Associate Professor Anita Harris
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Email: Anita.Harris@monash.edu
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Anita Harris is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Political and Social Inquiry.
Research
Anita Harris is an ARC Future Fellow undertaking a project entitled ‘Young People and Social Inclusion in the Multicultural City’, which looks at young people’s everyday forms of living with cultural difference in Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Johannesburg and Prato. She also has an ARC Discovery Project (2011-2013) on ‘The Civic Life of Young Australian Muslims: Active Citizenship, Community Belonging and Social Inclusion’. Anita returned to Monash in February 2011 after undertaking a Mid-Career Research Fellowship at the University of Queensland, where she was also Deputy Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies. From 2002 she has held a teaching and research position in Sociology at Monash. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral fellowship in Women’s Studies at Monash, and a lecturer in Women’s Studies at Deakin. Her research interests include youth identities and cultures; citizenship, participation and new politics, and globalisation and multiculturalism, and she is best known as a leader in the interdisciplinary field of girls’ studies. She has recently completed an ARC Discovery project on young people’s emergent practices of political engagement and civic connection (2005-2009; with Johanna Wyn, University of Melbourne).
Her books include Unsettled Places: Young People and Multicultural Belonging (Routledge, forthcoming); Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism (edited, Routledge, 2008); Young Femininity: Girlhood, Power and Social Change (with Sinikka Aapola and Marnina Gonick, Palgrave, 2005); Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty First Century, (Routledge, 2004); and All About the Girl: Culture, Power and Identity (edited, Routledge, 2004). Anita regularly gives invited keynotes and presentations and is an international assessor for the UK Economic and Social Research Council. She is a member of international advisory boards for the European Commission FP7 project ‘Processes influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation’, the International Journal of Girlhood Studies and Youth Studies Australia. She is interested in the impact of globalisation and de-industrialisation on contemporary constructions and experiences of youth and welcomes inquiries from higher degree by research students.
Publications
Books
Unsettled Places: Young People and Multicultural Belonging. New York and London:Routledge, Forthcoming
Young Femininity: Girlhood, Power and Social Change. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (With Sinikka Aapola and Marnina Gonick).
Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty First Century. New York and London: Routledge, 2004
Edited books
Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism. London and New York: Routledge, 2008.
All About the Girl: Culture, Power and Identity. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
Refereed Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings
‘Mind the Gap: Attitudes and Emergent Feminist Politics since the Third Wave’, Australian Feminist Studies, 25, (66): 475-484, 2010.
‘Young People, Everyday Civic Life and the Limits of Social Cohesion’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 31, (5), 573-589, 2010.
'Beyond Activist or Apathetic Youth:Young People and Emergent Forms of Participation', Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research: (1), 9-32, 2010. (With Johanna Wyn and Salem Younes).
'Shifting the Boundaries of Cultural Spaces: Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism', Social Identities, 15 (2); 2009; 187 - 205.
'Young People's Politics and the Microterritories of the Local', Australian Journal of Political Science, 44 (2); 2009;327 - 344 (With Johanna Wyn).
‘Young Women, Late Modern Politics and the Participatory Potential of Online Cultures’ Journal of Youth Studies; 11, (5), 2008; 481-495.
‘Young People and Citizenship: An Everyday Perspective’. Youth Studies Australia; Volume 26, Issue 3; Sept 2007; 19 – 27. (With Johanna Wyn and Salem Younes).
‘Vocation, vocation: a study of prisoner education for women.’ Journal of Sociology41.2 (June 2005):143(19).(With Ceridwen Spark).
‘Discourses of Desire as Governmentality: Young Women, Sexuality and the Significance of Safe Spaces’, Feminism and Psychology, Volume 15, Issue 1; February 2005 39-43.
‘Youth Research in Australia and New Zealand’ Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research: Special issue on research on youth and youth
cultures, 12, (3): 271-289. (With Johanna Wyn).‘gURL Scenes and Grrrl Zines: Girlhood, Power and Risk Under Late Modernity’, Feminist Review, Issue 75, November 2003; 38-56.
