The Caliph, the Imam and the mates: Cyber Islam and the formation of second generation migrant's national identity in Australia
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Ghada Wadeisa, PhD Candidate, School of Sociology, ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon Allen Building #2175 "Googling God" is the term used by a second generation participants to describe his online activity with Cyber Islam. Cyber Islam represent a new pathways of interactivity and interconnection among…
The five faces of social inclusion: Theory and methods underpinning approaches to the measurement of social inclusion for children with disabilities
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Rebecca Taylor, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Sociology, ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon Allen Building #2175 ‘Social inclusion’ is increasingly identified within key policy documents as a desired outcome for people with disabilities. Consequently, service providers are looking for methods which can…
Resilience and Societal Security: Change, (Dis)order and Disaster Management
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Dr Peter Rogers 'Climate Futures' Co-Director, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Larry Saha Room, Haydon Allen Building #2175 Resilience is now a central policy metaphor in dealing with danger. Resilient ways of thinking, doing and acting are increasingly at the heart of attempts to…
Implications of flat ontologies: rethinking responsibility and sustainability within ‘new materialism’
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Catherine Ayres, Phd Candidate School of Sociology, ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen Building # 2175 Materialism is being reinvigorated. Again. Through the works of theorists such as Jane Bennett and Diana Coole, ‘new materialism’ attempts to foreground and examine the material…
Smiling for Control in Theory
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Kaima Negishi PhD Candidate, Sociology ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 This paper will look at how the ‘affective’ gesture of smiling has been deployed to modulate passengers’ feelings, emotions and affects in Japanese railway stations today. In late-capitalist economies, a growing number…
Self-Interest in Chinese Discourse and Practice
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Larry Saha Room, #2175 Haydon-Allen Building #22. Professor Jack Barbalet, Sociology Department, Hong Kong Baptist University. The paper examines the concept of self-interest by considering its operation in a context in which it is widely held that self-interest has no place. China is often…
On the Politics and Poetics of Data Capture: Encodement, Transposure, Translation and Cyborgness
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Dr Gavin Smith, Senior Lecturer, Sociology ANU, Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175 The everyday production of surveillance generates what has been termed ‘surveillance space’, an intermediary, technologically-facilitated, multi-dimensional zone of simulation where institutions and…