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- Tasmanian forests and their people: Self-narrative, forests and
temporalities-
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Authors: Rebecca Banham
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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’ time, ‘external’ time and ‘ontological’ time. Participants’ recollections show how forest help make time ‘knowable’, in terms of one's own self-trajectory, and time scales which far exceed individual human lives. This link between forests, time and narrative has important implications for the ongoing conversation about temporality in the social sciences, contextualising the reciprocal, subjunctive relationship between humans and nonhumans. This article closes with an invitation to further the ongoing conversation about temporality in the social sciences, particularly in the field of qualitative environmental sociology.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-27T11:23:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241268879
- Reckonings with truth: Sovereign truths on Country
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Authors: Vanessa Barolsky
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 been documented. This article analyses a small sample of these projects, drawing on case study research. It argues that these activities, grounded in Indigenous onto-epistemology, offer unique opportunities to explore the decolonising potential of truth-telling. These truth practices defy the eliminatory logic of settler colonialism, creating spaces for pedagogic encounter that trouble the settler-colonial order by enacting multiple sovereignties on Country. Importantly, they provide insights for formal truth-telling, modelling resurgent, prefigurative praxis that incorporates Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in transformative processes that could help navigate the challenges of transitional justice in the settler-colonial context.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:26:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241266017
- Reflections on decolonizing truth-telling in the writing of Behrouz
Boochani-
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Authors: Karen Berger
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 borders as a theme and crosses borders by utilizing disparate literary forms to great effect. I explore truth-telling in Boochani's work through the lenses of border thinking, as theorized by Gloria Anzaldúa and Walter Mignolo, and heterotopia (other-place), as theorized by Michel Foucault. Boochani describes himself as ‘A shepherd who reads Foucault’, and states that it is possible to ‘examine Manus Prison using a Foucauldian framework and apply his philosophical critique of the prison, the mental asylum and psychology.’ Border and heterotopic thinking both provide powerful tools to critique institutionalized power structures and explore understandings and approaches towards decolonization.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:26:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241266016
- Historical education and colonial racist violences: A contribution to
debates on historic reparations for Black, Afro-descendant people in
Colombia-
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Authors: Alejandra Londoño Bustamante
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 such as those pertaining to the African diaspora who were victims of the slave trade and are now settled in Colombia. Through this web, I also discuss pedagogies that incorporate categories such as the longue durée, historical consciousness and continuity and change that contribute to restorative, anticolonial and historical reparation processes.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:25:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241263988
- Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial
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Authors: Ricky Emmerton, Kristi Giselsson
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 and spoken communication. Through the painting Battle Mountain Memorial (2022) by Kalkatungu artist and co-author Ricky Emmerton, the authors explore how Indigenous art can subtly express profound truths regarding the misuse of colonial power. Through removing the shroud of silence in retelling the incident of the massacre of Kalkatungu people at Battle Mountain in 1884, this artwork is presented as a form of truth-telling, ensuring these events and truths are not overlooked or supplanted. Thus, this article contributes to discussions on interdisciplinary methodologies that incorporate Indigenous and non-Indigenous research methods, and on the interaction of visual, written and oral knowledges.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:25:13Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241255153
- Coloniality and decoloniality in ‘comfort women’ memory activism:
Transnational and transgenerational truth-telling practices in Australia-
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Authors: Jae-Eun Noh
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 on memory activism in Australia. Australia's historical connections to ‘comfort women’ and diasporic space for decolonial encounters have enriched memory activism in Australia. The article highlights that truth-telling practices of survivors and activists have challenged the coloniality of power, knowledge and gender by valuing marginalised voices, contesting colonial imaginaries and constructing collective memory for the decolonial present and future. It suggests decolonial praxis as a direction for ‘comfort women’ memory activism in transnational and transgenerational spaces.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:24:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241253629
- Decolonising consciousness: Confronting and living with colonial truths in
Australia-
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Authors: Abraham Bradfield