‘Young Australian Women: Circumstances and Aspirations’, Youth Studies Australia, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2002; 32-37.
‘Dodging and Weaving: Young Women Countering the Stories of Youth Citizenship’. International Journal of Critical Psychology,
4, (2), December 2001; 183-199.‘Revisiting Bedroom Culture: Spaces for Young Women’s Politics’, Hecate, 27, (1): 128-138.
‘Riding My Own Tidal Wave: Young Women’s Feminist Work’. Canadian Woman’s Studies Journal, Special Issue: Young Women: Feminist, Activists, Grrrls, Winter/Spring, 20/21, (4/1): 27-31.
‘Not Drowning or Waving: Young Feminism and the Limits of the Third Wave Debate’. Outskirts, May 2001.
‘Counter Work: Theorising the Politics of Counter Stories’. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 4, (2), December: 6-18. (With Michelle Fine and Sarah Carney.)
‘Doing it Differently: Young Women Managing Heterosexuality in Australia, Finland & Canada’ Journal of Youth Studies, 3, (3): 376-38. (With Sinikka Aapola & Marnina Gonick).
‘Everything A Teenage Girl Should Know: Adolescence and the Production of Femininity’.Women’s Studies Journal, 15, (2), Spring 1999: 111-124.
‘Defining and Contesting DIY: The Politics of Grrrlpower’, Refereed Conference Proceedings, Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, 1999, University of Sydney: Sydney.
‘Multiple Economic Spheres and Youth Livelihood’. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 33, (1) February 1998; 37-57. (With Liz McDonnell & Rob White).
Book chapters
'Citizenship Stories', Youth Studies:Keywords and Movements. Nancy Lesko and Susan Talburt (eds), Routledge: New York. Forthcoming.
‘Gender, Youth and Contemporary Political Engagements’ (with Chilla Bulbeck), Jahrbuch Jugendforschung, A. Ittel et al eds, VS, Wiesbaden, 2010.
‘Taking the Hiccups out of Alcohol Education’ (with Margaret Sheehan), Doing Youth Work in Australia: Youth Work and Youth Issues, Rob White (ed), Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies: Hobart. (reprint), 2010.
‘Young People’s Politics and Citizenship’, Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, A. Furlong (ed), Routledge, London. 2009.
‘Youth Cultures and Feminist Politics: An Introduction’, Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, Anita Harris (ed), Routledge: New York. 2008.
‘Feminism, Youth Politics and Generational Change’ (with Chilla Bulbeck), Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, Anita Harris (ed), Routledge: New York. 2008.
‘Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross National Analysis’, Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Studies of Youth Resistance and Marginalization, David C. Brotherton and Michael Flynn (eds), Columbia University Press: New York.(with Michelle Fine, Nick Freudenberg and Martin D. Ruck), 2008.
‘Not Drowning or Waving: Young Feminism and the Limits of the Third Wave Debate’, The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopaedia of Third Wave
Feminism, Leslie Heywood (ed), Greenwood Press: New York. (reprint). 2006.‘Introduction to Future Girl’, The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopaedia of Third Wave Feminism, Leslie Heywood (ed), Greenwood Press: New York. (reprint). 2006.
‘Citizenship and the Self-Made Girl’, Gender and Education Reader, Madeleine Arnot and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill (eds), Routledge: London. (reprint of chapter from Future Girl). 2005.
‘In A Girlie World: Tweenie in Australia’, Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Culture in Girlhood Studies, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and Claudia Mitchell (eds), Peter Lang: New York.2005. More details here.
‘Contemporary Australian Youth Research: Focus on Gender’,Jahrbuch Jugendforschung 2004, Hans Merkins and Juergen Zinnecker (eds) Leske+Budrich, Opladen. 2005.
‘Introduction’, All About the Girl: Culture, Power and Identity,Anita Harris (ed), Routledge: New York and London, ISBN 0-415-94700-6. 2004.
‘Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer Citizenship’, All About the Girl: Culture, Power and Identity, Anita Harris (ed), Routledge: New York and London. 2004.
