| Dear ~~first_name~~,
Welcome to the first newsletter for 2023. It's a big year for TASA as the host of the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. We hope you can be a part of that event. It's possible that the Congress will help attract more viewers to TASA web and our searchable directories. As such, now may be a great time to review your membership profile and adjust your visibility settings so that our international colleagues can find you. There is an instructional video available to help you through the process here. Note, the section on adjusting your visibility settings starts at the 5:12 mark.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you, TASA and our discipline all the best for 2023:-)
| A warm congratulations to fellow member Stephanie Raymond whose thesis was recently officially, conferred; Raymond, Stephanie (2023). Melanotanning: A Sociological investigation of user experiences of the injectable tanning peptide (melanotan) in the context of identity, health and risk. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. Supervisors: Professor Alex Broom; Associate Professor Rebecca Olson and Dr Katherine Kenny.
| Postgraduate Sub-Committee 2023-2024:
Call for New Members | TASA’s Postgraduate Portfolio Leader, Richa George, is calling for expressions of interests to join TASA’s Postgraduate Sub-Committee (PGSC) for the 2023-2024 term. This PGSC supports the Postgraduate Portfolio Leader in representing and furthering the interests of TASA’s postgraduate members. The PGSC consists of a maximum of seven members who usually serve a two-year term and meet online approximately six times a year as well as face-to-face at the annual conference.
The deadline for nominations is January 27th. For the full details, read on...
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Ashleigh L Haw (2023). Asylum seekers in Australian news media: Mediated (in)humanity. London: Palgrave Macmillan | | This book sheds light on how the public engage with, make sense of, and discursively evaluate news media constructions of people from asylum seeking backgrounds. As a case study, the author discusses her recent research combining Critical Discourse Analysis with a cultural studies Audience Reception framework to examine the perspectives of 24 Western Australians who took part in semi-structured interviews. During their interviews, participants were asked open-ended questions about: their general views on people seeking asylum, including Australia’s policy responses, their media engagement habits and preferences, and their views concerning how the Australian media represents people seeking asylum. The author compares and contrasts this research with broader interdisciplinary discussion, and the book will therefore appeal to students and scholars of migration, political communication, sociology, audience reception, critical media studies and sociolinguistics. Read on... | | | Simon Prideaux, Mustapha Sheikh, Adam Formby (Eds.) Crime, Criminality and Injustice: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Revelations. Athem Press.
| The chapters in this volume present data and analysis that sheds light on the live experiences of those at the lowest intersections of injustice—Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, refugees, disabled people, youth, women, children and the poor. The contributors include eminent academics, students at all levels of study, practitioners within the field of social work, legal professionals and social justice activists. Gender, social exclusion, institutional discrimination, the intersectional nature of crimes and effects, (social) media influence and public perception are all key themes that figure in the volume. Read on... | | | |
Drabowicz, Tomasz and Tomasz Warczok (2023). Social classes and their boundaries during Poland’s "Golden Age", in: Cédric Hugrée, Étienne Penissat, Alexis Spire and Johs. Hjellbrekke (Eds.), Class Boundaries in Europe: The Bourdieusian Approach in Perspective. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 52-71. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003223863-5
| | Networks and Contested Identities in the Refugee Journey, (Eds.) Niro Kandasamy, Lauren Avery, Karen Soldatic., Social Inclusion 2022, Volume 10, Issue 4. The journal is available on open access here. | Akifeva, R., Fozdar, F., & Baldassar, L. (2023). Experiences of culture and cultural negotiations among Russian-speaking migrants: National habitus and cultural continuity dilemmas in child-rearing. Ethnicities. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968221149167
Li, Yao-Tai. “Taiwan and the WHO: Negotiating the Deconstruction of Racialized Discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic.” International Affairs 99(1): 321–336. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac313 [FULL ACCESS].
Nguyen-Trung, K. (2023), "Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-05-2022-0118
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A Journal of Sociology Special Section: Fields, Capitals, Habitus: What Next? A Review Symposium
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Ratnam, C., Keel, C., & Wickes, R. (2022). Linking with migrants: The potential of digitally mediated connections to build social capital during crisis. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833221145524
Jacinthe Flore, Renata Kokanović, Alex Broom, Sarah Heynemann, Julia Lai-Kwon, and Michael Jefford (2023) Entanglements and imagined futures: The subject(s) of precision in oncology. Social Science & Medicine 317: 115608. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115608.
