| The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. | | | | Welcoming a new Executive Member | We are very pleased to announce that TASA's Executive has appointed fellow member Aisling Bailey, Swinburne University, as the Equity and Inclusion Portfolio Leader, replacing Heidi Hetz who had to step down for personal reasons earlier this year.
Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Aisling; their image and bio are below:
|  | With a background in environmental anthropology, Aisling’s research has investigated the ways in which the western dualistic conceptualisation of nature as separated from culture has shaped societal understandings and behaviour towards the natural environment. Informed by a phenomenological approach, Aisling’s research has focused upon practical initiatives that seek to bring people and place together working with organisations including the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies (CERES) and the community gardening organisation 3000 Acres. Current research interests include the reciprocity of the health and wellbeing of people and place; facilitating sustainable behaviour; nature based solutions; equitable access to healthy environments; climate adaptation, and reviews articles for a number of environmental and social science based journals. Aisling is the Coordinator of the Climate and Social Justice Major and convenes the units Environment and Society SOC10005 and Changing our Climate SOC30020, as well as the Climate Action challenge within the Bachelor of Arts capstsone unit Grand Challenges ART30001. Aisling is an affiliate of the Centre for Urban Transitions and is currently supervising PhD projects on connection to place; settler colonialism; environmental and climate discourse; social practice theory's application to food waste; and the ecological crisis of the Murray Darling Basin. Read on... | | | | A warm congratulations is extended to fellow member Claire Moran, Monash University, who graduated this week. Claire's supervisors were fellow members Brady Robards, & Helen Forbes-Mewett as well as Virginia Mapedzahama. Claire's thesis is titled: Afrocentric Youth Perspectives of Belonging on Social Media.
| | | This year, TASA’s annual event sees a change of format due to the ISA World Congress of Sociology being held in Melbourne in June. TASA’s 2023 November event will be run as a colloquium involving 20 panel sessions (80 papers), two afternoon plenaries, social events, and TASA’s AGM and awards presentation. Details about the event can be accessed here.
Panel submissions will be open until May 29th. You can access the submission form via the orange link below:
| 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.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Walter, Maggie., Kukutai, Tahu., Gonzales, A., & Henry, Robert. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology (online edn, Oxford Academic, 8 Dec. 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197528778.001.0001, accessed 10 May 2023.
|  | The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology is, in part, a response to the limited space allowed for Indigenous Peoples within the discipline of sociology.
The very small existing sociological literature locates the Indigenous within the non-Indigenous gaze and the Eurocentric structures of the discipline reflect a continuing reluctance to actively recognize Indigenous realities within the key social forces literature of class, gender, and race at the discipline's center.
But the ambition of this volume, its editors, and its contributors is larger than a challenge to this status quo. They do not speak back to sociology, but rather, claim their own sociological space. The starting point is to situate Indigenous sociology as sociology by Indigenous sociologists. The authors in The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology, all leading and emerging Indigenous scholars, provide an authoritative, state of the art survey of Indigenous sociological thinking. The contributions in this Handbook demonstrate that the Indigenous sociological voice is a not a version of the existing sub-fields but a new sociological paradigm that uses a distinctively Indigenous methodological approach.The volume demonstrates the breadth of Indigenous sociological thinking and how the dual aspects of the Lifeworld, peoplehood and colonizing dispossession, shape the lived realities of Indigenous society. Each chapter in the handbook is written by Indigenous scholars. The handbook disrupts the traditional non-Indigenous sociological gaze by demonstrating a new paradigm of Indigenous sociology. Read on... | | |  | This edited collection focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities (e.g. USA, Australia, Germany and Italy) and majorities (e.g. Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Morocco). Most chapters in this new edition have been revised and the book as a whole has been updated to give even more international coverage.
This text provides a sociological and global analysis of a phenomenon that goes beyond the ‘West versus the rest’ dichotomy. One example of this is how included are case studies in Muslim minority countries not exclusively located in the West. Although the contributors of this book come from various disciplines such as law, anthropology, and sociology, this volume has a strong sociological focus on the analysis of Shari’a. The final part of the book indeed draws out from all the case studies explored some ground-breaking theories on the sociology of Shari’a such as the application of Black, Chambliss and Eisenstein’s sociological theories. This text appeals to students and researchers working in the sociology of religion. Read on... | | |
Shaw, S. Paparini, S. Murdoch, J. Green, J. Greenhalgh, T. Hanckel, B. James, H.M. Petticrew, M. Wood, G.W. Papoutsi, C. (2023) ‘TRIPLE C reporting principles for case study evaluations of the role of context in complex interventions’, BMC Medical Research Methodology, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01888-7 [OPEN ACCESS]
Malatzky C & Couch D (2023). The Power in Rural Place Stigma, Symposium: Rural Bioethics, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry,
Barbara Barbosa Neves, Alan Petersen, Mor Vered, Adrian Carter, and Maho Omori. "Artificial intelligence in long-term care: Technological promise, aging anxieties, and sociotechnical ageism." Journal of Applied Gerontology (2023): 07334648231157370, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07334648231157370 [OPEN ACCESS]
| | Career Development Grant - 2023
| The annual TASA Career Development Grant seeks to support the career development activities of TASA members where these activities are not covered by other funding.
