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| Alan Petersen (2024) Pandemic Societies: A Critical Public Health Perspective. Bristol University Press. | From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often similar.
This important book explores the dimensions, dynamics and implications of emerging pandemic societies. Drawing on ideas from sociology and science and technology studies, it sheds new light on how pandemics are socially produced and, in turn, shape societies in areas such as governance, work and recreation, science and technology, education, and family life. It offers pointers to the future of pandemic societies, including the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, as well as the prospects of social renewal created by economic and social disruption. Read on...
| | | Garth Stahl; Ben Adams; Melanie Baak and Samantha Schulz (2024) Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling: Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk. Rowman & Littlefield.
|  | | Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling: Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk documents and analyzes efforts by educational policymakers to combat susceptibility to extremism within disadvantaged communities. Schools worldwide are increasingly enlisted in the efforts of nation-states to prevent or counter violent extremism. However, since extremism is a notoriously complex and difficult concept to define, attempts to counter violent extremism are inevitably entangled in issues of political and social power. Through the lens of affective governance—which refers to a style of governing emphasizing the emotional and psychological needs of citizens, as well as their sense of connection and belonging to their community—this book draws attention to how policy enactment can be closely aligned with government agendas revolving around the management of risk. The authors argue that extremism is closely tied to systemic marginalization and, while efforts to combat a susceptibility to extremism are important, so is a continual critique of such efforts. Read on... | | | McLeod Kim, Fullagar Simone (Eds). 2024. Progressing Critical Posthuman Perspectives in Health Sociology. Routledge, United Kingdom. | This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions. It explores a range of posthuman dilemmas across diverse health issues as contributors grapple with the ethical, ontological and epistemological relations of knowing and doing health.
The volume problematizes the rational, agentic individual as the key driver of health-related action and experience. Contributors move beyond long-held humanist assumptions about health, illness, and well-being and attune – theoretically and methodologically - to the entangled relations or ecologies that instantiate realities. They reimagine how care practices and healthcare experiences materialise through human-non-human relationality as biosocial environments. Chapters explore and articulate the agency of more-than-human entities in health-related processes to shed new light on health interventions, evaluations, and health policy. Read on... | | | McLeod, K., & Fullagar, S. (2024). Introduction – Remaking the post ‘human’: A productive problem for health sociology. In K. McLeod & S. Fullagar (Eds.), Progressing Critical Posthuman Perspectives in Health Sociology. Routledge.
Pienaar, K., Flore, J., Power, J., & Murphy, D. (2024). Making publics in a pandemic: Posthuman relationalities, ‘viral' intimacies and COVID-19. In K. McLeod & S. Fullagar (Eds.), Progressing Critical Posthuman Perspectives in Health Sociology. Routledge.
McCallum, T., & Rose, J. (2024). Domestic violence, coercive control and mental health in a pandemic: Disenthralling the ecology of the domestic. In K. McLeod & S. Fullagar (Eds.), Progressing Critical Posthuman Perspectives in Health Sociology. Routledge.
All of the above book chapters are available here. | Opozda, M. J., Bonson, J., Vigona, J., Aanundsen, D., Paradisis, C., Anderson, P., Garth Stahl & Jacob Prehn et al. (2024). Navigating the cultural adaptation of a US-based online mental health and social support program for use with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in the Northern Territory, Australia: Processes, outcomes, and lessons. International journal for equity in health, 23(1), 165. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-024-02253-w [OPEN ACCESS].
Stahl, G., Adams, B., & Oberg, G. (2024). Understanding the Role of Masculinity through the Perspectives of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Intervention Practitioners Engaged in Men’s (de) Radicalization. Gender Issues, 41(4), 19. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12147-024-09338-4 [OPEN ACCESS].
Stahl, G. D., & Nguyen, T. P. (2024). Adaptation, change and reaffirmation: investigating the limits of young working-class men adapting to elite higher education institutions. Research Papers in Education, 1-21. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02671522.2024.2394045 [OPEN ACCESS]. | |
Ricki's final interview as part of the Sociology of Media Voices Series.
| Co-Convener Found!
Matshepo Molala & Dani Nembhard, current conveners of the Environment & Society thematic group, are happy to announce that fellow member Jai Cooper has volunteered to join them as a co-convener.
| Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Special Issue
Health Sociology Review, Volume 33, Issue 2 (2024)
To access all articles of the special issue, read on...
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New: Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow
ARC Discovery Project “Mapping Australian Homemade, Amateur & Do-it-Yourself Cultural Economies”
As the Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow you will be embedded within a creative and cutting-edge social research program. Based with the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney, you will work with an interdisciplinary team of academic investigators on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project “Mapping Australian Homemade, Amateur & Do-it-Yourself Cultural Economies”. This role is a Level A position, 2 years fixed term – part time.
