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If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays postgraduate event on The sticky stuff – the question of ethics in digital research, hosted by TASA's Postgraduate Portfolio Leader Richa George, with panellists Ben Lyall, Emily van der Nagel and Robbie Fordyce, you can catch up with the recording here.
| We extend our warm congratulations to the following three TASA members who were recently elected as president of an International Sociological Association Research Committee (RC):
- Fran Collyer: elected as President of RC08 History of Sociology for 2023 - 2027
- Jo Lindsay: elected as President of RC24 Environment and Society for 2023 - 2027
- Dan Woodman: elected as President of RC34 Sociology of Youth for 2023 - 2027
If you were recently elected to the Board of a Research Committee, Working Group or Thematic Group, please email the details to Sally in TASA Admin.
| | 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 is Friday 4 August. It is expected that abstracts connect to the broad colloquium theme.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Indigo Willing, Anthony Pappalardo (2023) Skateboarding, Power and Change. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore | | "This sociological book aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how change happens through the perspectives of key change makers in skateboarding, from subculture to Olympic sport." - Co-authors Dr Indigo Willing and Anthony Papplardo
The book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the ‘ethical turn’ in skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and industry insiders cover themes including First Nations, Black and People of Color, skater-run creative innovations, anti-colonialism, anti-racism initiatives, and a growing focus on equity and empowering skaters historically discriminated against due to gender and/or sexuality. These dynamic changes are also connected to conceptual and theoretical frameworks from skate research, journalism, and sociology. This is a must-read for anyone interested in subcultures and social change. Read on...
| | | Halliwell, S., Hickey, A., du Plessis, C., Mullens, A. B., Sanders, T., Gildersleeve, J., Phillips, T. M., Debattista, J., Clark, K. A., Hughto, J. M. W., Daken, K., & Brömdal, A. (2023). “Never Let Anyone Say That a Good Fight for the Fight for Good Wasn’t a Good Fight Indeed”: The Enactment of Agency Through Military Metaphor by One Australian Incarcerated Trans Woman. In H. Panter & A. Dwyer (Eds.), Transgender People and Criminal Justice: An Examination of Issues in Victimology, Policing, Sentencing, and Prisons (pp. 183-212). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29893-6_8
| Maturi, J. (2023). Revisiting Empowerment Through Critical Praxis: Perspectives of Front-Line Workers Supporting Refugee Women Experiencing Gendered Violence in Australia. Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099231186199 [OPEN ACCESS]
Bedford, A., Brömdal, A., Kerby, M., & Baguley, M. (2023). Just How Radical Is Radical: Children’s Picture Books and Trans Youth. Children's Literature in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09537-9 [OPEN ACCESS]
Watson, J., Bryce, I., Phillips, T. M., Sanders, T., & Brömdal, A. (2023). Transgender Youth, Challenges, Responses, and the Juvenile Justice System: A Systematic Literature Review of an Emerging Literature. Youth Justice, 0(0), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254231167344 [OPEN ACCESS]
Balmer, A., Brömdal, A., Mullens, A., Kynoch, K., & Osborne, S. (2023). Effectiveness of interventions to reduce sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses in incarcerated adult populations: A systematic review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 0(0), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.11124/jbies-22-00444 [OPEN ACCESS]
| New: Narratives, needs, networks: understanding militant wellness
Presented by fellow member Vivian Gerrand from Deakin University, the seminar will consider radicalisation with wellness communities based on research Vivian has undertaken on understanding militant wellness.
Online, Tuesday, July 25 · 1 - 2pm AEST
Spiritual and wellness communities, long-time proponents of complementary and alternative healing practices, were not immune to conspiracy thinking well before the arrival of COVID-19. The introduction of divisive QAnon ideology into these communities through prominent lifestyle influencers has led some to radicalize along conspiritual trajectories of militancy (Beres, Remski and Walker 2020, Kelly 2020, Khalil 2020), including recruitment into violent extremism (Berger, Aryaeinejad and Looney 2020, Avis 2020). COVID-19 intensified engagement with this movement, which has attracted new adherents through the promotion of the idea that the pandemic was an opportunity for awakening, planetary ascension and transformation, in pointed contrast to government public health and biomedical strategies adopted to address the crisis that were represented as a threat to freedom, mental and physical wellbeing.
| |
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.
| 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.
| New: Equity in the Creative Industries
2025 Special Issue
Guest editors fellow members Sheree Gregory, Fabian Cannizzo, Yinghua Yu and Tom Barnes
The special issue will focus on equity in the creative industries and how debates over inequality in creative work help us to understand the sociology of cultural work and labour.
Watch this space for the call for papers.
| New: 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... | | To celebrate the recent XX World Congress of Sociology, Taylor and Francis have made the following Health Sociology Review issues open access for the month of July:
| | | New: 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.
| | | New: 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 | Women's Health Hub Launch
| New: This Monday 24 July, 3pm – 4pm AEST, Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Ged Kearney MP, will launch the new Women’s Health Hub. The Women’s Health Hub is a valuable national resource dedicated to improving health outcomes for all women by providing guidance and information for those working in policy, research and practice across the broader health ecosystem. Register via Zoom to secure your spot.
Speakers include: The Hon Ged Kearney MP, Sasha Kutabah Sarago, Sarah Firth, and fellow member Sienna Aguilar
| Special Issue - Call for Papers
| New: 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.
| New: Animal Cultures
Australasian Animal Studies Association
University of Sydney, 27th & 28th of November, as part of the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Conference theme – Animal Cultures – encompasses emerging scientific and philosophical considerations of culture in non-human animal communities, as well as culturally-informed human views of other animals. Cultural transmission has been observed in a wide array of species (Whiten 2021), facilitating the acquisition of social and ecological knowledge and behaviours that influence biological and social wellbeing (Brakes et al. 2019).
| 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
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| | 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?
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