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Book Review: Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants: Making and Unmaking Boundaries by Xinyu (Andy) Zhao Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Abdul Aziz
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Tasmanian forests and their people: Self-narrative, forests and temporalities Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Rebecca Banham
This paper explores the role of forests in the formation and maintenance of self-identity, drawing on the experiences of 27 people from Tasmania, Australia. Specifically, I argue that forest experiences play an important role shaping some people's ‘self-narrative’ – the biography of their personal experience of the familiar past and anticipated future – framed through three temporal forms: ‘personal’
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Tracing the limits of epistemic agency in truth-telling about Australian settler colonialism Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Priya Kunjan
The Australian state and much of the settler polity maintain an unresolved contradiction between fully acknowledging Indigenous people and upholding a system predicated on the assumption of their socio-political inferiority. This tension inflects a public sphere in which Indigenous people frequently deploy truth-telling as an epistemic strategy, albeit one that involves a balance between challenging
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Reflections on decolonizing truth-telling in the writing of Behrouz Boochani Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Karen Berger
This article investigates former asylum seeker, Kurdish-Iranian Behrouz Boochani's efforts to decolonize truth-telling, especially in his prize-winning novel, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, in which he theorizes direct links between the colonization of Indigenous Australians and Australia's treatment of refugees. No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison both has
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The ‘dead’ as agents of truth-telling: Lessons from Timor-Leste and the Indigenous repatriation movement Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Lia Kent, Steve Hemming, Daryle Rigney, Cressida Fforde
Truth-telling, as it is understood within the liberal discourse and practice of transitional justice, centres around the idea of an individual human subject telling a narrative of harms that occurred in a past that is assumed now to be ‘past’. The ‘dead’ are important insofar as they provide ‘evidence’ of the suffering experienced by the living: the objects rather than subjects of truth-telling. This
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Coloniality and decoloniality in ‘comfort women’ memory activism: Transnational and transgenerational truth-telling practices in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Jae-Eun Noh
This article explores the truth-telling practices of ‘comfort women’ memory activism through the lens of coloniality and decoloniality. It examines how the colonial legacy has silenced and marginalised the voice of survivors and activists in their past and ongoing pursuit of truth and justice. This study discusses the transnational and transgenerational aspects of truth-telling practices with a focus
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Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Ricky Emmerton, Kristi Giselsson
This article discusses the potential of Indigenous art as epistemic decolonial truth-telling regarding any future possibility of transitional justice. When practised in a manner that is attentive to Indigenous knowledges and methodologies, works of art can engage audience members with sensual and symbolic forms that elicit reflection, understanding, engagement and conversations complementing written
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Reckonings with truth: Sovereign truths on Country Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Vanessa Barolsky
This article analyses grassroots truth-telling in Australia, in the light of the 2017 Uluru Statement's call for a Makarrata Commission to oversee truth-telling and treaty. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have long called for truth-telling about the colonial past. Numerous community projects have emerged to engage with these historical truths. However, few of these initiatives have
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Historical education and colonial racist violences: A contribution to debates on historic reparations for Black, Afro-descendant people in Colombia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Alejandra Londoño Bustamante
Racist violence has deep colonial roots that affect all aspects of life and the repertoires of violences in contexts such as the Colombian contemporary war. In this article, I will construct a woven web at three moments. Through this, I argue that teaching history from historical consciousness in settings such as schools can contribute to necessary social dialogues for processes of historical reparation
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Decolonising consciousness: Confronting and living with colonial truths in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Abraham Bradfield
National and state/territory dialogues in Australia have increasingly turned towards implementing mechanisms that will oversee truth-telling processes to facilitate reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. While truth lies central to decolonising, it is vital to reflect on whose truth(s) are being represented, and in what ways it should be disseminated. In this article I discuss
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Reckoning with truth globally: Decolonial possibilities Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Vanessa Barolsky, Laura Rodriguez Castro, Yin Paradies
This Special Issue interrogates the limitations and possibilities of truth within global efforts to address historical injustice. Over the past 30 years truth commissions have become ubiquitous in response to authoritarian regimes and colonial legacies. However, their ability to facilitate meaningful transformation is increasingly contested. In this editorial we explore what a decolonial reckoning
