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Steven Threadgold

Steven Threadgold is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Newcastle. His research focuses on youth and class, with particular interests in unequal and alternate work and career trajectories, underground and independent creative scenes, and cultural formations of taste. Steve is Co-Director of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network, an Associate Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, and on the editorial boards of The Sociological Review and Journal of Applied Youth Studies. His books include Class in Australia and  Bourdieu and Affect: Towards a Theory of Affective Affinities. Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles won the 2020 Raewyn Connell Prize for best first book in Australian sociology.


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  • Class in Australia

    Steven Threadgold and Jessica Gerrard

Events

  • Mount Beauty Writers Festival

    Mount Beauty Community Centre Kiewa Cres, Mount Beauty, VIC, Australia

    Mount Beauty Writers Festival ABOUT Everyone has a story ... Come and enjoy the stories of award winning authors in the picturesque Alpine setting of Mount Beauty, awarded Tourism Victoria's...

  • Richard King at Totally Lit (WA)

    Fremantle Prison Enter via Main Gatehouse, 1 The Terrace, Fremantle, WA

    How is technology shaping the crime and law enforcement landscape? Best-selling crime fiction author Alan Carter and Assistant Police Commissioner Arlene Mavratsou share the stage with writer and academic Richard...

  • Elise Stephenson at Blue Door Books – YASS

    Blue Door Books 135 Comur St, Yass, NSW

    Join us for an unforgettable afternoon with Dr Elise Stephenson author of the brilliant 'Space XX'. After leading world first research Dr Elise Stephenson shares a story of the space...

  • Author Talk: The Remarkable Greig Sisters by Iola Mathews

    RHSV 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    The Greig sisters arrived in Melbourne in 1889 in search of a university education. Jane and Janet would be among the first women doctors in Australia, and Flos became the...