A total of $4,500 is available, with a maximum of $1,500 available per applicant.
Application deadline: 20th May. Read on...
| TASA Thursdays
We have several TASA Thursdays event lined up:
June 15th: The Voice. Speakers: Joann Schmider (Indigenous Portfolio Leader) and others TBC.
If you would like to be a presenter/panellist for one of our TASA Thursdays events, please contact Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Editor.
| Inquiring for Life - How to build in research and evaluation systemically for (truly) living systems
Applied Sociology Thematic Group presentation
Tuesday June 6th, 1-2pm (AEST) Online
Speaker: fellow member Yoland Wadsworth
With a long career of 28 years in applied social research (1973-2001) and 20 years in academic settings (2002-2022), in this presentation Yoland will report on the most important insights derived from her work. Her questions arose initially out of the puzzle of why it is that health, community and human services want to hear from their service-users and paradoxically act repeatedly as if they don't want to hear from their users. This inquiry morphed into a PhD that asked how research and evaluation could be both methodologically sound and effectively valuable for the purposes of meeting service end-users' needs. And finally it became a question of how could the act of human inquiry per se best bring life to question-askers and serve their deepest value-driven purposes. The presentation will set out to outline a complex theory by means of a relatively simple and hopefully familiar conceptual cycle 'backbone', on which the theory's extensive implications may then be mapped. We will steer between over simplification and excessive complexity of what is really a Great Big Theory of Everything! (Although this theory hopes to escape the worst dangers of Grand Theory by being reflexive in its own terms.)
Zoom: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88331762536?pwd=ZFVKTHg0WmFWZ1hIRXMwelh2RHI1dz09
|  | | ISA World Congress of Sociology Practice Session
Friday 9 June 4:30-8:30, AWST, Forrest Hall, corner of Stirling Highway and Hackett Drive.
Are you presenting at the ISA World Congress in June/July? Or at another mid-year conference? If so, come along to present your ideas at a supportive and collegial practice session in early June. If not, come along to support your friends and hear about the latest sociologically-inspired research coming out of Western Australia.
This will be a rapid-fire presentation model with 10-15 minutes per presenter (depending on number of abstracts received) with structured feedback to help you improve your work.
Please send abstracts to sociologyoutwest@gmail.com by TOMORROW 19 May 2023.
If you are presenting 2+ papers at ISA, please feel free to send both abstracts if you would like to do so. You will only be allocated time to present one paper but both can be featured in our Sociology Out West event program.
This event is generously supported by the Forrest Research Foundation. There will be light refreshments and drinks provided after the presentations
Register by here by June 5th.
| | | TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events
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#HS23 Epistemic Justice for Healthy Societies
ONLINE, June 20th, 2023, Sydney. 1:00pm - 3:00pm AEST.
Associate Professor Seye Abimbola (University of Sydney, Australia) will join Professor Nelson de Barros (University of Campinas, Brazil) to deliver their perspectives on epistemic justice in global health, with an introduction by SCHS Deputy Director, Dr Katherine Kenny and a discussion led by SCHS Deputy Director, Associate Professor Nadine Ehlers.
For the full details, and to register, read on...
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Disrupted plans, digital modalities, and undecided futures
June 22nd, 2023, Melbourne
Plenary Speakers: Professor Crystal Abidin (Curtin University), Dr Joshua Kalemba (Flinders University), Dr Brendan Churchill (University of Melbourne), and Dr Jacqueline Menager (Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet).
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Transformative social science: a dialogue between evidence, policy and practice
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Panellists: A/Prof Catherine Robinson, UTAS (sociologist), Anna Adcock (sociologist & Māori scholar), Research Fellow in the Centre for Women's Health Research, Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati (sociologist), Dr Simone Casey, Senior Policy Advisor ACOSS (social policy), and Prof Barry Judd, University of Melbourne (Indigenous studies)
For the full details, read on...
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Single parenting, co-parenting, and post-separation families: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynotes: Dr Moeata Keil (University of Auckland), Professor Kathryn Edin (Princeton University), and Professor Kay Cook (Swinburne University).
For the full details, read on...
| | | Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Valeria Pulignano
For the full details, read on... | | | | ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and Transitions to Adulthood.
Transnational Mobilities and Youth Transitions
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne, 9:30am - 5:00pm
Keynote: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
For the full details, and to register, read on...
