Professor Judith Bessant
Professor. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Email: Judith.Bessant@rmit.edu.au
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.