Conference of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand conference 22 to 24 November 2016 Hosted by Massey University Venue: East Pier Hotel, Napier, New Zealand (Cover art work: Fiona Clark, Massey University student) Welcome Dear conference attendee Welcome to the 2016 conference of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ), hosted by Massey University. We sincerely hope that you enjoy this conference, and all that the conference venue – this year in Ahuriri, Napier - has to offer. If this is your first time attending a SAANZ conference then we would like to extend a particularly warm welcome to you. The conference this year has a very heartening number of students in attendance, making up around one third of the numbers overall. We also have a number of individuals that are not based in tertiary institutions; it is great to see interest in this conference stretching beyond academia. It is great to see all the familiar faces as well. We hope that everyone’s time here is interesting, pleasurable, motivating and productive. Finally, we would like to thank our sponsors: The Royal Society of New Zealand, the Sociology Association of New Zealand, and the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University. Yours sincerely, Conference organising committee If you have any urgent queries, please contact Corrina on 0278488659. Conference Theme Imagined futures: sociology, science and the arts Utopian hopes and dystopian fears surrounding scientific and technological solutions to human problems run deep. These are not new impulses and neither is their critique, by either sociological or other activist communities. The current situation presents an entanglement of problems, and a deeply moral challenge to how we might respond to pressing problems including the mass refugee crises, extreme economic inequities and instabilities, invasive political-military surveillance regimes, persistent eco-climatic crises with local and global import and the continued enslavement of the environment, people and animals. With the 2016 SAANZ Annual Conference we aim to interrogate these propensities and the numerous critiques generated in response. What are our imagined futures? With what sort of normative and disruptive intent do and can we interrogate scientific and technological solutions to human problems? What forms of organization are presupposed for the transfer of research findings into transformative social interventions? What kinds of subjectivity and collectivity are assumed as necessary for the success of inquiry and intervention? What kinds of leadership and subordination do they also presuppose? Conference Programme - Overview Tuesday 22 November 12.30 to 1pm: Registrations open. 1 to 5.30pm: Postgraduate workshops. Port room. 6pm onwards: Informal welcome drinks and student 2-minute thesis prize. Speights Ale House. Wednesday 23 November 8.30am: Registrations open. 9 to 9.15am: Conference welcome. Ocean Suite. 9.15 to 10.30am: Panel session - Situating the Social in Science. Ocean Suite. 10.30 to 11am: Morning tea. 11am to 12pm: Keynote: Hon Steve Maharey – Really useful knowledge: what does sociology have to offer in the 21st century? Ocean Suite. 12 to 12.45pm: Lunch 12.45 to 2.30pm: Parallel session 1 2.30 to 3pm: Afternoon tea. 3 to 4.45pm: Parallel session 2 4.45 to 5.45pm: SAANZ AGM 2016. Backwater room. 5.30 to 6.30pm: Pre-dinner social drinks. East Pier Hotel. 6.30pm onwards: Conference dinner, student essay and abstract prizes. East Pier Hotel. Thursday 24 November 8.30am: Registration opens. 9 to 10.30am: Postgraduate panel: What does the sociology discipline need to become? Ocean Suite A. Chair: Michael Carolan. 10.30 to 11am: Morning Tea. 11 to 12pm: Keynote: Prof Michael Carolan – Distributive Imaginaries: climate change, food, and the possibilities made real through anticipatory action. Ocean Suite. 12 to 12.45pm: Lunch. 12.45 to 2.30pm: Parallel session 3 2.30 to 3pm: Afternoon tea. 3 to 4.45pm: Parallel session 4 4.45 to 5pm: Conference round-up and reflections. 5pm: Conference closes. Friday 25 November Field trips 9.30am to 5pm: Classic full day wine tour. Departs East Pier Hotel at 9.30am 10am: Art deco walking tour. Departs from the iSite visitor information centre (Marine Parade, Napier) 1 to 5pm: Classic wine tour. Departs East Pier Hotel at 1pm. Conference Programme – full details Tuesday 22nd November 12.30 - 1pm: Registration open Postgraduate workshops (Port Room) 1pm - 2pm: Strategies for postgrad life – an interactive discussion that includes topics such as keeping on track, self-care, staying connected with others, and imposter syndrome. 