Sal Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3861772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sal Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sal |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9639-5400 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“It Turns Theories into Realities”
This article investigates the pedagogical value of short-term international mobility programs, focusing on a 2024 sociological study tour to Indonesia. Using a dialogical autoethnographic approach that incorporates both student and teacher reflections, we examine how immersive study tours, often dismissed as academically shallow or exploitative, can foster transformative learning. Through cultural immersion, students are challenged to apply erstw…
Reconfiguring the Family
For queer individuals, families of origin have been historically represented as sites of exclusion and violence, where there is an implied binary opposition between "families of origin" and "families of choice." Such framings (re)produce the idea that families of choice, particularly in the "west," follow a neat, linear path of becoming that begins only after rejection by the family of origin as an a priori event. Drawing on qualitative interview…
Every snowflake is different, and every person is different’
This paper outlines the ways that 32 (so-called) ‘Australian’ nonbinary people imagine gender utopia. For this group of nonbinary people, most imagined a gender utopia to be one where gender as a form of social categorization and stratification was either no longer a feature, or less of a defining feature of selves, relationality or society. This perspective is at odds with a rising number of critics who suggest that nonbinary is collapsing into …
A scoping review of non‐binary research in “Australian” social sciences
Non‐binary and genderqueer identities are increasingly discussed in public discourse and academia, but there remains a dearth of academic literature centred on non‐binary people's lives and experiences. When non‐binary people are included in research, it is frequently as an additive to explorations of trans identities and subsumed under the trans umbrella or treated as categorically indistinct. Much has been written from a clinical perspective, b…
How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families
This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings. We analyse the normative frameworks that underpin the Census questionnaire, through tools such a straight washing data (re‐categorising non‐binary in…
The “good refugee” ideal
While “good refugee” stories have the potential to soften attitudes toward forcibly displaced people, there are hidden implications associated with this construct that must be considered. Based on 60 qualitative interviews with asylum seekers and refugees, this paper examines the ways forced migrants adopt and reproduce “good refugee” discourses that unintentionally position their belonging as contingent upon upholding narrowly defined, and arbit…
Antifeminist, manosphere and right-wing extremist sentiment among men who use domestic and family violence
Contested worldmaking from 'above' and 'below
Based on extensive field research with forced migrants who are living precarious lives in Indonesia while their refugee claims are assessed by UNHCR, the following article considers both the political construction and maintenance of so-called asylum-seeker ‘transit’ countries and the everyday experiences of forced migrants immobilised within them. In doing so, the article draws attention to the worldmaking power of borders and bordering practices…
Gender, Sex and Freedom
Many Global North contexts are experiencing conflict in feminist discourses between supporters of trans and gender diverse self-identification and self-proclaimed 'gender critical' feminists who consider this to undermine feminist goals. We argue that the channelling of contemporary feminist discourse into defensive and oppositional channels has foreclosed the space for more nuanced and future-oriented, utopian thought around freedom from sex/gen…
Media Discourses on Asylum-Seeker Policy During the Rudd Era
This article charts the evolution of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s (2007–2010) asylum-seeker policies alongside contemporaneous media narratives from two major Australian newspapers, the Age and the Australian. While initially successful, Rudd eventually abandoned his progressive approach to asylum, due in part to mounting pressure precipitated by a sharp increase in the number of irregular maritime arrivals occurring under his watch. While …
Seeking Asylum
This article explores factors driving irregular migration from Indonesia to Australia from 2008–2013. During this time Australia witnessed an increase in the number of onshore asylum-seekers arriving from Indonesia with the assistance of people smugglers. In Australia this phenomenon was seen as a consequence of the Government’s dismantling of hard-line border security policies implemented by its predecessor. However, this framing obfuscated the …
The “good refugee” ideal
While “good refugee” stories have the potential to soften attitudes toward forcibly displaced people, there are hidden implications associated with this construct that must be considered. Based on 60 qualitative interviews with asylum seekers and refugees, this paper examines the ways forced migrants adopt and reproduce “good refugee” discourses that unintentionally position their belonging as contingent upon upholding narrowly defined, and arbit…
Gender, Sex and Freedom
Many Global North contexts are experiencing conflict in feminist discourses between supporters of trans and gender diverse self-identification and self-proclaimed 'gender critical' feminists who consider this to undermine feminist goals. We argue that the channelling of contemporary feminist discourse into defensive and oppositional channels has foreclosed the space for more nuanced and future-oriented, utopian thought around freedom from sex/gen…
How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families
This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings. We analyse the normative frameworks that underpin the Census questionnaire, through tools such a straight washing data (re‐categorising non‐binary in…
Seeking Asylum
