This book explores relationships and practices of care as collectively produced and enacted in the lives of migrants in diverse contexts.

This text responds to Watermeyer and Harvey’s (2025) article ‘Screwing with our Embodiment: A Response to Thorneycroft’s Re-Imagining of the Social Model’. In their article, they trouble an article that explored the impairment-disability distinction central to the social model of disability. They contend that my linguistic/discursive theorisation of impaired/disabled construction contributes to a ‘disappearing’ or ‘vanishing’ body that fails to grapple with its materiality. In response, they turn to phenomenology and critical realism to illustrate a material body that cannot be denied. My response is that such arguments rest on particular meanings associated with construction, performativity, and discourse that this article seeks to further clarify. Moreover, my text was not intended to dispute the materiality of the impaired/disabled body but to show how that body appears at all. Phenomenology and critical realism may be important for grappling with disabled embodiment, but it would be inapposite to invoke ‘somatophobia’ for those who pursue alternative theoretical trajectories.

Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded). The funding that supports this project has an expected duration of 5 years. Working at ANU This is an opportunity to work with a world class University that undertakes cutting edge research and has a strong tradition in research-led teaching excellence. We offer: Flexible working arrangements including hybrid arrangements working both on our beautiful, green campus and working remotely, Generous paid personal and annual leave entitlements; and Career support, training, mentoring & upskilling opportunities. For more information...

Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded). The funding that supports this project has an expected duration of 3.5 years. Working at ANU This is an opportunity to work with a world class University that undertakes cutting edge research and has a strong tradition in research-led teaching excellence. We offer: Flexible working arrangements including hybrid arrangements working both on our beautiful, green campus and working remotely, Generous paid personal and annual leave entitlements; and Career support, training, mentoring & upskilling opportunities. For more information...

Obligated to Care is The Sociological Review’s July 2025 Monograph. It focuses on the family in China today, and the factors – historical, economic and cultural – that shape it.

Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuation (Pro Rata) Terms: Part time (0.8FTE), Fixed Term (up to 33 months)  Position Overview The position is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, based in the School of Sociology within the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS). We are seeking a highly capable and self-motivated Research Fellow to work on the Experimenting with Estrogen project, funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant. This project aims to investigate how scientists, clinicians and lay people are experimenting with the hormone estrogen. The Research Fellow will design an...

Health and inequality in Australia

This book brings together cutting-edge theoretical research into the nature and experience of time in relation to health, illness and care.

People living with the contested chronic illnesses Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID experience prejudice, dismissal and denial of their lived realities, due in part to their illnesses currently having no...

This book examines the complexities of young men’s online engagements and offers support for cultivating critical digital dispositions for gender justice.

This book examines the role of higher education in shaping global citizenship among university students and shares insights into civic responsibility.

This paper employs a case study using familial patriarchal framework to contribute to the literature of first generation married Pakistani women’s experiences in Pakistani diaspora in Western Australia. Through a qualitative interpretive phenomenological approach, it highlights how these women navigate selective assimilation, striving to fulfill their marital aspirations while balancing familial and cultural expectations. Theoretically, this study builds on Gerda Lerner’s Paternalistic Dominance (PD) concept. The study’s aims were to: 1) emphasize on learned and cultural context of performing gender roles, 2) explain women’s divergent perspectives on PD, and 3) stress the importance of culturally competent social services for Pakistani immigrant women in diaspora. The study employed Braun and Clark’s (2021) thematic analysis to arrive at themes from the data that clustered in three sections: Traditional gender roles, Family values, and PD. The analysis was conducted from a feminist standpoint, which revealed that patriarchal ideologies, culture, and expected future and present securities through marital union influenced many women to reproduce gendered inequality. Women’s narratives indicate that they consider themselves informed moral agents responsible for continuing traditionality and collective identity. The culturally learned patriarchal beliefs take shape as neopatriarchy after encountering Australian society. We argue that neo-patriarchy is like an old wine in a new bottle. Women reproduce patriarchal norms, giving privileges to male authority and legitimising institutionalised gendered domination through family and marriage. This case study aims to shed light on women’s role in reproducing gender inequality in marital and family institutions. It also aims to present nuances about women’s religiosity, personal attitudes and real practices and how religious and personal perspectives are culturally constructed.