Recent Member Publications

If you are a SAANZ member and have a recent publication, email online@saanz.net with the details. Members’ names are in bold.


Birch, O., Adams, P., Cohen, B., & Newcombe, D. (2025). The Autonomy Paradox and Performing Dependence—Responsibility and Resistance at an Opioid Substitution Treatment Service. Contemporary Drug Problems, 0(0).

Birch, O., Adams, P., Cohen, B., & Newcombe, D. (2026). Me, myself, and IE: Describing the actualities of undertaking institutional ethnography. Social Theory & Health, 24(4).

Chubb, L. A., Nickels, H., Beddoe, L., Guild, G., & Joy, E. (2025). Supporting choice, preventing harm: Social workers’ knowledge gaps and ethical challenges with assisted dying in Aotearoa New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 37(2), 77-92.

Cohen, B. M. (2026). Culture and Society: A Critical Introduction. Springer Nature.

Cohen, B., Harbusch, M., & Reichertz, J. (Eds.). (2026). Addiction and the medicalisation of conspicuous behaviour: New critical perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.

Davis, A. (2026). Housing policy and political discourse in Aotearoa-New Zealand: a media sociology and news sources perspective. Housing Studies41(6), 1446–1465.

Davis, P. (Ed.). (2026). Facing up to our future: Challenges and choices for New Zealand. Dunmore Publishing.

Friedlander, A., Thorpe, H., Nelson, M., & Gibbons, A. (2026). Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue: Sport, Menstrual Tracking Apps and More-Than-Hormonal Bodies. Qualitative Inquiry, 32(3-4), 298-310.

Gibbons, A. E., Pedlar, C., Varner, H. K. et. al (2024). Moving from ethnic exclusions to cultural safety: how is athlete ethnicity discussed in research on menstrual health in sports? A scoping review. British Journal of Sports Medicine, Published Online First. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2023-107449

Gibbons, A., Thorpe, H., Hemi, K. V., Bruinvels, G., Pedlar, C., & Hamilton, B. (2025). “My menstruation journey in sport was sad and lonely”: The menstruation experiences of Pacific sports women in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 0(0).

Howland, P. J. (Ed.). (2025). Time and Alcohol: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere!. Taylor & Francis.

Ibeka, V. (2025). “I don’t really feel a big difference between an international and the locals”: Exploring educational migrants’ experience of New Zealand as a study and migration destination. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 34(4), 631-652.

Ireland-Blake, N., Cram, F., Dew, K., Bacharach, S., Snelling, J., Stone, P., … & Filoche, S. (2025). “Knowledge was clearly associated with education.” epistemic positioning in the context of informed choice: a scoping review and secondary qualitative analysis. BMC medical ethics, 26(1), 1.

Jones, G., & Cohen, B. (2025). Sentencing the ‘Psychopath’: How Labelling Affects Judges’ Decision Making in Aotearoa/New Zealand. New Zealand Sociology, 40(2), 1-15.

Kamran, R., & Burns, E. A. (2025). Getting behind workplace bullying of women academics and professional women in Pakistan’s universities and corporations. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 26(4), 637-649.

Matthews, K. R., Bond, S., & Nairn, K. (2025). Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand. Social Movement Studies, 1-18.

Matthews, K. R., Kidman, J., Bond, S., & Nairn, K. (2026). How does settler-colonialism problematise the concepts of infrastructure and sabotage? Insights from debates about the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa. Human Geography, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786261420800

McMillan, C. (2025). A Crisis of (Environmental) Imagination: Sport and the Limits to Environmental Action in Aotearoa New Zealand. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 1-19.

McMillan, C. (2025). Sustainable Symptoms: Olympism, Air Transportation, and Fetishistic Disavowal. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 01937235251327102.

McMillan, C. (2026). A mediated collision: nationalism, mediacricket, and Indian cricketing hegemony. Sport in Society, 1-15.

McMillan, C. (2025). Sustaining the unsustainable: FIFA 2026, the climate crisis, and fetishistic disavowal. Capitalism Nature Socialism. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2026.2660078

Mills, A., Low, G., & Lindsay Latimer, C. (2026). Barriers and Limitations of Employment in Desistance: Exploring the Experiences of Men Leaving Prison in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 70(1), 104-124.

Murdoch, C. and Lamusse, T. (2026). ‘If they can’t see a punishment, they’re not happy’: Punitive Attitudes as Barriers to Restorative Practice in New Zealand Schools. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 21(2), 1-12.

Nazari, H., Oleson, J. C., & De Haan, I. (2025). Socioeconomic Status and Child Maltreatment: A Critical Literature Review. Social Sciences, 14(6), 331.

Nelson, M. (2025). Stronger together: Towards constructive conversations about strength differences, gender, and sex. Sport, Education and Society, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2024.2338401

Nelson, M., Thorpe, H., Wheaton, B., Clarke, G. H., & Sims, S. (2026). Eternal Wound, Performance Enhancement, or Minor Inconvenience?: Managing the Menstrual Cycle in Olympic Weightlifting. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723526142437

Nelson, M., Thorpe, H., Wheaton, B., Clarke, G. H., & Sims, S. (2025). Equal to, different from, better than: The multiple bodies of women Olympic Weightlifters. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902251385612

Nelson, M., Thorpe, H., Wheaton, B., Clarke, G. H., & Sims, S. (2026). Mapping un/contested knowledge of sex/gender in high performance sport: Applying Actor-Network Theory to women’s Olympic Weightlifting. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 18(2), 210–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2025.2578839

Oosterman, J. (2026). Understanding climate action: An integrative framework [Doctoral thesis, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington]. https://doi.org/10.26686/24d2-s02x

Rankine, M., Beddoe, L., Weld, N., & Davys, A. (2025). Supervisors as the beacons of hope in the “new normal”: the opportunities and lessons learned. The Clinical Supervisor, 1-24.

Rocha, Z. L. (2025). “ … soul food or Indian food, depending on what spices you chose”: theoretical synergies, mixedness and decolonial approaches to critical mixed race studies. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2598398

Salman, S. (2026). ‘We Are Not Freeloaders:’ Harmful Welfare Narratives and Counter-Narratives Among Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261457647

Singh, S. (2025). NEGOTIATION AND AGENCY: HOW DO WOMEN JOURNALISTS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA NAVIGATE GENDERED PRESSURES? New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 27(1), 73–94.

Uekusa, S., Barnard, T., Allen, J., Stephens, C., Alpass, F., Matthewman, S., Phibbs, S., & Tamaira, M. (2025). Beyond hardships: Resilience, opportunities and positive experiences of older informal caregivers in Aotearoa New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Gerontological Social Work. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2025.2539742

Wood, B. E. and Hughson, T. (2026). A framework for analysis of curriculum pendulum swings: Comparing curriculum reform in England, Wales, and New Zealand. The Curriculum Journal, 37(2), 390–404.

Young, J. E., Lyons, A. C., Dew, K., & Egan, R. (2026). Is there a right time to die? How patients, families and assisted dying providers decide on and anticipate a date with death. Death Studies, 50(1), 103–115. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2414277

Zeng, Z., & Cohen, B. M. (2026). The SK Group Scandal and Systemic Corporate Crime: Structural, Institutional, and Cultural Logics in South Korea’s Chaebol System. Asian Journal of Criminology, 21(1), 18.