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 how the cultivation of a ‘decolonising consciousness’ may assist in confronting national and personal truths while also helping citizens of settler-colonial nations acquire the proficiency needed to put decolonial understandings into praxis. I argue that decolonising truths entails a responsive consciousness that is informed by frameworks such as border thinking, agonistic pluralism and kincentric orientations. Decolonising truth enables non-Indigenous settlers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples alike to live alongside the complexities of mutually informing, competing, and at times incommensurable worldviews; this is the point of departure in the ongoing path towards reconciliation.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:24:14Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241253017
- Tracing the limits of epistemic agency in truth-telling about Australian
settler colonialism-
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Authors: Priya Kunjan
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 cultivated silences and/or colonial triumphalism and the costs of repetitive epistemic labour. The landscape of communicative exchange thus outlined suggests the need for a more nuanced assessment of the decolonial potential of truth-telling about colonial violence in Australia, given a contemporary context wherein settler individuals and institutions increasingly attempt to elicit such testimony from Indigenous people. Discourse analysis of media items published in 2020 about 26 January, Australia's national day, reveals Indigenous people’s resistance against both colonial untruths and the racialised epistemic power differential enabling their circulation.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:23:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241252193
- The ‘dead’ as agents of truth-telling: Lessons from Timor-Leste and
the Indigenous repatriation movement-
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Authors: Lia Kent, Steve Hemming, Daryle Rigney, Cressida Fforde
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 article draws on the cases of Timor-Leste and the international Indigenous repatriation movement to argue that decolonising truth-telling requires, in the context of Indigenous harms, an expansion of both the scope and the subjects of truth-telling. We ask: how might the dead become agents of truth-telling' We advance the argument that truth-telling needs to become a holistic and relational practice that does not disconnect the living from the dead. This is essential if truth-telling is to foster healing and justice and not perpetuate further violence.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-16T01:23:24Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241245536
- Reckoning with truth globally: Decolonial possibilities
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Authors: Vanessa Barolsky, Laura Rodriguez Castro, Yin Paradies
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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, rather than reconciliation, with the past and colonial logics of power, might mean. In doing so, we argue that the liberal, modernist imaginary of justice on which many truth processes have been premised, is constraining our imagination of more radical ‘fugitive’ forms justice. Drawing from contributions from Australia and other global contexts this special issue investigates these limitations and the transformative potential of truth as a decolonial, sovereign, embodied and relational praxis. Contributors engage with the pluriversality of truth in ways that trouble the nation-state and centre the sovereignty and onto-epistemology of racialised and First Nations peoples, often excluded from transitional justice processes, thus offering pathways for radical resistance, resurgence and prefigurative transformation.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-14T02:24:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833231216176
- Do-it-yourself lifestyle movements in grassroots activist communities: A
case study of Brisbane, Australia-
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Authors: Elise Imray Papineau, Andy Bennett
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 organising. We present the case study of an activist blockade camp emerging during the COVID-19 lockdown in Brisbane in 2020 to explore activist lifestyles in the Australian context and reflect on the possibilities of radicalisation and collective affinities through Do-It-Yourself politics and practices. The impact of COVID-19 during early 2020 and the socio-economic disruptions that followed provide an interesting backdrop against which to study the development of Do-It-Yourself activist lifestyles within social movements. Our findings illustrate the potential of activist lifestyle movements within and beyond localised campaigns, while reinforcing the relevance of using Do-It-Yourself frameworks to theorise activist culture.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-09T08:28:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241269183
- Book Review: The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class – Special
COVID-19 Edition by Guy Standing-
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Authors: Mrittika Dreesha
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-08-09T08:27:55Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241269169
- ‘This is NOT human services’: Counter-mapping automated
decision-making in social services in Australia-
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Authors: Lyndal Sleep
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 how data practices are both socially shaped and shaping. This paper reports on a counter-mapping project undertaken in Australia using a mixed methods approach incorporating document analysis, interviews and web scraping to amplify divergent discourses about automated decision-making. It demonstrates that when the focus of analysis moves beyond dominant discourses of neoliberal efficiency, cost cutting, accuracy and industriousness, alternative discourses of service users’ experiences of automated decision-making as oppressive, harmful, punitive and inhuman(e) can be located.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-26T09:02:04Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241266022
- Book Review: Digital Migration by Koen Leurs
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Authors: Shashini Gamage
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-26T09:01:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241266019
