | Resources on dialogue, deliberation and public engagement
The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
| So Fi Zine is once again open for your submissions of sociological flash fiction, poetry and visual art. Get these in by October 31 for consideration for edition #16.
| Birth, breastfeeding, and beyond: Feminist research on the family
Deakin University's Sociology and Social Change Collective
Monday, 18th November, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM AEDT
This is an interdisciplinary online seminar discussing feminist research on the family with a focus on maternal experiences and representations.
| | On Paul Ricoeur’s Lectures on Imagination: Jean-Luc Amalric, Saulius Geniusas, and George H. Taylor in Discussion
23rd Oct: New York 7pm | Chicago 6pm
TODAY 24th Oct: Hong Kong 7am | Melbourne 10am | Paris 1am.
You can access the event here. | | | New: CHASS Future Leaders
The CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize aims to recognise and reward young Australian writers (35 and under). The theme for 2024 is 'open'. The winner will receive $2000. Please email your submissions to helen@futureleaders.com.au by the extended deadline of November 30th, 2024 and cc CHASS Admin (membership@chass.org.au).
Sorrento Creative Writing Prize
The Prize celebrates the annual Sorrento Writers Festival and its mission to bring writers and readers together. The winner will receive $5,000 and their writing featured at the 2025 Sorrento Writers Festival and at www.writing.org.au.
| Routledge Studies in Gender and the Criminal Legal System
Edited by fellow member Annette Bromdal et al.
This exciting new book series has been established to create and enable a body of research that will inform debates and policy surrounding gender within and around the criminal legal system.
| Special Issues - Call for Submissions
| Aging Out of Out-of-Home Care: New services, sustaining support and tackling system failures
Call for Papers in Child and Family Social Work
Guest Editors: fellow members Joel McGregor, Ben Lohmeyer, and colleague Alhassan Abdullah
The age at which young people age out of care, and the support offered to them post-care, varies significantly across state, national and international boundaries. Yet, there is an international momentum for extending the age of young people exiting care including in multiple states of Australia, the USA and the UK. In response to the global movements to extend care for young people in out-of-home care into their early 20s, this special issue aims to instigate an international foundation for a new research and practice agenda for improving young people’s transition out of out-of-home care and their journey towards independent living.
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2025. Read on...
Incarceration and health
Scientific Reports
Original research into incarceration and health, including studies on the health of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families and healthcare within correctional facilities are welcome.
Guest editors include fellow member Annette Bromdal.
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