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This week, we are happy to announce a new Thematic Group - the Sociology of Music. Co convened by fellow members Andy Bennett, Sam Whiting, Ben Green and Catherine Strong, the new group aims to advance the sociological study of music and musical cultures. While modern popular music studies has its roots alongside cultural studies, sociological studies of music have served as core texts since the establishment of this interdisciplinary field. Further, older disciplines such as ethnomusicology offer some of the earliest research on the sociology of music, and as musical cultures are always deeply social in context, sociology is a primary vehicle through which to investigate and explore them. More specific than Cultural Sociology, the Sociology of Music is concerned with the structures, practices, and motivations for music-making, production and consumption, and the role of music in society. You can add yourself to the Sociology of Music Thematic Group via your TASAweb membership profile, see image below:
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Join us next Thursday 17th August for this month's TASA Thursdays event titled: The (de-)radical(-ising) potential of r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill.
The growth of the online ‘manosphere’ has raised significant concerns regarding the movement’s highly misogynistic discourses and related lone offender attacks perpetrated by incels.
Presented by fellow member Joshua Thorburn, this webinar will explore a digital ethnography approach to examine r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill, two forums dedicated to assisting individuals leave the manosphere. Utilizing a gendered perspective, this discussion will delve into narratives from these forums to engage with theoretical debates on the conceptual need to recognize masculine agency.
Key focus areas of this discussion will include exploring the radicalization and deradicalization processes, along with examination of narratives from individuals who use these subreddits to divert from joining the manosphere.
You can read up on the topic via Joshua's recently published, open access, article here.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday 17 August 2023
Time: 12:30PM- 13:30PM (AEST)
| In addition to recent announcements of TASA members' involvement with the International Sociological Association's (ISA) Research Committees (RC) and Thematic Groups, we extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Eduardo de la Fuente who was recently elected as Secretary of ISA RC 37 Sociology of the Arts 2023-2027.
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As mentioned last week, the usual suite of conference bursaries are available for TASA 2023. The deadline for all five bursaries, listed below, is August 28th.
TASA's Postgraduate Impact and Engagement Award is also open for applications.
This annual award recognises the impact and engagement of a Postgraduate TASA member’s scholarship that is of high social value to Australian society and/or sociology. We invite TASA Postgraduate members to submit an application (or nominate others) for outstanding impact or engagement with sociological scholarship. Nominations are also welcome from supervisors or peers.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Hanckel, B (2023) ‘LGBT+ Youth and Emerging Technologies in Southeast Asia: Designing for Wellbeing’ Springer |  | This book investigates the ways in which emerging digital technologies are shaping and changing the worlds of sexuality and gender diverse youth in Southeast Asia. Primarily focused on the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia, the book examines the potential of digital technologies to enhance wellbeing in and across these contexts.
Drawing on multi-site ethnographic field research, interviews, survey data, and online content analysis, the book examines the design and use of websites and content by and for LGBT+ youth. The book innovatively interrogates the design of transnational digital wellbeing initiatives, alongside the digital practices of those the technologies are designed for. It illustrates not only the (im)possibilities of technological design, but also the capacity for design to participate in what Hanckel calls ‘(trans)national digital wellbeing’ processes. He asks us to consider the ways that global technologies are contextual—a paradox that is explored throughout the book. Read on...
| | | Berman, N. (2023) ‘Hikikomori and belonging in post-pandemic Japan’, in Tanaka, K. & Selin, H (Eds.), Gender, Safety, Inequality: Key Challenges for Japan, Springer, USA, pp. 77-90. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36331-3_6
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New: Cancelled?: Taking a Closer Look at 'Cancel Culture'
Online, 5 September 2023 at 10:00 am – 11:00 am
TASA members, Claire Tanner, Brady Robards and Kiran Pienaar are convening a panel discussion on ‘cancel culture’ for Social Sciences Week (4-11 September).
Hosted by Monash University in partnership with Deakin University
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New: De-centring academic expertise: The politics of knowledge production and social transformation’.
Call for Abstracts
The symposium will take place at Melbourne University’s Parkville Campus 5th and 6th December with keynotes by Associate Professor Crystal McKinnon (Uni Melb) and Nadia Matiazzo (CEO Women with Disabilities Victoria).
Abstract submission deadline: 11th September. Read on...
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LGBTIQ health, minority stress, and smoking as a queer practice
‘If there was a church for smoking, I’d be there every Sunday’: LGBTIQ health, minority stress, and smoking as a queer practice.
The emergence of LGBTIQ Health as a subcategory of public health is formative of contemporary queer citizenship. Increasing interest in the management and care of queer populations through public health over the last fifteen years has driven a range of health promotion activities aimed at changing the drug use behaviours of queer people.
In-person and online, Friday August 18, 4:00 pm - 5:00pm AEST, La Trobe University City Campus
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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
| The Great Debate: Does Sport Unit Or Divide Us?
6pm - 9pm, September 5th, National Library of Australia
With speaker fellow member David Rowe
| 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.
| Note, the call for a new editorial team (2025-2028) will be disseminated soon.
| 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... | New: Lecturer in Sociology
Australian National University
| 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. | | | | 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: Workshops Program grants
The Academy of the Social Sciences
Up to eight workshops will be funded, providing a maximum grant of $9,000 (excl GST). Whether you're exploring emerging trends, examining pressing societal challenges, or driving meaningful change, these grants offer the financial support needed to bring your workshop concept to life.
| Opening Soon - Call for Applications | New: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
A call for applications to the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program will open on August 30th. The program provides two years of unrestricted research funding, networking and mentoring opportunities for early-career researchers.
| Call for participants – Survey on Administrative Burden in Australian Universities
Fellow members Maree Martinussen and Jenny Chesters ( & colleague) are seeking the views of university workers (any role or contract type) about the administrative demands they face at work, and how these demands impact their working lives. Please find more information on the project website.
| | Building Trust in Humanitarian Action: Migrant and Refugee Perspectives
Monday 21st August, 12pm - 2pm
Western Sydney University, Parramatta City campus
To register, please click here. | | | Special Issue - Call for Papers
| 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: The WA Migration Update
8 September
The Update brings together academia, communities, not-for-profits, the private sector and government, to share experiences and research on migration and settlement, and improve understandings of these critical contemporary issues.
| 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
| 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 | In case you are not aware, you can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2023 - 2024, and their respective portfolios, as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Values Statement, Statement on Academic Freedom, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures, Safe & Inclusive Events, Sustainable Events and TASA History.
| | 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. | | | TASA Admin (Sally): admin@tasa.org.au
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