Professor Judith BessantProfessor. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Email: Judith.Bessant@rmit.edu.auProfilePublicationsExpertiseProfileProfessor 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.ResearchPublicationsRecent 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. ExpertisePolitics, policy studies, youth studies, anthropology, technology-communications,