Tara Brabazon podcast

How did the Global Financial Crisis impact on our understandings of social relationships and identity? Has foreclosure become a 'global condition'? Tara and Steve probe the concept of foreclosure and its relevance to theoretical times.

Why are methods so boring in the contemporary university? How can the theories of method be enlivened and enlivening in the humanities and social sciences? Steve and Tara translate and transform Paul Virilio's Bunker Archaeology to develop a new way of thinking about space, identity, ethnography and surveillance.

Does sociology have a future? How does the discipline - and the scholars within it - manage neo-liberalism, xenophobia, terrorism and gated communities? Steve and Tara explore the concept of 'claustropolitan sociology' as part of their 'Theoretical times' series.

Explore strategies for successful academic research planning, navigating challenges in research publication for early career researchers, embracing resilience in academic feedback handling, and overcoming obstacles as mid-career researchers. Discover the importance of mentorship, personal timelines, and creative inspiration in shaping research work.

Tara introduces an assignment exploring the role of food in art. The image is titled "Mary, egg and croissant" and was photographed by William Klein. The image is located at these urls: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/30117891231012175/ andhttps://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-F-2005-107-360

Steve, Tara and Mick review Mick's endorsement of candidature event. They explore why it was so successful, offering strategies for other doctoral students who follow him.

We need - right now - a complex and intricate theorization of power and the state. Louis Althusser provides scholars and citizens with that theorization. Steve and Tara, in this sixth podcast in Theoretical Times, discuss Louis Althusser and why he is returning to intellectual fashion.

How do we align and enhance conventional scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledges? Nicholas Ruddell has taken on this challenge for his PhD. His goal is to help students and teachers align and combine world views to create an intellectual environment of excitement, motivation, knowledge and social justice.

What role should early childhood educators hold in play? Tara talks with Kelly Tribolet about how to increase the movement, confidence and skill of children as they move their bodies through space.

Anne has entered the analogue and digital archive to follow the traces of Terence Johnson. Most famous for his book Professions and Power, Anne is exploring with Tara and Steve how much of this sociologist's career has survived in the present.