- Book Review: Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and
Resources by Louise Ryan-
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Authors: Raelene Wilding
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-26T09:01:14Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241264578
- Introduction to the digital welfare state: Contestations, considerations
and entanglements-
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Authors: Georgia van Toorn, Paul Henman, Karen Soldatić
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 approaches which foreground the role of power relations and human agency in shaping these dynamics. We provide introductory insights into themes explored within the collection, including the connection of digitalisation with ‘the social’, the role of digital technologies in truth-making, and the importance of humans and their labour in operationalising digital welfare. In addition, we highlight the value of sociological research in revealing the various processes and relationships through which state power is constituted and expressed digitally.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-26T09:00:45Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241260890
- “The clock is ticking”: (dis)orientations to ageing and end-of-life
care in advanced capitalism and care directives-
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Authors: Tanya Zivkovic, Simone Marino
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 and spaces of shared precarity. We draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Italian migrant families living in Adelaide, and a critical analysis of objects as “orienting devices,” to consider how a family heirloom, a 26-face handmade Italian clock made from the physical remnants of World War II, offers new ways of imagining care within spaces of ruin.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-29T06:44:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241249510
- Towards a minor sociology of futures: Shifting futures in Mass Observation
accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic-
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Authors: Corine van Emmerik, Rebecca Coleman, Dawn Lyon
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 of new relationships with the major and different futures. Our analysis focuses on the intricate and ambivalent relations with futures articulated in written reflections submitted during the early phase (March–November 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK to a Mass Observation directive on COVID-19 and time. Nourishing a sensitivity to the minor helps us develop a minor sociology that takes futures seriously, which we argue matters in times of uncertainty that stretch beyond the pandemic.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-28T06:01:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241248672
- The absorbent digital welfare state: Silencing dissent, steering progress
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Authors: Morten Flemming Hjelholt
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 for its e-government leadership, engages with and incorporates critiques to sustain its approach to digital transformation. Utilising Boltanski's theories on the absorption of capitalist critique and Mathiesen's ‘silently silencing’ concept, the study examines the state's proficiency in assimilating criticism. The findings reveal the persistent flexibility of late-capitalist governance systems, especially in how digital welfare policies are leveraged to reconnect citizens with state mechanisms while simultaneously mitigating dissent. The research highlights the necessity for ongoing investigation into the implications of digitalisation for welfare institutions and societal structures at large.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-22T08:36:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241253632
- Youth and hospitality work: Skills, subjectivity and affective labour
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Authors: David Farrugia, Julia Coffey, Rosalind Gill, Megan Sharp, Steven Threadgold
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 conceptions of youth in relation to work. The paper shows that the capacity to be ‘fun’ and produce affects of enjoyment in hospitality venues is essentialised as an attribute of youth, who are regarded as essentially unskilled. Youth is enacted in the social relations of affective labour, including the requirement to produce affects of enjoyment. The paper shows how theories of affective labour can be developed to consider the materialities of low-wage service employment and demonstrates the significance of youthful subjectivities to social relations of hospitality work.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-22T08:35:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241252486
- Climbing, stalling, falling: How people experiencing housing instability
anticipate their futures-
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Authors: Stefanie Plage, Rose-Marie Stambe, Cameron Parsell, Ella Kuskoff
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 storytelling about the future by people experiencing housing instability. Here, anticipation manifests as agentic future orientation in hopes, practices and social norms geared towards secure housing. Drawing on narrative interviews and participant-produced photographs collected in 2022 in an urban centre in Queensland, Australia, we analyse how participants imagine their futures and what they consider right and actionable. Our findings highlight how such imaginings leaned on and challenged the linearity inscribed in metaphors depicting a predictable progression towards stable housing through appropriate action in the present.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-17T05:30:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241255151
- Enabling futures' Disability and sociology of futures
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Authors: Hannah Morgan, Richard Tutton
