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Next week's TASA Thursdays event is a gathering of NSW experts advocating for Northern Rivers residents.
- Jemima Mowbray (Policy and Advocacy Manager, Tenants' Union of NSW)
- Brendan Ross (Coordinator, Northern Rivers Tenants Advice & Advocacy Service)
- Simone Hickey (Financial Counsellor)
- John Lee OAM (You Have a Friend)
- Jean S. Renouf (Resilient Byron)
For details about this event, and to register, read on...
| | Renewed call for Vice-President nominations
| As a reminder, no nominations were received for the Vice-President portfolio. If you are interested in nominating for the Vice-President position, and you would like more information, we encourage you to contact Peta Cook, the current holder of that role, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, TASA President or Sally Daly in TASA Admin. To nominate, please ensure your Candidate and Nominator forms are submitted to TASA Admin by midday, Monday August 15th.
| | TASA 2022 - Book Launches
| If you have recently published a book and you are interested in launching it at our conference in November, please email Sally Daly in TASA Admin.
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Call out for ISA 2023 Aligned Thematic Events | TASA is now inviting applications for Thematic Events for 2023 to be aligned with the International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne (25 June – 1 July 2023).
Given the importance of supporting the ISA and allied events, TASA will be providing additional funding for individual thematic events in 2023 and will be accepting applications from thematic groups and general TASA members.
The ISA Aligned Thematic Events scheme allows for groups of TASA members to apply for up to $3,000 for activities that support a thematic area and are aligned with any of the ISA Thematic, Working or Research groups. Note, you do not have to be an ISA member or registered for ISA 2023 in order to apply for the funding.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | If you are hosting a Social Sciences Week event this year, please email the details to TASA Admin so that we can assist with promoting your event.
| Lee Monaghan & Jonathan Gabe (2022) Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, Sage. | How do we understand health in relation to society? What role do social processes, structures and culture play in shaping our experiences of health and illness? How do we understand medicine and healthcare within a sociological framework?
Drawing on international literature and examples, this new edition of Key Concepts in Medical Sociology:
· Systematically explains the concepts that have preoccupied medical sociology from its inception, and which have shaped the field as it exists today.
· Includes new entries, such as pandemics and epidemics, the environment, intersectionality, pharmaceuticalization, medical tourism and sexuality.
· Begins each entry with a definition of the concept then examines its origins, development, strengths and weaknesses, and concludes with suggested further reading for independent learning. Read on...
| | | Rebekah Jaung & Jae-Eun Noh (2022), "Korea Diaspora Peace Movements in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia" in V. Morse (Eds). Peace Action: Struggles for a Decolonised, Demilitarised Oceania and East Asia. Wellington: Left of the Equator Press. (ISBN 978-0-47-363445-2)
| The Special Issue on ‘(Con)spirituality, Science and COVID-19’ has been published with the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. This Special Issue was guested edited by Anna Halafoff, Enqi Weng, Alexandra Roginski and Cristina Rocha. All publications can be accessed here.
Halafoff, A; Weng, E.; Roginski, A. and Rocha, C. (2022), ‘Introduction to the Special Issue: (Con)spirituality, Science and COVID-19’, Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 35(2), 133-140. [open access]
| Clark, E., Munday, J., & Watts, A. (2022). Stigma, shame and family secrets as consequences of mental illness in previous generations. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, online first, https://doi.10.1177/13634593221114751
Staines Z. Work and wellbeing in remote Australia: Moving beyond punitive ‘workfare.’ Journal of Sociology. July 2022. doi:10.1177/14407833221114669
| | Ash Barnwell & Signe Ravn (2022) Narrative research meets creative writing with Barbara Barbosa Neves and Josephine Wilson, Narrative Now, July 29. | | Michelle Peterie (2022) Visiting Immigration Detention. Bristol University Press, July 28 | TASA Thursdays
For a full list of our TASA Thursdays events for 2022, as well as the registration links, please visit TASAweb here.
| Fake news in digital cultures: Technology, populism and digital misinformation
| Cultures of Wellbeing Symposium
A Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Event
10am-3pm, Wednesday, 23 November
Deakin Downtown, Deakin University
Abstract submission deadline: August 31. Read on...
| New: Youth and money matters: Precarity, wellbeing and digital media
A Sociology of Youth Thematic Group symposium
Keynote - Professor Lisa Adkins, FASS, University of Sydney
Panellists: A/Prof Steven Threadgold, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Benjamin Hanckel and Dr Natalie Hendry
Monday 28 November 9am-4pm
| New: Conceptualising Youth Mobilities Amidst Social Challenges Workshop
Call for Abstracts
Online, 28th November and in-person at Deakin Business Corporate (Burwood, Melbourne).
The workshop welcomes all researchers who wish to share their scholarship and participate in discussions around youth mobilities. The theme of Social Challenges is particularly timely considering the growing knowledge of the challenges that young people face as society emerges from COVID-19 associated lockdowns; grappling with, in many cases, pre-existing issues including mental health, employment, racism and inequality, among others.
