New Book: New Zealand Musicians in Australia 1959 -1976

Christine Mintrom, New Zealand Musicians in Australia 1959 – 1976 Vol. 1 and 2 (Tangerine Press, 2025)

Melbourne launch 2pm Sunday February 23 @ Wolfhound, 386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy.

Call for papers: Functional lines of thinking

Despite strong criticism, functional reasoning is still present in social theory and research. However, references often remain hidden. As a consequence, potentials cannot unfold, nor shortcomings be reflected. Starting from this consideration, our special issue aims to reconsider the potentials and shortcomings of functional lines of thinking in current sociology.

New Book: The Socialist Side of World Literature

The Socialist Side of World Literature explores Socialist Realism in English-language publications since 1935. While many studies have focused mainly on the Soviet Union and Europe, often overlooking significant figures from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and marginalized groups in the First and Second Worlds, this book looks at the many crucial questions that have remained unanswered, including why the emergence of Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe constituted a pivotal cultural event for Russia.

Book Review: No Country for Idealists and My Father’s Shadow

Boris Frankel, No Country for Idealists. The making of a family of subversives (Greenmeadows, Melbourne, 2023)

Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo, My Father’s Shadow. A memoir (Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2023)

Reviewed by Alastair Davidson

Call for Papers: International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture

This conference centers on exchanges in literature, film, and acrobatics between the (former)Third World and the (former)First and (former)Second Worlds, alongside interactions within and across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Equal emphasis is placed on addressing gender and minority issues within these contexts. We invite submissions from scholars across disciplines to engage in this vibrant intellectual exchange.

Issue 183, August 2024 – Leveraging feminist approaches to care

Scholarly and popular attention to the concept of care has re-entered the zeitgeist. While the concept has a longstanding history, some recent developments have given greater urgency to employment of the term.