Biography
Anita Harris is a Research Professor in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She is a youth sociologist undertaking a series of projects on youth and citizenship, including the completion of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Prior to joining the Institute, she was a Future Fellow in the Sociology program at Monash University (2011-2015), and a Mid-Career Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland (2007-2011).
Read more on Anita's profileResearch interests
youth identities and cultures; citizenship, participation and new politics; globalisation and multiculturalism; girls' studies
Affiliations
Adjunct Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
Honorary Research Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland
Teaching interests
I welcome inquiries from prospective higher degree by research students on any aspect of my research interests.
Knowledge areas
My areas of expertise are:
youth studies, including youth identities and cultures; citizenship, participation and new politics; globalisation, mobility and multiculturalism.
girls' studies, including sociological and cultural studies of girlhood; young women and feminism; mediated femininities.
Professional activities
Associate Editor, The Journal of Youth Studies
Director, Consortium for Youth, Generations and Culture https://cygc.info
Member, Australian Sociological Association (Youth Thematic Group; Migration, Ethnicity & Multiculturalism Thematic Group)
Member, International Sociological Association (Sociology of Youth Research Committee; Racism, Nationalism & Ethnic Relations Research Committee)
International Advisory Board member, 'Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation', European Commission FP7 project
Advisory Board member, 'Building Stronger Communities: the Status of Young People from CALD Backgrounds', ARC LP project
Projects
I am currently undertaking three major research projects:
- The Effects of Transnational Mobility on Youth Transitions (ARC Discovery Project, co-CIs Prof L. Baldassar, Dr S. Robertson). Young people increasingly migrate abroad for work and education, and Australia is a significant hub for sending and receiving. Migration and education policies encourage this mobility, which is expected to provide youth with enhanced life chances and competitive skills. However, very little research examines its effects on young people’s transitions. This longitudinal project thus investigates how transnational mobility affects young people’s ability to not only achieve desirable qualifications and livelihoods, but to be connected and engaged in their social and civic worlds as these become more dispersed spatially and less predictable temporally. It suggests that youth and migrancy are no longer straightforward states of transition, and proposes that old frameworks of sequential passaging towards adulthood and settlement need to be rethought with conceptual tools that can capture more complex and less fixed routes that characterise young lives on the move. It helps us understand how young people can be supported to maximise opportunities for secure and sustainable livelihoods, strong social networks and engaged citizenship in conditions of mobility.http://www.deakin.edu.au/adi/our-research/projects/the-effects-of-transnational-mobility-on-youth-transitions
- Young People and Social Inclusion in the Multicultural City (ARC Future Fellowship). This project is a sociological analysis of young people's negotiation of social cohesion and civic belonging in multicultural societies. It investigates the function of civic space and youth cultures in young people’s practices of social inclusion and exclusion and establishes how young people of diverse backgrounds create and contest productive intercultural relations. It explores young people's strategies for living with difference in key Australian cities as well as international sites in Italy, Malaysia and South Africa.http://www.deakin.edu.au/adi/our-research/projects/young-people-and-social-inclusion-in-the-multicultural-city
- The Civic Life of Young Australian Muslims: Active Citizenship, Community Belonging and Social Inclusion (ARC Discovery Project). This project investigates established and emergent forms of civic engagement amongst young Australian Muslims of migrant background. It ascertains the extent of their use of formal, informal, subcultural and everyday strategies for participation in civic life and belonging in community, and analyses the ways these can be connected to enduring forms of meaningful citizenship.http://http://www.deakin.edu.au/adi/our-research/projects/the-civic-life-of-young-australian-muslims-active-citizenship-community-belonging-and-social-inclusion
Publications
Anita Harris, Kim Lam
(2019), Vol. 70, pp. 627-646, British journal of sociology, Chichester, Eng., C1
Youthful socialities in Australia's urban multiculture
A Harris
(2018), Vol. 55, pp. 605-622, Urban studies, London, Eng., C1
Conscripts or volunteers? Young Muslims as everyday explainers
A Harris, S Hussein
(2018), pp. 1-18, Journal of ethnic and migration studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Young people and intercultural sociality after Cronulla
A Harris, M Herron
(2017), Vol. 38, pp. 284-300, Journal of intercultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
After Cronulla: 'where the bloody hell are we now?'