Meanings of Sexual Maturity for Young Australian Women and Men’, Youth in Everyday Life Contexts, Vesa Puuronen (ed), University of Joensuu: Joensuu: 123-137. 1999
‘Youth At Work: Issues and Dilemmas’ (with Liz McDonnell & Rob White), Against the Odds: Young People and Work in Australia, Judith Bessant & Sandy Cook (eds), National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies: Hobart:132-143. 1998. More details here.
‘Is DIY DOA? Zines and the Revolution, Grrrl-Style’, Australian Youth Subcultures: On the Margins and in the Mainstream, Rob White (ed), National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies: Hobart: 84-93. 1998.
‘Responsibility and Advocacy: Representing Young Women’, Representing the Other: A Feminism and Psychology Reader, Sue Wilkinson & Celia Kitzinger (eds), Sage: London: 152-155. 1996
Non-Refereed Articles and Reviews
‘Pedestrian Crossings: Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 31, (5): 449-454 (with Melissa Butcher) 2010.
‘Emerging Forms of Youth Participation: Everyday and Local Perspectives’, Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research: (1), 3-7, 2010. (With Johanna Wyn).
‘Rethinking Youth Citizenship: Identity and Connection’, Youth Research Centre research report 30, University, 2008, of Melbourne (with Johanna Wyn and Salem Younes) 2008.
‘Critical Perspectives on Child and Youth Participation in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa’, Children, Youth and Environments,16, (2), guest-edited special issue on Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa: Pushing the Boundaries: Critical International Perspectives on Child and Youth Participation, 2006.
‘Australian Youth Studies: New Research on Participation, Citizenship and Connection’, Society for Research on Adolescence Newsletter, Spring: 1-9. 2006
Review of Action Chicks by Sherrie A. Inness, Feminist Review, 81: 134-136. 2005.
‘Introduction to Focus on Younger Women’, Hecate, 27, (1): 107-108.2001
‘Young Australian Women: Circumstances and Aspirations in the 21st Century’, Queensland Women, Queensland Office for the Status of Women, December: 12. 2001.
Review of ‘Why Feminism’? by Lynne Segal, International Journal of Critical Psychology, 1, (1): 166 - 169. 2000
‘Boys, Reading and Masculine Heroes’, mETAphors, (1), January: 9 - 17 (with Kris Mourney). 1998
Conference Report, Women’s Studies Conference, University of Havana, Cuba, Australian Feminist Studies, 13, (28): 347 - 349. 1998
Review of The Idea of Prostitution by Sheila Jeffreys, The Australian Journal of Political Science, 33, (2): 312. 1998
Review of Sisterhood is Global edited by Robin Morgan, The Australian Women’s Book Review, Spring, November, 9, (2/3). 1997
‘Doing Youth Research: A Practical Guide’, Youth Studies Australia, 15, (3): 18 - 25 (with Liz McDonnell & Rob White). 1996
Reports
'A Report on the Youngest Cohort of Respondents to the National Survey of Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women', VicHealth, Melbourne; 2009.
Recent competitive funding
| Years | Funding Body | Short project title | Amount funded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-2013 | Australian Research Council Discovery Scheme | The Civic Life of Young Australian Muslims (sole CI) | $266,624 |
| 2010-2014 | Australian Research Council Future Fellowship Scheme | Young People and Social Inclusion in the Multicultural City | $745,209 |
| 2007-2011 | University of Queensland | Young Australians and Multicultural Identity | $200,000 |
| 2005-2008 | Australian Research Council Discovery Scheme | Youth Civic Participation and Social Connection in Post-Industrial Society (co-CI with Johanna Wyn, University of Melbourne) | $215,000 |
| 2003 | European Science Foundation | New Forms of Citizenship and Young Generations (with Henk Vinken, Tilburg University, Netherlands; Christine Griffin, Bath University, UK; Angela Ittel, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) | Euro 15,000 |
Postgraduate supervision
Anita welcomes inquiries from prospective higher degree by research students wishing to undertake a PhD or Masters by Research in any aspect of her research areas.
Professional profile
Anita has a PhD in Political Science (University of Melbourne) and a BA (Hons) in Political Science and Social Theory (University of Melbourne).