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With TASA 2024 just around the corner, we’re excited to share the official Book of Abstracts and Conference Handbook. These resources offer a first look at the wide array of presentations, workshops, and discussions set to explore some of sociology’s most pressing topics.
This newsletter issue includes new publications from members, upcoming events, and calls for abstracts—plenty of opportunities for engaging, learning, and contributing to our ever-growing community of sociologists:-)
| | Join us on Thursday 14th November, 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEDT), as fellow member Fran Collyer facilitates a heartfelt memorial webinar honoring the life and legacy of Lois Bryson, a distinguished Australian sociologist whose contributions have profoundly shaped the field of sociological research in Australia.
This webinar is a unique opportunity to celebrate Lois's remarkable contributions and the indelible mark she has left on the field of sociology. We invite you to join us in commemorating her extraordinary life and work.
| | | Ushaw, M., & Burns, E. A. (2024). A review of "Farming inside invisible worlds: Modernist agriculture and its consequences". Campbell, H.(2021). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.47
| Ahsan Habib, Md Sayed Uddin, Jalihah Md Shah, Agrarian transformation and rural community food security in the lower Gangetic basin: A household survey dataset, Data in Brief, Volume 57, 2024, 111014, ISSN 2352-3409,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111014.
Cho, H. E. (2024). Filling the gaps: grassroots prevention of domestic and family violence within the Korean-Australian community. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (published online ahead of print 2024). 1-21 from https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2024D000000050
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For the full details, and to register for the Journal of Sociology Special Issue launch, read on...
| ‘Healthy’ Food Practices: Going beyond Structure versus Agency - call for abstracts
| | A 2026 Health Sociology Review Special Issue Guest edited by fellow member Natalie Jovanovski and, colleague, Bhavna Middha. |  | | Natalie Jovanovski, RMIT University |  | | Bhavna Middha, RMIT University | | |
Our interactions with food are critical to physical health, psychological health, social health, spiritual health, environmental health, among many others. How we grow food, produce and manufacture it, how it is provisioned, and how we consume and digest it, celebrate and mourn over it, play with and feel anxious about it, as well as discard it, indicates complex relationships between self and society. Despite being inextricably connected, most discussions about food within sociology are siloed, focusing either on the structural factors that shape our food practices, or our personal choices and their consequences. This has limited how we understand the role of food practices – or the bridging of or going beyond structure and agency – in shaping people’s health and wellbeing.
This special issue advances a holistic focus on food in health sociology, using a theoretical lens that goes beyond structure versus agency in explaining food practices.
Abstract submission deadline: 23rd November. Read on... | 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...
| | You are invited to join the Generations and Housing 'hybrid' symposium
Monday November 25th, Perth and online.
‘Wicked problems’ are social issues that are difficult to define, challenging to resolve, and highly contested (Rittel and Webber, 1973). Housing in Australia has become a ‘wicked problem’ with multiple layers.
For the full details of the event, and to register, Read on...
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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...
| 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
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Institutional Gaslighting: An interdisciplinary workshop
20-21 February 2025 (in-person only)
Macquarie University, Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre
Keynote speaker: Prof. Davina Cooper, King’s College London
Gaslighting is usually understood as a form of interpersonal abuse in which a perpetrator manipulates the victim’s own sense of experience by implying that they are overreacting, misinterpreting events, or being overly sensitive. Thinking about the relationship between processes and dynamics of gaslighting and broader structures of inequality therefore invites us to consider how gaslighting operates beyond the interpersonal level. This workshop aims to consider the role of institutions and institutional processes in gaslighting individuals and groups from an interdisciplinary perspective, including but not limited to philosophy, social sciences, cultural studies, and law. Welcomed are theoretical, empirical, and conceptual contributions from scholars who have worked on gaslighting before or are interested in considering their work through the lens of gaslighting.
Abstract submission deadline: 18 November. Read on...
| What it means to be free
On the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Annual lecture by Sisonke Msimang
Friday, November 15, 6 - 7pm, AWST
WA State Library
| The Academic Balancing Act: Unpacking the Dynamics of Workload Pressure and Burnout
SHAPE Futures
28th November 2024, 1pm - 5pm, AWST.
For the full details, see the image below and Read on...
| | New: Vulnerability, extremism, and schooling: Restorative practices, policy enactment, and managing risk
by fellow members Garth Stahl & Sam Schulz with colleagues Ben Adams & Mel Baak
The Howling Owl ‘Monocle Room’ , 10 Vaughan Pl, Adelaide (just off Rundle)
Thursday 14th November from 5pm (AEDT)
| | | | Josephine Browne & Zoei Sutton (2024) Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Change.
Online
TOMORROW Friday November 1st, 6:30pm - 8pm AEDT
| | | Towards Refugee Belonging in Australia and Scotland
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, The University of Sydney
TODAY Thursday, October 31, 12:30 - 2:30pm AEDT
The University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus (zoom option available)
Chair by fellow member Alex Broom
‘Youth belonging: Rethinking transitions, integration & placemaking in a mobile world’
La Trobe University Agnes Heller Lecture 2024
Speaker: fellow member Anita Harris
Monday November 11, 9:30 am - 11:00am (AEDT)
| Working to End Racial Oppression International Conference
University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand, 9th-12th February 2025
Keynote speakers include Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Ruha Benjamin, Michelle Johnson-Jennings, Jeffrey Ansloos, Donna Cormack, Nate Rew.
Abstract submission deadline: TODAY October 31st, 2024. Read on...
| Accessible Feedback in Academic Research
University of Greenwich
This is a global research initiative that aims to transform feedback practices in academia. The research team are working in collaboration with the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training; a community of over 1,000 academics worldwide advocating for transparency, rigour, and inclusivity in research. This project addresses longstanding challenges with traditional peer-review processes and other well-established feedback mechanisms in academic research.
According to the researchers, this is a unique opportunity to contribute to a global conversation and make a real difference in the academic community.
You can access the survey here. | Resources on dialogue, deliberation and public engagement
The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
| 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.
| Birth, breastfeeding, and beyond: Feminist research on the family
Deakin University's Sociology and Social Change Collective
Monday, 18th November, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM AEDT
This is an interdisciplinary online seminar discussing feminist research on the family with a focus on maternal experiences and representations.
| CHASS Future Leaders
The CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize aims to recognise and reward young Australian writers (35 and under). The theme for 2024 is 'open'. The winner will receive $2000. Please email your submissions to helen@futureleaders.com.au by the extended deadline of November 30th, 2024 and cc CHASS Admin (membership@chass.org.au).
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
| New: "Enduring" Indigenous Voices and Perspectives Amidst Ongoing Structures of Colonialism.
Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Calling for contributions of original research articles, reviews of works (films, books, music, art exhibits), creative pieces (stories, poems) that explore the struggles for justice expressed in the lived experiences, knowledge systems, and cultural practices of indigenous communities across the globe.
Abstract submission deadline: November 30. Read on...
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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The November 2024 - November 2026 Executive Team can be viewed on TASAweb here.
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