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Reimaging social security in Australia to rebuild our social safety net
June 22nd, Melbourne, 6:00pm
Speakers include: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London) Professor Kay Cook, Swinburne University, Associate Professor Elise Klein, ANU, Dr Dina Bowman, Brotherhood of St. Laurence, Nerita Waight, the CEO of Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, Chabel Khan, University of Melbourne, Natasha Thomson, disability self-advocate, Terese Edwards, Executive Director, Council for Single Mothers and their Children, Professor Karen Soldatic, University of Western Sydney
| | Decentering knowledge in researching migration of the Global South
Hybrid event, June 24th, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote speakers: Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor of Sociology, Australian Catholic University; Lan Anh Hoang, Associate Professor in Development Studies, the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne; and Irudayja Rajan, Professor at the International Institute for Migration and Development (IIMAD), Kerela, India.
Registration closes June 15th. You can register here.
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Place Economies
July 5th and 6th- Adelaide. The first afternoon/evening (i.e., the 5th) will be at UniSA City West; the second full day (i.e., the 6th) will be at Flinders Victoria Square Campus.
Keynote: Professor Ian Woodward, Southern Denmark University
For further details, read on...
| | | 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.
For details, and to register events, visit the SSW website here.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Health Sociology Review - Volume: 32, Number: 1 (2023) has been published. It is a special issue on Sociological Aspects of Knowledge Translation. You can access the Table of Contents here. Note, most of the articles are available on open access.
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New: Associate Research Fellow
Deakin University, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
The Associate Research Fellow will conduct activities in the area of social change and gender specific studies and will be required to coordinate and assist research within the Australian Research Council funded project: 'Anti-women online movements: Pathways and patterns of participation'.
Professorial Research Fellow
La Trobe University
Application deadline: June 4th. Read on...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Sociology of Health and Race
University of Melbourne
An opportunity to lead Indigenous health research with a passionate and dedicated team.
Application deadline: TOMORROW May 19th. Read on...
Tenure-Track faculty member
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
| 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. | | | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: National Library of Australia Scholarships and the Asia Study Grants
Guidelines for these scholarships and grants as well as links to the online application forms are available here.
Application deadline: 26 June. | | | New: 2023 Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture: How Did We Get to Here? A Conversation with Jeffrey Alexander and Peter Beilharz
Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture, Melbourne.
Wednesday June 28, 5:45pm-7:45pm
For details, and to register, read on...
Agnes Heller Lecture 2023 - Professor Michèle Lamont
La Trobe University
Tuesday June 27th, 12:30pm - 2:00pm AEST
La Trobe University City Campus
| Journals - Call for Abstracts
| Transient migrants and their information behaviours (special issue)
Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration
This Special Issue specifically looks at the information behaviours of transient migrants – groups of people who are temporarily in a country because of study, work, lifestyle or humanitarian reasons.
Special Issue Editors Shanton Chang, Dana Mckay, & Catherine Gomes
Abstract submission deadline: 1 July. For full details, read on...
| Research Workshop (and Zine)
| Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment: A Critical Feminist Arts/Research Workshop
Ash Watson, Laura Rodriguez Castro, and Sam Trayhurn.
Explore ways of practically extending critical and feminist social research with art – specifically sociological fiction and zine making.
May 26, 10:00am 2:00pm, AEST
Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus Terminal Drive Bilinga, QLD
| Gender - Sport - Society: Focus on the FIFA WWC 2023
The face of sport is changing, and this year Australia is hosting one of the world’s biggest sporting events -- but this time the focus will be on women.
July 28, Southbank, Queensland.
Speakers: Tracey Holmes, Kim Toffoletti, & Nicole Surdyka
| Pedagogic affects in creative, interdisciplinary doctoral research
A seminar on pedagogic affects through creative and interdisciplinary doctoral research
Online, TONIGHT Thursday May 18th, 6:00pm - 7:00pm AEST
| | Transnational Belongings: Practices of Placemaking and Participation in Central America and Europe
Speakers: Noelle Brigden (Marquette University, USA) and Katia Pilati (University of Trento, Italy)
Chaired by: Leah Williams Veazey (University of Sydney)
Monday 3 Jul 2023 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM AEST, University of Sydney (Camperdown) and on zoom
| | | Calls for Abstracts / Chapters for Books | Family and Social Change in the Global South: A Gendered Perspective.
Book to be published by Emerald (2024)
Abstract submission deadline: May 29. Read on...
Deleuze, Guattari, and the Schizoanlaysis of Affective Labour
Schizoanalytic Applications Series, Bloomsbury Publishing
This call for chapters invites scholars, thinkers, and artists, to explore the application, potentials, and dangers, of deploying schizoanalysis and the radical free-play of desiring-production, to realms of affective labour and, more generally, to the commodification of affect.
| QTRG Conference 2023
28th-29th September, Macquarie University and online via Zoom
The Queer Theory Reading Group (QTRG) conference that is open to researchers of any career stage.
A recent explosion of queer voices in media, politics, and research has been seen. This proliferation begs the question: who is given the chance to speak for and within queer communities, and whose voices are diminished or altogether absent. How can queer subjects speak into and against silence? How are such absences correlated with practices of knowing and unknowing?
Abstract submission deadline: May 22nd. Read on...
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