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Do-it-yourself lifestyle movements in grassroots activist communities: A case study of Brisbane, Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Elise Imray Papineau, Andy Bennett
In this article, we draw on the concepts of lifestyle movements and Do-It-Yourself culture to explore activist identity and practice among grassroots activist groups in Brisbane, Australia. Although Do-It-Yourself ethos is often conceptualised in terms of countercultural ideology linking music, politics and aesthetics, we examine it here as a core characteristic of creative resistance and grassroots
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Book Review: The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class – Special COVID-19 Edition by Guy Standing Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Mrittika Dreesha
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Book Review: Digital Migration by Koen Leurs Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Shashini Gamage
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Book Review: Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources by Louise Ryan Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Raelene Wilding
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‘This is NOT human services’: Counter-mapping automated decision-making in social services in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Lyndal Sleep
This paper offers a counter-map of automation in social services decision-making in Australia. It aims to amplify alternative discourses that are often obscured by power inequalities and disadvantage. Redden (2005) has used counter-mapping to frame an analysis of big data in government in Canada, contrasting with ‘dominant outward facing government discourses about big data applications’ to focus on
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Introduction to the digital welfare state: Contestations, considerations and entanglements Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Georgia van Toorn, Paul Henman, Karen Soldatić
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Sociology focused on critical analysis of the digital welfare state. The digitalisation of welfare policy, institutions and service delivery has led to increased scrutiny, social sorting and surveillance of welfare recipients and other marginalised groups. This collection of papers contributes to current debates about digital welfare using sociological
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“The clock is ticking”: (dis)orientations to ageing and end-of-life care in advanced capitalism and care directives Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Tanya Zivkovic, Simone Marino
This article engages Italian migrant experiences and enactments of futurity to problematize neoliberal anticipatory approaches to ageing and care. Stepping beyond the focus on atomized and agentic individuals and a singular imagined future defined by notions of advancement and progress, sistemazione (home, future, and security) offers ways of building alternative and relational futures within times
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Towards a minor sociology of futures: Shifting futures in Mass Observation accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Corine van Emmerik, Rebecca Coleman, Dawn Lyon
This article argues for a ‘minor sociology of futures’, which focuses on the significance of futures in and to everyday life by attending to minor shifts in temporal rhythms and patterns that illuminate how futures are imagined and made. We draw on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of the major and minor, to attend to how major time is ruptured and remade and how minor temporalities can be productive
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Youth and hospitality work: Skills, subjectivity and affective labour Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 David Farrugia, Julia Coffey, Rosalind Gill, Megan Sharp, Steven Threadgold
Hospitality is popularly regarded as unskilled work and the industry relies on a young labour force. This paper examines the role of youth in the way that the ‘unskilled’ status of hospitality labour is defined and contested by workers. Drawing on qualitative data collected with hospitality workers, the paper creates new connections between theories of affective labour, the politics of skills, and
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The absorbent digital welfare state: Silencing dissent, steering progress Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Morten Flemming Hjelholt
This paper explores the intricate dynamics of digital welfare within the context of late-capitalist welfare states, focusing on the advanced digitalisation initiatives of Denmark. It offers a critical analysis of the concept of ‘digital welfare’ – defined as the integration of digital technologies into the frameworks of social protection. Central to the research is how the Danish welfare state, recognised
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Climbing, stalling, falling: How people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Stefanie Plage, Rose-Marie Stambe, Cameron Parsell, Ella Kuskoff
For people experiencing housing instability, considerable uncertainty and future risks coincide with a lack of affordable housing supply. Housing instability often entails movement across different forms of accommodation while facing the possibility of homelessness. Thinking with anticipation outlined by Adams et al. as a regime of knowledge espousing specific governing principles, this study explores
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Risky business: How food-delivery platform riders understand and manage safety at work Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Qingyu Wang, Brendan Churchill