Zheng, H. (2022). ‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times. International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779221144759.
Nishitani, M. and Lee, H 2022 ‘Fruit Picking and Farmwork as Racialised Stigma: The Children of Pacific Migrant Workers in Rural Australia’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2136631
| For tips from fellow members on getting published in The Conversation (TC), click here. For some members' articles published in TC between 2013 & 2019, click here. To find out what can happen after publishing in TC, click here.
| XX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Melbourne, Australia | June 25 - July 1, 2023
| TASA is offering several bursaries, see the below list, to assist members to attend the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in June this year. If you have had an abstract accepted for the Congress then you may be eligible to apply for one of the bursaries. Applications close on February 6th, 2023. Note, bursary recipients will be expected to attend the ISA 2023 World Congress, Melbourne, in person.
Note, the early bird registration for ISA 2023 closes on March 22nd.
| | The Jean Martin Award, a part of the legacy of the late Jean Martin (picture left), recognises excellence in scholarship in the field of Sociology and aims to assist with establishing the career of a recent PhD graduate. Excellence in scholarship in the field of sociology, and the balanced treatment of sociological theory and research are the main criteria for deciding the Award.
The current round is open to theses for which a PhD has been/is formally awarded between the period March 1st 2021 to 28 February 2023.
| | | | Honours Awards - Call for nominations
| TASA's Honours/Masters Student Award is given annually to the best Honours/Masters student in Sociology in each Australian university. The Award is:
- Determined by the convenor (or equivalent) of the Sociology Honours/Masters program in each university
- Available to Honours/Master students who have a) completed a sociology major, and b) had their Honours/Masters thesis supervised and/or examined by a recognised sociologist in the current year
- In recognition of receiving the best overall mark in Honours/Masters for that year
| ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and Transitions to Adulthood
Friday 23rd June 2023
Keynote speaker: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari) - pictured top right
Valentina Cuzzocrea is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Her expertise gravitates around youth issues. Her last work has appeared in ‘Higher Education’ (with Ewa Krzaklewska), ‘Scuola Democratica’ (with Fabio Bertoni and Giuliana Mandich), ‘Mobilities‘(with David Cairns) and ‘Journal of Youth Studies’. She has co-curated with Bjorn Schiermer and Ben Gook, ‘Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions: A Global Perspective’, Brill, 2021; ‘Youth Collectivities: Cultures and Objects’, Routledge, 2021, and, with Barbara G. Bello and Yuri Kazepov ‘Italian Youth in International Context’ (Routledge, 2020). She has been chair of the ESA RN 30 Youth and Generation.
Event blurb: Young people aged 18-30 represent the most mobile cohort across the globe. Much of this mobility is encouraged and facilitated by current migration, education and social policy, reflecting the widely accepted view that transnational mobility will provide youth with enhanced life chances and competitive job skills as they transition to adulthood, as well as benefit the community more broadly through an increasingly cosmopolitan and agile workforce. Yet these assumptions have been largely untested, and research and policy have remained narrowly national in focus. This symposium brings together leading and emerging scholars from around the world who are researching transnational youth mobility to share and consolidate findings on the impacts of mobility on young people’s transitions to adulthood with one another as well as with youth mobility stakeholders.
|  | Call for Abstracts
Young people’s ‘work’ is contested and debated: politicians discuss skills-shortages, training, higher education, and workforce patterns, while young people’s lived experiences of work are shaped by gender, class, location, race, ethnicity as well as the impact of intersecting crises. Young people’s ‘leisure time’ is now also commodified in new ways, with the rise of the social media influencer, the streamer, and the normalisation of ‘always on’ work conditions mediated through casual contracts, on-call arrangements, and gig platforms. At the same time, counter trends are emerging: at the macro level, industrial relations changes are proposing greater gig economy governance, while at the micro level, discussions of work-life balance are popularising around ‘the great resignation’, ‘quiet quitting’, and ‘digital detox’ narratives.