A Johns, G Noble, A Harris
(2017), Vol. 38, pp. 249-254, Journal of intercultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Sociology of youth and migration research
A Harris
(2017), pp. 221-234, Critical reflections on migration, 'race' and multiculturalism : Australia in a global context, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Mobile transitions: a conceptual framework for researching a generation on the move
S Robertson, A Harris, L Baldassar
(2017), pp. 1-15, Journal of Youth Studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
R Raffaet, L Baldassar, A Harris
(2016), Vol. 23, pp. 422-437, Identities: Global studies in culture and power, London, Eng, C1-1
A Harris
(2016), Vol. 37, pp. 501-516, Journal of Intercultural Studies, C1
Young people, politics and citizenship
A Harris
(2016), pp. 295-300, Routledge Handbook of youth and young adulthood: new perspectives and agendas, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Belonging and the uses of difference: young people in Australian urban multiculture
A Harris
(2015), Vol. 22, pp. 359-375, Social identities Journal for the study of race, nation and culture, London, Eng., C1
Muslim citizenship in everyday Australian civic spaces
J Roose, A Harris
(2015), Vol. 36, pp. 468-486, Journal of intercultural studies, London, Eng, C1
At home/out of place: young people's multicultural belongings
A Harris
(2015), pp. 155-167, Cultural, religious and political contestations: the multicultural challenge, New York, N.Y., B1-1
Peer research with young Muslims and the politics of knowledge production
A Vassadis, A Karimshah, A Harris, Y Youssef
(2015), Vol. 15, pp. 268-281, Qualitative research journal, Bingley, Eng., C1-1
From the subcultural to the ordinary: DIY girls since Grrrlpower
A Harris
(2015), pp. 151-160, Youth cultures and subcultures: Australian perspectives, Surrey, Eng., B1-1
Theorizing agency in post-girlpower times
A Harris, A Dobson
(2015), Vol. 29, pp. 145-156, Continuum, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Transitions, cultures, and citizenship: interrogating and integrating youth studies in new times
A Harris
(2015), pp. 84-98, Youth cultures, transitions, and generations: bridging the gap in youth research, New York, N.Y., B1-1
Conviviality, conflict and distanciation in young people's local multicultures
A Harris
(2014), Vol. 35, pp. 571-587, Journal of intercultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
DIY citizenship amongst young Muslims: experiences of the 'ordinary'
A Harris, J Roose
(2014), Vol. 17, pp. 794-813, Journal of youth studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Beyond the 'transitions' metaphor: family relations and young people in late modernity
J Wyn, S Lantz, A Harris
(2012), Vol. 48, pp. 3-22, Journal of sociology, London, Eng., C1-1
On line Cultures and Future Girl Citizens
Anita Harris
(2012), Vol. 9, pp. 213-225, FEMINIST MEDIA: PARTICIPATORY SPACES, NETWORKS AND CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP, B1-1
A Harris
(2011), pp. 143-153, Keywords in youth studies: tracing affects, movements, knowledges, New York, N. Y., B1-1
Young people, everyday civic life and the limits of social cohesion
A Harris
(2010), Vol. 31, pp. 573-589, Journal of intercultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Pedestrian crossings: young people and everyday multiculturalism
M Butcher, A Harris
(2010), Vol. 31, pp. 449-453, Journal of intercultural studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Beyond apathetic or activist youth: 'ordinary' young people and contemporary forms of participation
A Harris, J Wyn, S Younes
(2010), Vol. 18, pp. 9-32, Young: Nordic journal of youth research, London, Eng., C1-1
Mind the gap: attitudes and emergent feminist politics since the third wave
A Harris
(2010), Vol. 25, pp. 475-484, Australian feminist studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Young people's politics and the micro-territories of the local
A Harris, J Wyn
