Researcher Profile

  • Conjoint Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle

    Honorary Professor, Alfred Deakin Institute, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University

  • Online youth culture, far-right, masculinity, violence, youth social movements

  • Youth sociology, Indonesia, contemporary Islam

  • Nilan, P. (2021) Young People and the Far Right. Palgrave Macmillan. Alternative Futures series https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811618109

    Nilan, P. (2019) Muslim youth in the diaspora: Challenging extremism through popular culture. Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Muslim-Youth-in-the-Diaspora-Challenging-Extremism-through-Popular-Culture/Nilan/p/book/9780367351304

    Parker, L and Nilan, P. (2013) Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia, Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Adolescents-in-Contemporary-Indonesia/Parker-Nilan/p/book/9781138575479

    Nilan, P. (2019) ‘Far Right Contestation in Australia: Soldiers of Odin and True Blue Crew’, in M. Peucker and D. Smith, eds, The Far-Right in Contemporary Australia, pp. 106-129. Palgrave https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-8351-9_5

    Nilan, P. and Wibawanto, G.R. (2021) ‘Challenging Islamist populism in Indonesia through Catholic youth activism’. Religions 12(6-395): 1-14. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/6/395

    Nilan, P. (2020) ‘Muslim youth environmentalists in Indonesia’. Journal of Youth Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2020.1782864

    Nilan, P. (2019) ‘Indonesian youth, global environmentalism and transnational mining’. Youth & Globalization 1(1): 166-186. https://brill.com/view/journals/yogo/1/1/article-p166_166.xml

    Nilan, P. (2018) ‘Smoke gets in your eyes: Student environmentalism in the Palembang haze’. Indonesia and the Malay World 46(136): 325-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2018.1496624

    Nilan P. and Wibawanto, G.R. (2015) ‘Becoming’ an environmentalist in Indonesia. Geoforum 62: 61–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.023

    Nilan, P. (2009) ‘Contemporary masculinities and young men in Indonesia’, Indonesia and the Malay World, 37(109): 327-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639810903269318

  • Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation And Extremism, and The Changing Character Of Competition And Conflict In The Indo-Pacific


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    Email Address pamela.nilan@newcastle.edu.au

 

Pam Nilan

Overview

Pam Nilan is an Honorary Professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute in Melbourne, and Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle. She specializes in the study of youth, having conducted fieldwork research in Indonesia, Fiji and Australia. She is currently a Chief Investigator on ARCDP200102013 ‘Far Right in Australia: Intellectuals, Masculinity and Citizenship’. Professor Nilan is a member of the Advisory Board for the Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies in Melbourne, and a member of the Advisory Board for the European Union project TRANSGANG. She has been a consultant on Indonesian postgraduate scholarships for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade since 2005.