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 to articulate and shape the future. They are presumed to be in effect ‘futureless’, lacking a future of value, leaving an unoccupied space for existing inequalities and privileges to flourish. This paper brings disability studies and sociology of futures into dialogue and makes the case for creating crip space(s) within sociologies of the future. Foregrounding disability can trouble and enrich sociological engagements with futurity, while analytic perspectives from sociology of futures can inform scholarship in disability studies.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-16T07:22:31Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241248193
- Risky business: How food-delivery platform riders understand and manage
safety at work-
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Authors: Qingyu Wang , Brendan Churchill
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 with 14 platform food delivery workers in Melbourne, Australia, to examine how they understand and manage safety risks at work, drawing on a theoretical framework of necropolitics and liminal precarity. The riders are predominantly migrant workers on temporary visas who face corporeal risks influenced by factors such as road conditions, time pressures, and weather. Despite their awareness of these dangers, the study reveals that platform-induced necropower, driven by economic incentives, significantly impacts those heavily dependent on gig economy earnings, ultimately turning safety into a trade-off between making a living and surviving. However, riders also demonstrate agency by mediating risks through experience, knowledge-sharing, and strategic use of the platform's features to resist potentially hazardous conditions.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-16T07:22:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241246571
- Invisible innovation: Intellectual labour on regional university campuses
in Australia-
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Authors: Merete Schmidt, Lucinda Aberdeen, Colleen Carlon, Robyn Eversole
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 of ‘gap filling’, that is, mobilising scarce resources to create unique solutions for local issues, and draw on Southern Theory to theorise the implications for our work in the location-based power relations of the Australian knowledge production economy. In this context, we utilise Eversole's concept of ‘invisible innovation’ to theorise how the important place-based knowledge work associated with ‘gap filling’ on regional university campuses is rendered invisible by the metrocentric geopolitics of knowledge production within Australia. The research reveals that the place-based knowledge work of regional academics fills gaps in regional services and resources through innovations largely unrecognised within the higher education system.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-16T05:16:14Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241252711
- Fight, or flee, the future: Affect in contrasting responses against future
collective death-
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Authors: Joshua Hurtado Hurtado
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 various affective responses that prompt social coalitions to resist its realisation, and I exemplify it with two cases: Extinction Rebellion and Space Colonisation. I explore how futurelessness and grief motivate Extinction Rebellion's direct non-violent actions to fight against future collective death, while death anxiety and terminality drive Space Colonisation's attempts to flee from it. In doing so, I illustrate the role of imagination, affect and material means in configuring future-oriented socio-political action.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-16T05:16:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241251859
- Ambivalent presents, open futures: Affective constructions of the future
among highly qualified Turkish migrants in Germany-
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Authors: Anlam Filiz
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 potential risks. By bringing together the sociological literatures on ambivalence and the future, I analyse how highly skilled Turkish migrants make projections about their future in Germany under this ambivalent atmosphere. Based on interviews conducted with 29 highly qualified Turkish migrants in Germany in 2022, the article identifies openness as an affective mechanism, which can be deployed both to embrace opportunities and navigate instabilities that might emerge in the future.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-08T05:40:42Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241253293
- Affecting the future: A multi-method qualitative text and discourse
analysis of emotions in Australian news reporting on climate change and
climate anxiety-
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Authors: Rebecca E. Olson, Alexandra Smith, Jordan McKenzie, Roger Patulny, Alberto Bellocchi
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 further consideration. This paper presents a multi-method qualitative text and discourse analysis of Australian online news articles published in 2022 reporting on emotions and our ecological future. Drawing on sociological theories of emotions and Foucauldian conceptualisations of discourse, we present insights into the potency of emotions and discourses within online news media. We identify four differing conceptualisations of emotions, interpret what these discourses can do, and conclude with ways in which the public can reclaim agency in resisting discourses that engender passivity in the context of future ecological threats.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-08T05:40:19Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241248774
- ‘It needs to be within the bounds of what is acceptable and required of
us’: Governing hair in Queensland high schools-
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Authors: Kayla Mildren
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 from Queensland schools, I explore how hair is regulated by such policies and what justifications are provided for this regulation. In doing so, I examine the idea of an imagined, idealised student body and how these regulations impact students’ ability to negotiate with gendered, classed, and racialised constructions of community.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-07T05:48:57Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241253020