What are the key issues and challenges facing young people around work today? What opportunities are there for disrupting ways of working enabled by new technologies and social movements? This symposium will bring together cutting edge research to answer these questions.
| TASA Thursdays
Our TASA Thursdays events for 2022 have ended. We are very happy to report that we have locked in our first event for 2023, though!; 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights’ with panellists Raewyn Connell, Pam Nilan, Josh Roose, & Mario Peucker. Thursday 16 February, 2023, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT. Registrations details will be available soon.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 4 (December 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Matters of Time in Health & Illness
Issue 1, 2024 | |
This special issue will bring together papers exploring how time relates with and in health and illness. We encourage submissions that think with ‘time’ in many ways: as a heuristic device for exploring the sociological dimensions of how health and care unfold (in prolonged and fleeting ways); as a sociohistorical situating of health and care practices; as a way of measuring and constituting health experiences and events; and as a speculative orientation towards anticipated and imagined futures of health.
Guest Editors: Mia Harrison, Anthony K J Smith, and Sophie Adams.
| | | Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Issue 2, 2024 | |
Worldwide, it is estimated that approximately 30% of women have experienced violence (WHO 2021a) and that the prevalence of violence against women and girls increases significantly once broader social inequities are taken into account such as Indigeneity, disability, race and ethnicity, 2SLGBTIQ+ status, and age (WHO 2021b). Interaction with the healthcare system can provide an opportunity for a coordinated response to be enacted that provides critical care to women (Fitts et al., 2022). While there have been decades of advocacy for action to address the rates of violence against women, the breadth of minority and marginalised women’s experiences of accessing healthcare following violence are only gradually becoming known.
Guest Editors: Michelle Fitts and Karen Soldatic
| | | New: Assistant Professor - Sociology
Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Assistant Professor - Urban Inequality
University of Toronto
Applications close: TODAY 19th January. Read on...
Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for 2023-24 and 2024-25.
The Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS) at the University of Tokyo
For details, including application instructions, salary and housing arrangements, and further information, please see the position description. Applications are due 1 February 2023. Enquiries should be directed to kate.dariansmith@utas.edu.au
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Tasmania
Working with fellow member Catherine Robinson
Application deadline: 22nd January. 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 project that complements an Australian Research Council funded study on Informal Sport, Urban Diversity and Social Resilience.
The research is led by fellow members Amanda Wise (MQ) and Kristine Aquino (UTS) et al. under whose supervision the successful candidate will work.
| | 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. | | | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | Election of the ISA Executive Committee 2023-2027
| New: The International Sociological Association (ISA) are seeking nominations from National Associations for their 2023-2027 Executive Committee. Candidates must have been ISA individual members in good standing since the previous World Congress and must still be so at the time when the Nominating Committees finalise their list. Nominations must be supported by two individual ISA members in good standing, or delegates to the Council of National Associations from associations in good standing, and including evidence of the candidate’s consent.
| | New: Calling Australian folks who are non-binary, genderqueer, agender, or anything between / beyond the binary of man or woman. Please consider participating in a study conducted by a non-binary research team (Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark and Eden Dowers) for a 1-2 hour interview on identity, society and gender.
$50 reimbursement
| | | Call for Papers - Journal
| Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction," edited by Matthew DelSesto (Boston College) and Stephen Pfohl (Boston College).
This thematic issue explores the growing interest in ecological sustainability policies, programs and practices related to the criminal justice system. Contributions should highlight how these approaches are reducing recidivism, facilitating prisoner resettlement, or supporting social inclusion.
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2023 | Deadline for Articles: 31 July 2023. For full details, read on... | | New: Western Sydney University are proud to announce that they are hosting the 2023 Queer Displacements Conference – the second Asia-Pacific conference to cover LGBTIQ+ asylum and migration!
22-23 February 2023 | Western Sydney University (Parramatta City campus).
The Queer Displacements is the first and only conference in the Asia Pacific designed to comprehensibly foreground protection and settlement challenges of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) forcibly displaced people. It is created to champion the voices and the lived experience of LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced people. The Queer Displacements conference is the space for awareness raising, solidarity, building alliances and engaging the whole of society in ensuring justice, protection and solutions for LGBTIQ+ people in forced displacement.
Register to attend today. Spaces are limited. Register here. | | | New: World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
New: World Convention
(In)Justice International
Finland March 28-31
Religion in Modern Education: Conflict, Policy and Practices
The Australian National University
13-15 April 2023, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Abstract Deadline: 14 February 2023. Read on...
Unsettling Certainties
Society for the History of Emotions' Fourth Biennial Conference
University of Adelaide over 28 November to 1 December 2023
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