This article explores factors driving irregular migration from Indonesia to Australia from 2008–2013. During this time Australia witnessed an increase in the number of onshore asylum-seekers arriving from Indonesia with the assistance of people smugglers. In Australia this phenomenon was seen as a consequence of the Government’s dismantling of hard-line border security policies implemented by its predecessor. However, this framing obfuscated the …
Antifeminist, manosphere and right-wing extremist sentiment among men who use domestic and family violence
Contested worldmaking from 'above' and 'below
Based on extensive field research with forced migrants who are living precarious lives in Indonesia while their refugee claims are assessed by UNHCR, the following article considers both the political construction and maintenance of so-called asylum-seeker ‘transit’ countries and the everyday experiences of forced migrants immobilised within them. In doing so, the article draws attention to the worldmaking power of borders and bordering practices…
Media Discourses on Asylum-Seeker Policy During the Rudd Era
This article charts the evolution of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s (2007–2010) asylum-seeker policies alongside contemporaneous media narratives from two major Australian newspapers, the Age and the Australian. While initially successful, Rudd eventually abandoned his progressive approach to asylum, due in part to mounting pressure precipitated by a sharp increase in the number of irregular maritime arrivals occurring under his watch. While …
Seeking Asylum
This article explores factors driving irregular migration from Indonesia to Australia from 2008–2013. During this time Australia witnessed an increase in the number of onshore asylum-seekers arriving from Indonesia with the assistance of people smugglers. In Australia this phenomenon was seen as a consequence of the Government’s dismantling of hard-line border security policies implemented by its predecessor. However, this framing obfuscated the …
Media Discourses on Asylum-Seeker Policy During the Rudd Era
This article charts the evolution of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s (2007–2010) asylum-seeker policies alongside contemporaneous media narratives from two major Australian newspapers, the Age and the Australian. While initially successful, Rudd eventually abandoned his progressive approach to asylum, due in part to mounting pressure precipitated by a sharp increase in the number of irregular maritime arrivals occurring under his watch. While …
Contested worldmaking from 'above' and 'below
Based on extensive field research with forced migrants who are living precarious lives in Indonesia while their refugee claims are assessed by UNHCR, the following article considers both the political construction and maintenance of so-called asylum-seeker ‘transit’ countries and the everyday experiences of forced migrants immobilised within them. In doing so, the article draws attention to the worldmaking power of borders and bordering practices…
Gender, Sex and Freedom
Many Global North contexts are experiencing conflict in feminist discourses between supporters of trans and gender diverse self-identification and self-proclaimed 'gender critical' feminists who consider this to undermine feminist goals. We argue that the channelling of contemporary feminist discourse into defensive and oppositional channels has foreclosed the space for more nuanced and future-oriented, utopian thought around freedom from sex/gen…
The “good refugee” ideal
While “good refugee” stories have the potential to soften attitudes toward forcibly displaced people, there are hidden implications associated with this construct that must be considered. Based on 60 qualitative interviews with asylum seekers and refugees, this paper examines the ways forced migrants adopt and reproduce “good refugee” discourses that unintentionally position their belonging as contingent upon upholding narrowly defined, and arbit…
Antifeminist, manosphere and right-wing extremist sentiment among men who use domestic and family violence
A scoping review of non‐binary research in “Australian” social sciences
Non‐binary and genderqueer identities are increasingly discussed in public discourse and academia, but there remains a dearth of academic literature centred on non‐binary people's lives and experiences. When non‐binary people are included in research, it is frequently as an additive to explorations of trans identities and subsumed under the trans umbrella or treated as categorically indistinct. Much has been written from a clinical perspective, b…
How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families
This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings. We analyse the normative frameworks that underpin the Census questionnaire, through tools such a straight washing data (re‐categorising non‐binary in…
“It Turns Theories into Realities”
This article investigates the pedagogical value of short-term international mobility programs, focusing on a 2024 sociological study tour to Indonesia. Using a dialogical autoethnographic approach that incorporates both student and teacher reflections, we examine how immersive study tours, often dismissed as academically shallow or exploitative, can foster transformative learning. Through cultural immersion, students are challenged to apply erstw…
Reconfiguring the Family
For queer individuals, families of origin have been historically represented as sites of exclusion and violence, where there is an implied binary opposition between "families of origin" and "families of choice." Such framings (re)produce the idea that families of choice, particularly in the "west," follow a neat, linear path of becoming that begins only after rejection by the family of origin as an a priori event. Drawing on qualitative interview…
Every snowflake is different, and every person is different’
This paper outlines the ways that 32 (so-called) ‘Australian’ nonbinary people imagine gender utopia. For this group of nonbinary people, most imagined a gender utopia to be one where gender as a form of social categorization and stratification was either no longer a feature, or less of a defining feature of selves, relationality or society. This perspective is at odds with a rising number of critics who suggest that nonbinary is collapsing into …
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Project commissioning (4 works) · Publishing (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works)