Professor Judith Bessant

Profile

Professor Judith Bessant is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and a Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne. Australia. She writes on politics, youth studies, policy, sociology, media-technology studies and history, and advises governments and non- government organizations.

Research

Publications

Recent Books

• Making-Up People: Youth, Truth and Politics, Routledge, 2021 

Edited books

• When Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools, Vol.1
• When Students Protest: Universities in Global South Vol.2
• When Students Protest: Universities in Global North, Vol.3
• The Rise of the Far-Right: Technologies of Recruitment & Mobilization, Rowman & Littlefield

Chapters

• Representations of Young People and Neoliberal Developmentalism in the Global South in Swartz, S., et.al (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies, OUP
• The Criminalisation of Solidarity: Asylum Seekers and Australia’s Illiberal Democracy, in Donatella della Porta & Elias Steinhilper (eds) Contentious Politics of Migrant Solidarity: Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation, Routledge. 

Expertise