Submissions focusing especially on youth mobilities are welcome. However, other topics to be considered are:
- Youth transitions
- Youth futures and aspirations
- Belonging
- Transnational ties
- Covid-19 and youth
| | Last week the Sociology out West group hosted its second seminar at Curtin University, with around 30 participants, including a small class of third year undergrad majors. Two speakers presented on research they are currently involved with. Dr Donna Butorac spoke about a multi authored book project focused on a range of projects exploring experiences and challenges of English language learning among migrant communities. Dr Sarah Palmer recounted her experience as a sociologist working first in the private sector with a social research company, and currently in the public sector, as a senior researcher on parliamentary inquiries. Sarah emphasised how her sociological skills and knowledge have contributed to her work. Read on... | | |
Deadlines for our TASA hosted ISA 2023 XX World Congress are now available here. For quick reference, the abstract submission deadline is September 30.
| New: On behalf of the JOS editorial team, we are delighted to announce that the following special issues have been selected for 2024 (in no particular order):
- 'Decolonising Truth Globally: Challenges and Possibilities' with guest editors Yin Paradies, Vanessa Barolsky and Laura Rodriguez Castro;
- 'The Digital Welfare State: Contestations, Considerations and Entanglements' with guest editors Georgia van Toorn, Karen Soldatić and Paul Henman;
- 'Future/Tense: A Sociology of Temporal (Dis)Order' with guest editors Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom, Barbara Prainsack, Michelle Peterie, Leah Williams Veazey, and Stephanie Raymond.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Yuwinbir – this way! Going beyond meeting points between Indigenous knowledges and health sociology
Health Sociology Review special issue Volume 31, Issue 2 (2022)
Guest edited by Megan Williams and Demelza Marlin.
All articles are on OPEN ACCESS for 90 days here.
| Professor of Sociology
Uppsala University, Sweden
Application deadline: September 30. Read on...
Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Lethbridge, Canada
Application deadline: September 1. Read on...
| 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.
| | | | 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. | | | New: Multicultural Education Aides Supporting Students from Refugee Backgrounds
This PhD scholarship is offered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute in partnership with Foundation House University of Melbourne
Application Deadline: Monday 3 October. Read on...
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship for Writers
This Fellowship is currently available to mid-career writers with active participation and engagement in social justice issues; who are under the age of 40; and who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA+, living with a disability, or culturally and linguistically diverse.
| New: Childhood, Youth and Activism: Global Perspectives on Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates
Chapter proposals for the forthcoming book in the Sociology Studies of Children and Youth series.
Guest edited by Katie Wright and Julie McLeod.
Long abstracts due 10 September 2022 with chapters due 10 January 2023.
The full CFP can be found here. Details on the book series can be found here.
| Round Table Consultation Event - Understanding domestic violence and religion: Exploring how faith-based organisations can be part of the solution
This event is a national gathering to share information about initiatives and research demonstrating how churches and faith communities in Australia are working to prevent and respond to domestic and family violence.
Online or in-person (Melbourne), Friday 28 October,
| Ethics in fragile research contexts: Collective explorations
Thursday 18 August, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEST, University of Melbourne organised by the Australian Association for Research in Education. This is a hybrid event: both online and face-to-face.
How do we prepare Sydney's food system for the future?
The workshops are relevant to food systems innovators and community members in the City of Sydney to envision the future of food in Sydney and map current food innovation.
For Food Innovators: 11.00am, Tuesday, 02 August
For Community Members: 07:00pm, Wednesday, 03 August
| Talking Ageing with Attitude
28 October, Clunes
| War, Economic Strife and the Long-Lasting Intersectional Effects on Refugees, Minorities, Disabled People and the Global Environment
Free online postgraduate workshop
Presenters can approach the issues from whichever intersectional preference they choose.
Hosted by (In) Justice International and TASA
September 14th, 9:00pm to September 15th 12:50am AEST
Abstract submission deadline: August 15. Read on...
| Sociology and Space
Invitation for authors’ contributions to the journal’s special issue triggered by the war in Ukraine
Abstract submission deadline: September 1. Read on...
Visioni LatinoAmericane
Latin America between socio-environmental, health and conflict emergencies. Risks, strategic and geopolitical choices,
socio-economic repercussions, shortage of raw materials and food. Reality and perspectives
Adult Migrants’ Language Learning, Labour Market, and Social Inclusion
Special Issue, Social Inclusion
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe
Volume 15 (Forthcoming 2024)
Edited by Olga Breskaya, University of Padova, and Siniša Zrinščak, University of Zagreb
Disabled People and the Intersectional Nature of Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion, Volume 11, Issue 4
Abstract submission deadline: November 30. 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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| | TASA Documents and Policies | | 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. | | | | Contact TASA Admin: admin@tasa.org.au | |