TASA
@AustSoc
Followers
6K
Following
497
Media
3K
Statuses
30K
Promoting Sociology in Australia & beyond. RT & media posted may not reflect our views. Also on Bluesky https://t.co/G4JUysCsri
Australia
Joined February 2011
ICYMI: TASA member Jessie Liu was the winner of our 2025 biennial Jean Martin Award for her PhD thesis - Liu J (2024) Formulas of Chineseness: Tracing Daigou Between Australia and China. PhD Thesis. Australian National University, Canberra. Available at: https://t.co/eEM9HiwSS9
0
0
2
Recent open access article by TASA members Kiran Pienaar & Brady Robards et al.: Media reporting of cancel culture: a narrative anatomy of Billie Eilishโs cancellation https://t.co/Sfg6ug1Ks5
tandfonline.com
Definitions of cancel culture are contested; its meanings and effects are understood in often polarised ways as either an empowering tool for social justice or a dangerous demonising trend. Social ...
0
0
1
Recent open access article by TASA member Peta S Cook et al.: โI am Trying so Hard to Smileโ: Ableism and Feeling Rules When Living with Traumatic Brain Injury https://t.co/NQ6czKtjoj
https://t.co/NQ6czKtjoj
0
1
1
New article by TASA member Habib Moghimi et al.: Sociological film: blending filmic and sociological imaginations https://t.co/3dzVkivetR
journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines how sociology can think cinematically through the creation of sociological film, achieved by blending sociological and filmic imaginations. ...
0
1
3
New #book #chapter by TASA members Alan Petersen & Kiran Pienaar: An agenda for research on the biopolitics of testing in healthcare https://t.co/VThJWHMPsl
elgaronline.com
Testing in healthcare is usually undertaken for purposes of diagnosis, risk assessment or disease monitoring, and it is generally viewed as the first step to medical intervention and/or lifestyle...
0
0
1
Recent article by TASA member James Gardiner et al.: Supporting LGBTQ+ young people on social media in times of heightened visibility: challenges, opportunities, strategies https://t.co/BRF1zckwbv
tandfonline.com
This article explores how LGBTQ+ young people, service providers, and influential LGBTQ+ peers navigate social media visibility in the contemporary political and media climate. Framed by intense po...
0
0
0
New open access article by TASA members Peta Cook, Ryan Thorneycroft & Karen Soldatic et al.: Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education https://t.co/eCvq0GMFeH
tandfonline.com
Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...
0
1
2
New #book by fellow member Raewyn Connell: Trans Lives: Social Realities across the Globe https://t.co/BXjrmSHI80
politybooks.com
Trans Lives, In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups...
0
0
1
Join us on 19th Feb for this months ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ง๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฆ session titled: ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ด๐๐ป๐: ๐๐
๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ณ๐น๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฝ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ Register here: https://t.co/btz1W3dyBd
0
1
2
Recent open access article by TASA member Alexandra Ridgway: Leveraging expat bubbles: Migrant womenโs information-gathering practices within Hong Kong spaces of expatriate privilege from arrival to post-divorce https://t.co/d8DOWotauy
https://t.co/d8DOWotauy
journals.sagepub.com
In Hong Kongโs bustling metropolis, expatriate (โexpatโ) bubbles operate as privileged social enclaves, offering their members fruitful access to information, s...
0
1
1
Recent open access article by TASA member Alan Morris et al.: Assisted Self-Governance: The CASS Model of Volunteering among Older Immigrants https://t.co/Ph4gFZciUn
https://t.co/1XEZLt3tkj
journals.sagepub.com
In Australia's multicultural ageing context, older immigrantsโ community participation is shaped by institutional arrangements that value inclusion yet str...
0
0
1
๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ: ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ & ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป - ๐๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ก๐ผ๐ ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป How can we read resistance and revolution expansively, productively and generatively in pursuit of a better world? Submit an abstract here: https://t.co/4BR2c2nBXf
#TAS
0
1
2
Call for Papers: TASA 2026 Resistance & Revolution How do we understand social change beyond protest, rupture, and spectacle? What does resistance look like in everyday life, institutions, technologies, and places? https://t.co/4BR2c2nBXf
#TASA2026 #ResistanceAndRevolution
0
0
2
New HSR open access article by TASA member Caragh Brosnan et al.: โThen we forget to sit on our handsโ: how epistemic injustice impedes midwivesโ and studentsโ capacities to humanize birth https://t.co/87uZmgWR0a
tandfonline.com
The ubiquity of negative childbirth experiences, and their repercussions, are gaining increased global attention. โHumanizing birthโ principles, developed by social science and midwifery scholars, ...
0
1
2
New #book chapter by TASA member Asrafi Bintay Akram et al.: Menstrual Justice Reimagined: Contextualizing Solutions Through A New Lens for South Asia https://t.co/DxWfJZ3Y9r
https://t.co/DxWfJZ3Y9r
link.springer.com
Margaret E. Johnsonโs concept of menstrual justice is relatively more applicable, mainly through her use of structural intersectionality, where she delves into advocating for menstrual justice....
0
0
0
New open access article by TASA member Leonard D'Cruz: What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe https://t.co/ltkmkEQEez
https://t.co/ltkmkEQEez
journals.sagepub.com
Achille Mbembe presents โnecropoliticsโ as a corrective to Foucaultโs conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contempo...
0
0
3
New open access article by TASA member Rose Butler et al.: Migration, class and the intergenerational self in contemporary Australia: Exploring family legacies https://t.co/wMkyk9bjLU
https://t.co/wMkyk9bjLU
journals.sagepub.com
Recent sociological scholarship in the United Kingdom deploys the concept of the โintergenerational selfโ to think about class misidentification in the context ...
0
0
2
ICYMI: #PhD #Scholarship Edith Cowan Uni with fellow member Catriona Stevens. Older adult abuse & migration Apply by Feb 28. For details, visit https://t.co/ZOGsQQ5zMf
ecu.edu.au
Edith Cowan University invites applications for a PhD scholarship within the School of Arts and Humanities' Research Program in Migration, Diversity and Care. This dynamic research program brings...
0
0
1
New #book by fellow member Carl Anacin: Transnational Labour Migration and Musical Performance: Filipino Musicians in Australia https://t.co/YXASr5Dls7
link.springer.com
0
1
4
#PhD #Scholarship Edith Cowan University ARC DECRA - Elder abuse and migration The study will suit an excellent bi- or multi-lingual student Applications close 28 February For details, visit https://t.co/ZOGsQQ5zMf
ecu.edu.au
Edith Cowan University invites applications for a PhD scholarship within the School of Arts and Humanities' Research Program in Migration, Diversity and Care. This dynamic research program brings...
0
0
0