(2009), Vol. 44, pp. 327-344, Australian journal of political science, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Shifting the boundaries of cultural spaces: young people and everyday multiculturalism
A Harris
(2009), Vol. 15, pp. 187-205, Social identities, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Young women, late modern politics, and the participatory possibilities of online cultures
A Harris
(2008), Vol. 11, pp. 481-495, Journal of youth studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Young people and citizenship: An everyday perspective
A Harris, J Wyn, S Younes
(2007), Vol. 26, pp. 19-27, Youth Studies Australia, Hobart, Tas., C1-1
A Harris
(2005), Vol. 15, pp. 39-43, Feminism and psychology, London, Eng., C1-1
Vocation, vocation: a study of prisoner education for women
C Spark, A Harris
(2005), Vol. 41, pp. 143-161, Journal of Sociology, London, Eng., C1-1
Jamming girl culture: Young women and consumer citizenship
A Harris
(2004), pp. 163-172, All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity, B1
All about the girl: Culture, power, and identity
A Harris
(2004), pp. 1-280, All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity, A1-1
Youth Research in Australia and New Zealand
J Wyn, A Harris
(2004), Vol. 12, pp. 271-289, Young, C1-1
Future girl: Young women in the twenty-first century
A Harris
(2003), pp. 1-234, Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century, A1-1
gURL scenes and grrrl zines: the regulation and resistance of girls in late modernity
A Harris
(2003), Vol. 75, pp. 38-56, Feminist review, London, Eng., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
A/Prof Anita Harris transfer in - Young People and Social Inclusion in the Multicultural City
Prof Anita Harris
ARC Fellowships - Future Fellowships
- 2016: $78,298
The Civic Life of Young Australian Muslims: Active Citizenship, Community Belonging and Social Inclusion
Prof Anita Harris
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2016: $36,066
Understanding the Effects of Transnational Mobility on Youth Transitions
Prof Anita Harris, Prof Loretta Baldassar, Dr Shanthi Robertson
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2019: $99,806
- 2018: $87,332
- 2017: $138,950
Understanding social cohesion and digital resilience amongst young people aged 12 to 17
Prof Anita Harris, Dr Amelia Johns
Office of the Children's eSafety Commissioner
- 2016: $35,000
Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World
Dr Amelia Johns, Dr Jessica Walton, Dr Gilbert Caluya, Prof Anita Harris
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2019: $31,797
Other Public Sector Funding
Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS)
Prof Michele Grossman, Prof Fethi Mansouri, Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh, Prof Greg Barton, Dr Amanuel Elias, A/Prof Anna Halafoff, Dr Vivian Gerrand, Prof Anita Harris, Dr Amelia Johns, Prof Amanda Keddie, Prof Yin Paradies, Dr Matteo Vergani, Dr Jessica Walton, A/Prof Chad Whelan, Dr Ana-Maria Bliuc, Dr Philippa Collins, Dr Hass Dellal, Dr Nida Denson, Prof Kevin Dunn, Dr Liam Magee, Dr Liam McGarty, A/Prof Amanda Third, Dr Michael Ungar, Dr Sherene Idriss
- 2019: $2,130,724
- 2018: $1,065,362
Other Funding Sources
Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS)
Prof Michele Grossman, Prof Fethi Mansouri, Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh, Prof Greg Barton, Dr Amanuel Elias, A/Prof Anna Halafoff, Dr Vivian Gerrand, Prof Anita Harris, Dr Amelia Johns, Prof Amanda Keddie, Prof Yin Paradies, Dr Matteo Vergani, Dr Jessica Walton, A/Prof Chad Whelan, Dr Ana-Maria Bliuc, Dr Philippa Collins, Dr Hass Dellal, Dr Nida Denson, Prof Kevin Dunn, Dr Liam Magee, Dr Liam McGarty, A/Prof Amanda Third, Dr Michael Ungar, Dr Sherene Idriss
- 2019: $112,204
Supervisions
Carole Ford
Thesis entitled: Still Invisible: The Myth of the Woman-Friendly State
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Social Inquiry
Alison Brookes
Thesis entitled: THE IMPACT OF PRENATAL GENETIC SCREENING ON WOMEN: A FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION-MAKING.
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Social Inquiry