Over the past decade there has been resurgence of interest in Sacks’ work on membership categories under the heading of Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA). This recent increase in interest has resulted in an expansion, rapid take up and development of Sacks’ ideas through the increasing cumulative body of work which now underpins MCA research. While maintaining a commitment to recovering the social cultural recourses people use in their everyday interactions recent engagement and development of Sacks’ ideas has seen MCA move beyond the original sociological focus to be taken up in areas such as communication, psychology, discourse analysis, linguistics, media studies, anthropology and political science.

The proposed collection seeks to capture and promote the growing interest in Membership Categorisation Analysis applied to the situated study of social-knowledge-in-action in a multidisciplinary contexts. To this end we are inviting papers that explore current developments and applications of MCA through multidisciplinary areas and a range of topical foci as well as exploring the methodological developments which take account of the multiple layers of category work and orientations, the display of social knowledge and knowledge entitlement, the organisation of moral ordering, the deployment of social norms and the orientation to interactional context.

At this stage we are inviting expressions of interest to this collection through submitting a 500 word outline of proposed papers. The due date for the abstracts is Monday 30th January 2012.
Expressions of Interest or further questions should be sent to: Richard Fitzgerald at r.fitzgerald [at] uq.edu.au.