This study explores the issue of workplace safety among food-delivery workers who use platforms like UberEATS and Deliveroo to secure work. Despite the high exposure to hazardous traffic, extreme weather conditions, and unsafe work hours and locations that these workers face daily, safety remains a low priority for both platforms and governments. This study utilizes in-depth qualitative interviews
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Invisible innovation: Intellectual labour on regional university campuses in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Merete Schmidt, Lucinda Aberdeen, Colleen Carlon, Robyn Eversole
In Australia, regional university campuses occupy a geographically and institutionally peripheral position in a metrocentric higher education system. We argue that the concentration of research funding and capabilities at metropolitan campuses devalues the intellectual labour of academics working on regional university campuses. The authors use collaborative autoethnography to explore a common theme
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Enabling futures? Disability and sociology of futures Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Hannah Morgan, Richard Tutton
Much envisaging of the future is inherently ableist. Euro-American cultural imaginaries traditionally have emphasised the narrative of medical progress, assuming the end of impairment. Disability is a frequent trope for and in dystopias, whereas more positive or progressive futures ignore the presence and aspirations of disabled people who are frequently excluded from individual and collective endeavours
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Fight, or flee, the future: Affect in contrasting responses against future collective death Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Joshua Hurtado Hurtado
Sociologies of the future offer insights into how the future is apprehended by social actors and motivates their actions. Contemporary narratives of crises in the Anthropocene portray an increasingly likely future: one of future collective death. This article conceptualises collective death as a future that possesses both imaginary and material dimensions. I argue that future collective death generates
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Affecting the future: A multi-method qualitative text and discourse analysis of emotions in Australian news reporting on climate change and climate anxiety Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Rebecca E. Olson, Alexandra Smith, Jordan McKenzie, Roger Patulny, Alberto Bellocchi
Eco-anxiety and associated emotions are on the rise. International estimates range from 25–68% prevalence. Australians now regard climate change as their top concern for the future, with some young people reconsidering their intentions to become parents. The emotional sequela from climate change is becoming clearer. How it is conceptualised, responded to, and reinforced within public discourse requires
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Ambivalent presents, open futures: Affective constructions of the future among highly qualified Turkish migrants in Germany Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Anlam Filiz
Turkish migrant professionals in Germany are valued as highly skilled individuals. They describe their lives in Germany mostly in positive terms. Their social, cultural and mobility capital enables them to imagine the future as including favourable circumstances for them such as exciting job opportunities. At the same time, heightened anti-migrant discourses and uncertainties about the future create
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‘It needs to be within the bounds of what is acceptable and required of us’: Governing hair in Queensland high schools Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Kayla Mildren
This paper analyses how regulations on hair are constructed and justified in the uniform policies of Queensland high schools. Covering Government, Catholic, and Protestant schools, this paper explores how uniform policy across these sectors deploys the rhetoric of community values and appropriate representation, promoting the idea that uniformity is unity. Drawing on an analysis of 50 uniform policies
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‘It's very hard to have a future when you can’t travel’: Meaning, mobility and mortality after a cancer diagnosis Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Leah Williams Veazey, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom
Being diagnosed with a life-limiting illness entails a fundamental reshaping of one's relationship with the future. From ‘bucket lists’ of destinations and experiences to ‘flights of hope’ for experimental or specialised medical care, diagnoses of serious illness are deeply entwined with travel in Australian cultural narratives. In this paper, we draw on a thematic analysis of interviews with cancer
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Disablism, racism and the spectre of eugenics in digital welfare Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Georgia van Toorn, Karen Soldatić
This article explores the historical ties between the digital welfare state and eugenics, highlighting how the use of data infrastructures for classification and governance in the digital era has roots in eugenic data practices and ideas. Through an analysis of three domains of automated decision-making – child welfare, immigration and disability benefits – the article demonstrates how these automated
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Publishing during a sociology PhD in Australia: Differences by elite and non-elite universities and gender Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Adam Rajčan, Edgar A Burns
We examined the latest decade of Australian sociology PhD completions for differences in the number and quality of research outputs students published during doctoral enrolment. There was no evidence of a statistically significant difference between Go8 PhD students and their non-Go8 PhD counterparts in terms of either the quantity of research publications achieved, or the quality of these publications
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Tensions in digital welfare states: Three perspectives on care and control Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Irina Zakharova, Juliane Jarke, Anne Kaun
