RECENT SELECTED INTERVIEWS & PRESENTATIONS
Academic Interviews
Pitti.,I., 2025, Interview with Judith Bessant in Pitti.,I., and Mengilli, Y., 2025, Gender in Youth Participation: Practices and Cultures, Societa , Mutament to Politicia Revista Italiana Di Sociologoa , Vol, 16, No 31: 125-130 doi: 10.36253/smp-16658 https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/smp/issue/view/667/297
2025
Bessant,J., Collin, P., O’Keeffe, P., Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth, Edward Elgar https:www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/an-interview-with-judith-bessant-philippa-collin-and-patrick-okeeffe-about-their-edited-collection-research-handbook-on-the-sociology-of-youth.html
2024
Recent Selected Presentations
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Where are the boys and young men? Gender difference and climate action, the cases of 'Ride-out' and Dumpster Diving, Melbourne, Australia
2025
Strategic litigation, Law Reform and Young people, Newcastle Youth Studies Centre seminar, University of Newcastle, Australia
2025
‘How Can Youth Research Help Change the World?’ Seminar, Western Sydney University, Australia
2025
‘Criminalising climate justice politics in a planetary crisis: Australian liberal democracy, 2014-2025’. Deliberalization of Democracies? Understanding Regression of Rights and the Criminalization of Struggles for Rights in the Global South & North, May 2025, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Avenida UniversidadOñati, Gipuzkoa, Spain
2025
‘A post Anthropocentric imaginary and policies for young people’ with Collin, P. and Catanzaro, M. Presidential Session: Cultures, Transitions, Identities and Politics – Intersecting Approaches in Youth Studies, 6–11 July, 5th ISA Forum of Sociology
2025
‘Action for intergenerational climate justice in the Anthropocene: assemblies, carbon budgets and legal options’, with Prost, A and Watts, R., 5th International Sociological Association, Rabat, Morocco
2025
‘Student carnivale: political humour and satire in Australia’s School Strike for Climate Movement’, European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2024
‘Are we seeing a post Anthropocentric ontology? Young people’s political participation’, APA sponsored, Young People and Politics Workshop, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
2024
‘Youthful subjectivities and prospects of a post Anthropocentric social imaginary’. International Conference: Socio-Political Engagements & Youth Activisms, National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain
2024
‘Reimagining democracy? Young people’s activism and political imaginaries, and the (im)possibilities of political change’, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
2024
‘COVID in the Anthropocene: young people and the resuscitation of politics’. European Sociological Association, Sardinia, Italy
2023
‘Nothing more practical than a good theory’ and ‘Channelling Touraine: solidarity research and young climate activists’. ISA World Congress of Sociology
2023
Climate Change Action Research with Watts, R.., The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61S-sUksrsg
2023
‘“Blah, blah, blah … [not] business as usual”: young female leaders in climate change action’, with P. Collin and R. Watts. The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Melbourne, Australia
2022
Seminar, Global South Studies, Representations of young people and neoliberal developmentalism in the Global South, Cape Town, South Africa
2022
‘Raging bulls and fearless girls: the participatory condition and changing political relations’. Australian Political Studies Association Conference
2021
‘Young people’s politics, protest and social movements: When students protest’, with Mejia Mesinas, A. and Pickard, S. Political Studies SA Annual International Conference
2021
The great transformation and future of work’, Human Sciences Research Council Policy and Research Agency, Cape Town, South Africa, http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en
2020