We are excited to share details of TASA 2023 Keynotes:
- Bronwyn Carlson: A Constitution for survival: ancient laws, dangerous diasporas, and Indigenous futurisms
- Tess Lea: Writing about policy ecology
- Ash Watson: Telling Sociological Stories
We are also happy to share that Na'ama Carlin will be the Women's Breakfast speaker.
The full program details are available on TASAweb here.
| | TASA 2023 - Call for Volunteers
| We are calling for Volunteers to assist with TASA 2023, which will be held at the University of Sydney from Monday 27 November – Wednesday 29 November, 2023.
Lending a hand at the upcoming TASA 2023 Colloquium is a great opportunity to make connections with other sociologists and have a lot of fun too!
For those wanting to become more involved in TASA, it’s also a great first step to help you learn more about the work we do.
If you would like to volunteer, please click here to submit your expression of interest before Wednesday 25th October, 2023.
If you have any questions or queries please contact Penny Toth, TASA Event Manager, via events@tasa.org.au.
| | 2023 Biennial Membership Survey
| A link to TASA's biennial membership survey was emailed to you on Tuesday. The link is also included below. We hope you can respond to the survey, which will help us provide you, and your fellow members, with a high-quality professional association that meets members' needs.
|  | Join us for TASA's Travelling Scholar Lecture: 'Judicial Work & Emotion: A Socio-legal Approach' which will be presented by fellow member Sharyn Roach Anleu on Thursday 26 October 2023.
The growing field of law and emotion examines the presence (and absence) of emotion throughout law and legal work. Impartiality is a foundational value and judicial officers are expected to be impersonal, emotionless, and detached in their courtroom work and decision making.
Sharyn Roach Anleu's socio-legal research that uses a variety of methods demonstrates the ways emotion is embedded in the everyday work of judges, magistrates and their courts. Judicial officers undertake emotion work to regulate their own feelings and display, shaped by the legal framework and feeling rules. They may also need to manage the emotions of others, especially in court. A socio-legal approach shows how emotion can be a valuable resource to enable fair treatment rather than undermining impartial judging.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday 26 October 2023
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am (ACST)
Location: Level 2, Savannah Room, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina
Format: In person & Online
Cost: Complimentary
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Sam Whiting (2023) Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music, Bloomsbury. | Throughout the history of popular music, the careers of many culturally significant artists and groups began on the small stages of local bars clubs, pubs, and discotheques. When the stories of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the New York punk hardcore and post punk scenes are told, iconic venues such as The Cavern, The Marquee and CBGB's serve as the settings of their early chapters Small live music venues such as these are pivotal in the narratives and history of popular music. However, very few of them survive.
This book focusses on the role of small live music venues as incubators for emerging talent and social hubs for music scene participants. Such venues are grassroots spaces of cultural labor and production that often struggle with issues of financial precarity yet are fundamental to the live music ecology of a city, acting both as platforms for emergent performers and spaces of sociality for local music scenes. Read on... | | | | Haro, A. (2023). Racialized Embodiments: Young Queer Latinx Men in Australia. In: Wyn, J., Cahill, H., Cuervo, H. (eds) Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_75-1
| You are invited to the launch of a new edited collection, Temporality, Place and Space in Education & Youth Research (Routledge 2023) by Julie McLeod, Kate O’Connor, Nicole Davis and Amy McKernan.
November 2nd, Melbourne
| Kamran, R., Burns, E. A., Sultan, S., Tahir, S., & Ashraf, S. (2023). Breaking the Silence: Three Pakistani Women Academics’ Accounts of Being Bullied. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1–17. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09518398.2023.2267026
| Research Officer, Safer Futures
La Trobe University
This position has been created to work on a new research project, Creating safer futures: Raising public awareness of child sexual abuse among young adults through digital storytelling. Work with fellow member Katie Wright (project lead).
Assistant Professor (2 positions)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
| 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 | Journals - Call for papers | New: Clinical Sociology Review
Open-access journal
Published by University of Johannesburg Press and Springer’s Clinical Sociology Book Series
| Journal: Special Issue - Call for Papers
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New: New Worlds of Logistical Labour – spaces, places, technologies, workers
Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
This special issue aims to assemble papers located at the interface between studies of work, labour and the evolving field of critical logistics. It intends to address the core question: what exactly is new about ‘new’ work and labour in logistics?
Muslim women in the 21st Century: Agency, influence, lived experience
Religions: a Q1-ranked, peer-reviewed, open-access journal
Muslim women are often portrayed monolithically in popular as well as political discourse. Even the academe has, at times, been dominated by an Orientalist gaze that exoticises the “Muslimwoman” to use miriam cooke’s neologism. This special edition aims to challenge this homogenizing discourse by featuring a range of diverse voices and perspectives.
| THE “HAVES” AND THE “HAVE YACHTS” - Socio- Spatial Struggles in London between the Merely Wealthy” and the “Superrich”
Speaker: Roger Burrows
Free in-person and online event
TODAY Thursday 19 October, 3.30-5 pm, Melbourne and online
For details, and to register, read on...
| Small Area Population Forecasting Methods
Keynote: Dr Kim Johnstone, PhD MBA (demographer)
The workshop is free (and catered)
Tuesday October 24th, 9:30am – 4:00pm
Woodward Conference Centre, University of Melbourne.
| | So Fi Zine #14
So Fi Zine publishes fiction, poetry and visual art inspired by social science.
Edition #14 will be published in late 2023.
Send your sociological fiction, poetry and visual art!
Submission deadline: October 31. | | | Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Marking 10 Years Since the End of Australian Car Manufacturing was Declared
A one-day research symposium, Adelaide, Thursday 15 February 2024
This one-day research symposium has been organised to mark 10 years since Australia’s last carmakers announced plans to close domestic manufacturing operations. By February 2014, all remaining carmakers had announced plans to end the domestic manufacture and assembly of passenger cars over the following 3-4 years. By October 2017, Australia’s car manufacturing industry had shut down completely.
Note, some funding is available to support the participation of Early-Career Researchers (ECRs), HDR students, low-income or unwaged researchers, or researchers from outside the academy, e.g., from industry, policymaking, or community organisations, including potential to subsidise travel and accommodation for participants travelling from outside Adelaide/South Australia.
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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. | | | TASA Admin (Sally): admin@tasa.org.au
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