Proponents of digital transformation in welfare provision argue that digital technologies can take over tedious tasks and free resources to provide better care for those in need. Digital technologies, however, are often developed in line with a logic of control and dispositions around surveillance and efficiency which challenge careful engagements. In this conceptual article, we explore emerging tensions
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Book Review: Social Work and Human Services Responsibilities in a Time of Climate Change by Amanda Howard, Margot Rawsthorne, Pam Joseph, Mareese Terare, Dara Sampson and Meaghan Katrak Harris Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Andi Ainun Juniarsi Nur, Ni Made Ray Rika Azzhara, Celvin Yhosep Sinaga
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Intermediaries as infrastructure: Interrogating the phatic labor of state-building Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ranjit Singh
Investments in the digital welfare state are often driven by the promise of removing intermediaries between the state and citizens, yet they continue to play a key role in the last mile delivery of state services. By intermediaries, I mean people who interface between bureaucrats and citizens. Their work, often as proxies for citizens, is not only to simplify bureaucratic procedures for them, but also
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Educators’ hands are tied: The impact of heteronormative and cisnormative discourses on students in faith-based schools in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Bronwyn Fielder, Douglas Ezzy, Angela Dwyer
Australian religious conservatives continue to argue that religiously affiliated schools should be able to discriminate based on the sexuality and/or gender identity of students. We argue that this discussion fails to adequately consider the serious harms that discrimination against LGBTQ+ educators has on LGBTQ+ and questioning students. The article uses data from an Australian qualitative study examining
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Digitalisation and the welfare state – how First Nations people experienced digitalised social security under the Cashless Debit Card Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Shelley Bielefeld
Digitalisation of the welfare state has intensified in recent years, with burdens unevenly distributed between technology advocates and those receiving government income support. Putting in place processes where people needing social security must meet mandatory requirements of digital literacy and divert a significant amount of their small incomes to pay for expensive technologies such as computers
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Parallel lives or active citizens? Examining the interplay between multicultural service provision and civic engagement in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Fethi Mansouri, Matteo Vergani, Enqi Weng
Over recent decades, there have been increased public debates about rising level of ethnic and religious diversity and their implications for social cohesion and intercultural relations. These contestations are often situated within a diversity governance continuum with two opposing and often extreme poles both in the policy arena as well as the academic literature. The first pole sees diversity as
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Working against the clock: digital surveillance in US Medicaid homecare services Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Alexandra Mateescu
This article explores the implementation of a digital verification system known as Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) across homecare services for older and disabled adults within the US Medicaid program. EVV systems are used to conduct daily check-ins through GPS tracking and biometric identity verification. While touted as a means to identify and deter “fraud, waste, and abuse,” the digital monitoring
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Come together? The unusual combination of precariat materialist and educated post-materialist support for an Australian Universal Basic Income Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Roger Patulny, Ben Spies-Butcher
International studies using the European Social Survey (ESS) reveal higher support for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in poorer countries with less generous welfare systems, and among individuals wit...
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Risk-taking and social inequality Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Jens O Zinn
Even though risk-taking is a common and widespread social experience sociological theorizing on the concept is scarce. This contribution aims to systematize and advance understanding of risk-taking...
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The destabilising effect of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourse: A feminist poststructuralist account of change in men's friendships Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Brittany Ralph
Critically engaging with prevailing theories of change in masculinities, this article offers a feminist poststructuralist account of Australian men's increasingly intimate same-gender friendships. ...
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One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Justine Topham, Naomi Smith
This article traces how misinformation occurs and is negotiated in What I Eat In A Day (WIEIAD) videos. Data were collected from 84 WIEIAD videos across 59 YouTube accounts. Our discourse analysis ...
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How to navigate a pandemic: Competing discourses in The Australian Women's Weekly magazine Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Sara James, Anne-Maree Sawyer
As the Covid-19 pandemic caused schools, workplaces, and childcare centres to close, pressures in the home increased. Much of the additional unpaid work required under these conditions was done by ...
