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In case you have missed it, the submission deadline for Panel Proposals (and panel abstracts) is this coming Monday May 13. If you have any questions, please email Penny (events@tasa.org.au). For TASA2024 details, read on...
Before our big TASA2024 event, we have several other events planned including next week's TASA Thursdays event, May 16th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST, facilitated by TASA Secretary Kay Cook. Fellow members, Sharyn Roach Anleu and George Sarantoulias will be speaking on "Complex data and simple instructions: Social regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic." The registration details are below:
| | Join us on Thursday 16th May, for this month's TASA Thursday session which will be presented by guest speakers, and fellow members, Sharyn Roach Anleu and George Sarantoulias. This session is titled "Complex data and simple instructions: Social regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic."
Event Details:
Date: Thursday 16th May
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary
| | | Andrew Hickey. 2024. Comfort and Contemporary Culture: The problems of the ‘good life’ on an increasingly uncomfortable planet. Routledge. | To be comfortable stands as an aspiration of the times; to be comfortable defines what it means to live ‘the good life’. We talk about such things as maintaining a comfortable home, a comfortable lifestyle and a comfortable retirement. We seek out comforts in the relationships we sustain, the leisure practices we enact and the possessions we accumulate.
But by consuming comfort in the ways that we do, we do ourselves harm and limit our only planet of its capacity to provide for the requirements of life. This is a world that grows ever more uncomfortable because of comfort and when linked to consumption and excess, indulgence and apathy, it occurs that comfort carries effects that hold existential consequence.
Utilising analyses of popular culture and ethnographic accounts of everyday life, Comfort and Contemporary Culture works through case studies of comfort’s enactment to pose questions around what it means to live, now. Read on... | | | Nguyen-Trung, K. (2024). The Power of Qualitative Research: Cultivating Autoethnography for Personal Awakening, Humanity, and Transformation. The Qualitative Report, 29(5), 1334-1345. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.6543 [OPEN ACCESS]
Khan, C. (2024) Unburdening care: Exploring modes of care through post-productivist thought and Australian parliamentary inquiry representations. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 00, 1–17. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.335 [OPEN ACCESS]
Li, Yao-Tai. 2024. “‘Black Self-serve’: The Depreciation of Blackness and Perception of Racial Hierarchy among Taiwanese Netizens.” Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2346542 [OPEN ACCESS]
Pitroso, G. (2024). The Catalan Digital Republic. A Theoretical Review. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 23(1), 21–51. https://doi.org/10.53779/QMBB2588
| van Toorn, G (2024). United against algorithms: a primer on disability-led struggles against algorithmic injustice. Sydney: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, University of New South Wales, and Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University. https://doi.org/10.60836/aweg-0922.
| Reimagining Menopause
Limited space is available, so please register ASAP if you would like to join in person
Friday, May 31 2024, 12:30-4:30pm AEST
UNSW Paddington, Cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road Paddington, NSW 2052
| MusicLIVES Symposium, Brisbane, 26 June
The Sociology of Music thematic group invites TASA members to the MusicLIVES Symposium, at The Tivoli theatre in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, on Wednesday 26th June, 9am-5pm. MusicLIVES will showcase the work of SoM members and bring together academic, music industry and policy stakeholders, with focus sessions on ‘Sociology of music today’ and ‘Crisis and reinvention for live music in Australia’.
MusicLIVES is presented by the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, with support from TASA thematic group event funding. Further details and registration on the SoM webpage (expand Members’ News).
| | | The nomination deadline for the below 2024 TASA Awards is July 17th:
Note, applications for TASA2024 bursaries will open on Monday July 22nd and close on Monday August 19th.
| New: Assistant Social Researcher
BPA Analytics, Brisbane QLD
Application deadline: May 13th. Read on...
New: Research Manager
Orygen, Parkville, Melbourne VIC
Application deadline: May 22. Read on...
New: Research Analyst - Evaluation & Statistics Clerk Grade 7/8
Department of Communities and Justice
Haymarket, Sydney NSW
Application deadline: May 29th. 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.
| | | PhD Scholarship - Music making in Australia
Applications are invited for enrolment in a scholarship-supported doctoral study associated with an Australian Research Council Discovery project that explores digital music making in regional Australia. The PhD project topic is deliberately open to allow candidates to develop their own specific ideas and interests drawing on their existing skills and experience, subject to negotiation with supervisors. However, in order to align with the overall project, topics that focus on areas such as the following are particularly welcome:
• Music making in regional Australia
• The intersections of grassroots music making and government policy and infrastructure in urban or regional settings
• Musicians’ utilisation of ‘maker spaces’
• Social inequalities in digital music making.
The successful applicant will supervised by three of the Chief Investigators on the ARC project (all TASA members), Associate Professor Catherine Strong (RMIT), Professor Andy Bennett (Griffith) and Dr Ben Green (Griffith).
Please contact Catherine Strong for more information (catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au)
| | 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 | So Fi Zine #15
Sociological fiction, poetry and visual art
| Thinking with Drugs, Interventions in the social
International workshop, 22–23 July
Goldsmiths, University of London
Abstract submission deadline: TOMORROW 10th of May. Read on...
Conservative Public History
With speaker fellow member Neville Buch presenting on Buckley in Australia: Considering Local Social Discourses among the Australian States (1938-1987)
June 20, 10am - 6pm
| Call for Submissions - Journals
| New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis
Social Movement Studies
This special issue would like to go beyond discussions of “old” and “new” movements, popular during the 1990s, and instead emphasise the usefulness of using social movement and collective action theories for analysing the development, strategies, and consequences of labour movements — in short, to bring the labour movement back to social movements studies.
Abstract proposal deadline: June 1, 2024. Read on...
Special Themed Collection: Gender and Work Emerging Issues
Economic and Labour Relations Review
The purpose of this call for papers is to assemble a stock take, assessing progress towards gender equality in work, paid and unpaid, formal and informal.
Special issue focussed on Culturally Responsive Qualitative Health Research
Qualitative Health Research
Anticipated publication of Special Issue: March 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 1. Read on....
| New: Global Conference on Migration and Health Equity
16-18 October, Rydges World Square, Sydney
Submission deadline: June 10. Read on...
Social Science Methodology Conference
Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
November 27-29, 2024, in-person at the University of Sydney
Abstract submission deadline: September 20
Epidemics and transmissible disease. Scourges throughout History.
The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies (TMA for HSES) and the Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development (TWC for SRD)
December 3, 4, 5 / 2024 (Beja - Tunisia).
| WA Migration and Mobilities Update conference
Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley campus, Perth WA.
Wednesday 25 September
Full program and registration details to follow.
Social Sciences Week 2024
9-15 September 2024
SSW2024 promises to be even more fun, insightful and intelligent than ever before. So mark your calendars, spread the word and get ready for a week of activities.
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