Research Officer
Monash Rural Health - Mildura
Part-time, fraction (0.4), 3-year fixed-term appointment, Pro-rata of $78,255 - $89,888 pa HEW Level 05 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
Working on studies of people who use illicit drugs (see https://www.monash.edu/medicine/rural-health/research/projects/mixmax). This is a great opportunity to be involved in a large-scale research project with an internationally renowned team. The Research Officer will be engaged in diverse tasks including scheduling bookings, conducting interviews using computerized data collection forms and performing clinical testing such as venous blood samples and spirometry tests. Training for all study tasks (including collecting blood and doing spirometry), will be provided.
Enquiries to Associate Professor Bernadette Ward, +61 3 5440 9064 / 0427059205. Bernadette.ward@monash.edu
Lecturer, Science and Society
James Cook University, Townsville
JCU are particularly seeking applicants with the ability to teach sociology subjects!
Postdoctoral Research Fellow/ Research Fellow in Sociology
University of Sydney
Work with fellow member Michelle Peterie and the team at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies
Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies is currently looking for a full-time Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow, who will contribute to various research projects and activities carried out by the Centre, with a specific focus on advancing knowledge and understanding on technology, gender, and youth.
For details, read on...
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Hong Kong Baptist University
Review of applications is ongoing until the position is filled.
Casual Research Assistant – Indigenising the Curriculum
University of Queensland
This is a casual position (approximately 1 day per week x 14 weeks) commencing in early September to early December, at HEW 6.3. The following flexible employment options may be available for this role: Part time/job share; some working from home; variable start or finish times; compressed hours.
If you would like to discuss this role, you can contact fellow member Rebecca Olson.
| Young People & Disasters
Victoria University's Youth and Community Research Group & Youth Affairs Council Victoria
The PhD research must focus on disasters in Australian context but can target specific aspects of young people's experience.
Work with fellow member Fiona McDonald
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Two scholarships available
University of Melbourne
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: So Fi Zine is once again open for your submissions of sociological flash fiction, poetry and visual art. Get these in by October 31 for consideration for edition #16.
| New: 'Screen time anxieties: Changing the conversation around kids and tech'
Tuesday October 22nd
ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne
Panel members include Dr Billy Garvey from Guiding Growing Minds, Derek McCormack from Raising Children Network and Fiona Holder from Playgroup Victoria.
| | On Paul Ricoeur’s Lectures on Imagination: Jean-Luc Amalric, Saulius Geniusas, and George H. Taylor in Discussion
23rd Oct: New York 7pm | Chicago 6pm
24th Oct: Hong Kong 7am | Melbourne 10am | Paris 1am.
You can access the event here. | | | Calling all teachers! 👨🏫
Do you use the National Museum’s Digital Classroom website? If so, the National Museum of Australia would love your thoughts!
They want to learn how you use digital resources in your teaching, what types of resources you prefer, and what you want to see from a resource like theirs, in the future.
You can take their 10 minute survey here.
| | | The Future of Virtue Ethics: Strengthening Foundations and Exploring Applications
Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, University of Notre Dame
Call for 2025-26 Fellows
| Civilizational Populism: National and International Challenges
European Centre for Populism Studies
May 21-23, 2025 / Warsaw, Poland
Abstract submission deadline: 15 October .Read on...
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ISA Forum of Sociology
The 5th ISA Forum of Sociology will be an on-site event only, and we look forward to welcoming you onsite in Morocco!
Submission deadline: October 15. Read on...
Organizational Accidents: The Impact of Fragmentation and Uncertainty on Professional Life in High Risk Contexts
ISA Forum of Sociology
Rabat, Morocco, July 6-11, 2025
Submission deadline: October 15. Read on...
| Sorrento Creative Writing Prize
The Prize celebrates the annual Sorrento Writers Festival and its mission to bring writers and readers together. The winner will receive $5,000 and their writing featured at the 2025 Sorrento Writers Festival and at www.writing.org.au.
| Routledge Studies in Gender and the Criminal Legal System
Edited by fellow member Annette Bromdal et al.
This exciting new book series has been established to create and enable a body of research that will inform debates and policy surrounding gender within and around the criminal legal system.
| Special Issues - Call for Submissions
| Aging Out of Out-of-Home Care: New services, sustaining support and tackling system failures
Call for Papers in Child and Family Social Work
Guest Editors: fellow members Joel McGregor, Ben Lohmeyer, and colleague Alhassan Abdullah
The age at which young people age out of care, and the support offered to them post-care, varies significantly across state, national and international boundaries. Yet, there is an international momentum for extending the age of young people exiting care including in multiple states of Australia, the USA and the UK. In response to the global movements to extend care for young people in out-of-home care into their early 20s, this special issue aims to instigate an international foundation for a new research and practice agenda for improving young people’s transition out of out-of-home care and their journey towards independent living.
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2025. Read on...
Incarceration and health
Scientific Reports
Original research into incarceration and health, including studies on the health of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families and healthcare within correctional facilities are welcome.
Guest editors include fellow member Annette Bromdal.
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