Last Wednesday, 2 December, at the annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA), there was a plenary titled ‘Southern Perspectives’. Speakers included Raewyn Connell, Chilla Bulbeck, Margaret Jolly and Peter Beilharz. They considered the following questions: Is there a ‘southern sociology’? What kind of sociology do we teach and research in Australia? Should southern [...]
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- The Antarctic DictionaryVocabulary collected by Bernadette Hice of words particular to the experience of living in the deep South […]
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