2 – 2.15pm: Short Break 2.15 – 3.15pm: Discussion group(s) on thesis writing focusing on ‘Finding the Golden thread’ – the central argument of your thesis that connects all the ideas of your thesis and makes it cohesive 3.15 – 3.45pm: Afternoon Tea 3.45 – 5.30pm: Two minute thesis competition. 6pm: Informal Welcome drinks and Two Minute thesis prize award (Speights Ale House) Wednesday 23rd November 8.30am: Registration open 9 – 9.15am: Conference welcome (Ocean Suite) 9.15 – 10.30am: Panel Session – Situating the social sciences (Ocean Suite) Panellists: April Bennett; Mike Joy; and Nicola Gaston. Chair: Peter Howland. 10.30 – 11am: Morning tea 11am – 12pm: Keynote: Hon Steve Maharey – Really useful knowledge: what does sociology have to offer in the 21st century (Ocean Suite). Chair: Paul Perry. 12 – 12.45pm: Lunch 12.45 – 2.30pm: Parallel Session 1 Radical Politics Sex and sexuality Māori Environment and Ocean Suite A Ocean Suite B Backwater Room Governance Chair: Peter Howland Chair: Johanna Chair: April Bennett Port Room Schmidt Chair: Mary Murray Reclaiming the The narratives of Kōrero, whakaahua, Enrolling the future and extreme: Badiou, trafficked female me waiata: exploring modelling consensus: a communization, and migrants in government the social, cultural and co-production critique political struggle today. protection shelter health benefits of of Canterbury’s water Dylan Taylor. Home 5 – exploration whanau initiatives management reforms of the rescue process through stories, to regulate diffuse and protective custody photographs and song. agricultural pollution. of trafficked women. Angelique Reweti. Ronlyn Duncan Haezreena Begum Abdul Hamid. The revaluation of all Fair(?) and lovely: A Kaupapa Māori The environmental and values: extremism, the conversations on critique of the data-as- political values, ultra-left, and morality. beauty and non-beauty gift principle. Kiri practices and views of Chamsy el-Ojeili. among young migrant West-McGruer environmentally women in Chennai, conscientious New India. Josephine Zealanders. Corrina Varghese. Tucker. Silenced and ‘My [asexuality] is The intermingling of Beans, corn and social recuperated: political playing hell with my blackness and control in community philosophy and socio- dating life’: negotiating indigeneity in settler gardens. Virginia political action of the asexuality, romance, colonialism: a critical Webb. Black Panther Party. relationships and look into the United Maja Curcic & Marko intimacy. Tiina Vares. States and New Galic. Zealand racial formations. Kandyce Anderson. Taking stock of ‘If I hadn’t spoken to Māori responsiveness: Implications of recent counterhegemonic you I would have taken the story of a policy changes to the infrastructure. Warwick these experiences to ‘transformational New Zealand Tie. my grave’; oral history project’. Part Two. Emissions Trading and homosexuality in Carina Meares. Scheme. Daniel China. Heather Worth. Rimmer. The University as The cotton ceiling and Successes and pitfalls: Large infrastructure Neoliberal Dystopia: the ghost penis: sex, the “I, Too, Am projects and the Confused mission, sexual orientation and Auckland” social media sociology of critique. Romanita, and a transwoman’s body. campaign. David Morgan Hamlin. Atavistic Religion. Hannah Rossiter. Mayeda. Michael McKinley. 2.30 – 3pm: Afternoon tea 3 – 4.45pm: Parallel Session 2 Neoliberal Spaces Gender and Sex Migration Animals Ocean Suite A Ocean Suite B Backwater Room Port Room Chair: Warwick Tie Chair: Stella Pennell Chair: Trudie Cain Chair: Vivienne Elizabeth Arts and excess: Paid sex in the Pacific: Tensions, memories, Not enough feathers revaluing thought as positions and practices. and the need for flying! Andrea waste. Paloma Ozier. Karen McMillan. national cohesion: will Crampton, Angela T. suffering in common Ragusa & Helen unify? Judy Hemming Mastermann-Smith. & Nawal El-Gack. The inequality of Searching for the good Leaving politics Representations of inequality. David life. Agnete behind? National animal death in the Gaylard. Gundersen. identity and New New Zealand media. Zealand expatriate Mary Murray and organizations in Michael Morris. London. Louise Humpage. Winners and Losers: ‘Turbulent Ideological conflict Towards the how neoliberal relationship[s]’ and within the asylum Development of an globalisation intensifies ‘brave and right’ seeker debate: a International Animal uneven development. outcomes: newspaper critical analysis. Ruby Cruelty Index. Robert Brendan Madley. accounts of women O’Connor Picciotio, Michael who kill in the context Morris and Mary of family violence. Murray. Marita Leask. Wine, utopia and the A critical textual Putting things right or Infrastructure and globalizing middle- analysis of Aotearoa shutting down debate? ethics: the role of classes. Peter New Zealand Analysing the Creative NZ in the Howland. government policy