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The School of Social Sciences and Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) are seeking a Research Fellow to join the ARC Research Hub for Value-Added Processing of Underutilised Carbon Waste. This role will contribute to the project “Building social and policy support for upcycling and the circular economy ecosystem” The sub-projects are ‘Building public trust in upcycling’ and ‘Designing upcycling business ecosystems’.

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This chapter represents an exploration in the sociology of sociology, applying the methodology of the sociology of knowledge. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 187 Australian sociologists and Ludwik Fleck's conceptual tools of thought styles and thought collectives, three distinct thought styles within the sociological community are revealed. Each is associated with participation in a specific thought collective, which may or may not be in harmony with the dominant thought styles of their peers or the broader community. The analysis reveals aspects of sociologists’ lives that have a distinct bearing on the way they understand and analyse the world, the theories they select, and the methodological choices they make. It shows the diversity of socio-political views and epistemological approaches among sociologists, which form distinct lines of cleavage within the sociological community. While diversity in sociological thought and practice is in many ways beneficial, its presence has implications for the discipline, for the sociologists themselves, for their students, and for the sociological knowledge that is produced.

Since the early 20th century, the sociology of knowledge as a field of intellectual endeavour, and as an institution, has been regularly examined by sociologists intrigued by its historical changes. In this chapter, a selected sample of recent historiographies reveals how the field has changed since its establishment as a legitimate arena of endeavour. The sociology of knowledge is shown to have altered its focus several times over the decades, re-examining past problems, developing new questions, and expanding into new areas. Each of the texts offers a typology of this history, analysing observed changes in approach and content, and variously assessing each period of scholarship in the sociology of knowledge as a stage of ‘health’, ‘revival’, ‘decline’, or ‘stagnation’. When the typologies are compared, significant variation can be found, even though each is apparently describing the ‘same history’. Analysis indicates that the process of writing a history and composing a typology of the field's major shifts is contingent upon the temporal, socio-political-geographical location of the historiographer, their theoretical framework, and whether they conceive the sociology of knowledge to be a disciplinary speciality or a field with a specific methodology.

Culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) communities are disproportionately affected by health disparities in Australia. An important political strategy to address these disparities is to increase CaLD representation in leadership roles within Australian health system. In this paper, we examine how certain members of CaLD communities occupy these representative roles in the Australian health system. Using the lens of intersectionality, we dissect the privileged yet simultaneously marginalised positions they occupy as ‘CaLD elite actors’ representing their diverse communities. We describe Australia’s assimilationist political environment as an important context that influences the formation of three categories of CaLD representation within the health system: ethnic councils, health consumers and multicultural health workforce. Then we draw on our positionalities as CaLD elite actors in relation to Asian-born gay men in Australian HIV sector to highlight the significant limitations with the narrow focus on representation as a political strategy. Instead of situating representation as an objective, we propose that representation should be considered a continuous process of power-sharing and reflexivity for CaLD elite actors and wider Australian health system.