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Making friends with the family: A fresh look at coming out Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Shiva Chandra, Jennifer Wilkinson
There is limited in-depth theorisation of positive coming-out experiences within families of origin. This is especially true for diasporic South Asian communities living in majority Anglophone cont...
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The metamorphoses of cultural capital in a neoliberal and multicultural era: Towards a comparative approach Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Gisèle Sapiro
This review essay of Fields, Capitals, Habitus first discusses how this in-depth inquiry into the lifestyles and cultural practices in Australia contributes to the rich discussions sparked by the p...
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Introduction: Surveying the survey Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 David Rowe, Tony Bennett
This article reviews the terms in which the Australian Cultural Fields project engaged with the concepts of fields, capitals, and habitus. It also places these concepts in the context of their long...
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Shades of green: Change, continuity and conservation among Tasmanian forestry workers Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Megan Langridge, Rob White
The Tasmanian forestry industry has undergone major transition due to industry readjustments and critique from environmental movements. This article focuses on how Tasmanian forestry workers think ...
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Linking with migrants: The potential of digitally mediated connections to build social capital during crisis Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Charishma Ratnam, Chloe Keel, Rebecca Wickes
Migrants rely on social capital when (re)settling in host communities. Connections with organisations are fundamental to developing local ties and accessing services. While scholarship is replete w...
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Coda: The last cultural capital survey? Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Tony Bennett, David Rowe
In asking whether the survey conducted for the Australian Cultural Fields project might be the last of its kind, this article reflects on the issues raised by the participants in this review sympos...
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What comes after fields, capitals, habitus? Suggestions for future cultural consumption research in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Steven Threadgold
This article critically engages with the Australian Cultural Fields project and the book Fields, Capitals, Habitus to make suggestions as to what future research on consumption practices needs to c...
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Bourdieu's habitus clivé in voicing, feeling, being Aboriginal Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Julie Andrews, Edgar Burns, Claire James, Adam Rajčan
Bourdieu's concept of habitus clivé is discussed in relation to Aboriginal Australians’ experience within dominant White society. The argument is put forward that the concept can make an important ...
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Legitimate culture, field of power, and domination Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Naoki Iso
This review critically examines the Fields, Capitals, Habitus (FCH) study and discusses its potential application to a forthcoming study in Japan. It investigates FCH from four perspectives. First,...
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A matter of time? Institutional timescapes and gendered inequalities in the transition from education to employment in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Lyn Craig, Signe Ravn, Brendan Churchill, Maria Rebecca Valenzuela
This article explores why women miss out in the transition from the educational system to the labour market. Using nationally representative longitudinal data (2001–18) from the Household Income an...
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Can a basic income help address homelessness? A Titmussian perspective Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Andrew Clarke
Homelessness is a worsening problem across the developed world and existing policy responses are failing to have an impact. This article considers whether a basic income (BI) can play a role in rad...
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Changing masculinities? Using caring masculinity to analyse social media responses to the decline of men in Australian primary school teaching Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Nicholas Samuel Hookway, Vaughan Cruickshank
Commentators have predicted that Australian male primary school teachers will be extinct within 50 years. Drawing upon sociological ideas about the emergence of ‘caring masculinities’, this article...
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Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Kath Albury, Natalie Hendry
This article draws on Epstein's theorisations of the ‘ideal’ of sexual health and wellbeing to argue that young people's access to digital sexual health content should not be understood primarily a...
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Teaching gender in and through uncertainty Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Frances Egan
Where higher education classrooms can be sites of both cultural contestation and epistemic violence, this article examines the critical and ethical value of building uncertainty into our teaching o...
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OBGYNs of TikTok and the role of misinformation in diffractive knowledge production Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Clare Southerton, Marianne Clark
Health misinformation on social media has largely been examined from a harms-focused perspective, with scholars seeking to identify what impacts misinformation has on public health and a popular fo...
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Re-politicising the future of work: Automation anxieties, universal basic income, and the end of techno-optimism Journal of Sociology (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Lauren Kelly
‘Rise of the Robots’, the ‘Second Machine Age’ and ‘This Time it's Different’ are some of the sweeping headlines that frame contemporary popular narratives of the future of work. It is often claime...