- ‘It's very hard to have a future when you can’t travel’: Meaning,
mobility and mortality after a cancer diagnosis-
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Authors: Leah Williams Veazey, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 patients and their carers to ask what meanings are attached to narratives of travel – whether completed or constrained, imagined or interrupted – in the context of a cancer diagnosis. Focusing on narratives of travel draws attention to themes of disruption, resilience, autonomy and living a meaningful life within the precarious timescape of cancer. Through this analysis of time and travel, we examine how normative expectations of how to live with or beyond cancer can produce tensions, particularly in the uncertain but precariously hopeful landscape of precision cancer treatments.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-07T05:48:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241251496
- Disablism, racism and the spectre of eugenics in digital welfare
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Authors: Georgia van Toorn, Karen Soldatić
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 systems perpetuate hierarchical divisions originally shaped by ableist eugenic race science. It underscores the importance of critically engaging with this historical context of data utilisation, emphasising its entanglement with eugenic perspectives on racial, physical and mental superiority, individual and social worth, and the categorisation of data subjects as deserving or undeserving. By engaging with this history, the article provides a deeper understanding of the contemporary digital welfare state, particularly in terms of its discriminatory divisions based on race and disability, which are deeply intertwined.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-04-09T02:23:19Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241244828
- Tensions in digital welfare states: Three perspectives on care and control
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Authors: Irina Zakharova, Juliane Jarke, Anne Kaun
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 in digital welfare arrangements and propose an analytical framework to illuminate interrelations between care and control in values, infrastructures, and work related to the provision of welfare services. Illustrating the application of this framework with three empirical vignettes, we discuss how digital welfare technologies shape relations between state care and control. Considering theories of care in relation to the digital welfare state, we give a nuanced perspective on the contingencies of the digital transformation and add to the literature concerned with social justice by attending to everyday lived experiences in-between control and care.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-12T03:25:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241238312
- 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-
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Authors: Andi Ainun Juniarsi Nur, Ni Made Ray Rika Azzhara, Celvin Yhosep Sinaga
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-12T03:24:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241237390
- Intermediaries as infrastructure: Interrogating the phatic labor of
state-building-
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Authors: Ranjit Singh
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 help insulate them from bureaucratic apathy. Based on 18-months of ethnographic fieldwork, I describe the work of intermediaries around government offices, who (in)visibly support citizens in navigating the bureaucratic procedures of enrolling into Aadhaar, India's biometrics-based national identity number. Building on Julia Elyachar's conception of “phatic labor,” I position such intermediaries themselves as infrastructure and illustrate how their affective networks can be leveraged to orchestrate a form of distributive justice to ensure that being marginal does not preclude a citizen's access to welfare services.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-05T08:20:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241234675
- Digitalisation and the welfare state – how First Nations people
experienced digitalised social security under the Cashless Debit Card-
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Authors: Shelley Bielefeld
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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, smartphones, and data plans comes at a cost. This article examines lived experiences of First Nations Cashless Debit Card (CDC) holders who experienced digitalisation of their social security payments. Under the CDC, a range of restrictions were placed on purchases, spending social security income came with stigma, technology troubles meant that income was less secure, and Indigenous peoples’ autonomy was undermined. Although the CDC has since been abolished, these issues remain relevant as a new cashless social security card, the SmartCard, has been introduced in 2023.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-01T07:53:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833241232636
- Working against the clock: digital surveillance in US Medicaid homecare
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Authors: Alexandra Mateescu
Abstract: Journal of Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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 also generates detailed data trails on the lives and habits of service recipients, as well as constraining their daily movements. Drawing on qualitative interviews with workers and clients, I argue that this case study calls attention to how harms from digitalization of social welfare provision emerge from workplace surveillance and labor management, and how EVV becomes a tool for more finely tuning classifications of different types of paid and unpaid care. The burdensome digital compliance hurdles reinforced older employment tensions between the state, care workers, and public benefits recipients.
Citation: Journal of Sociology
PubDate: 2024-02-02T05:28:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/14407833231226097
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