PhD Researcher, Department of Government and International Relations / Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney
Adele is a PhD researcher at University of Sydney's Department of Government and International Relations, and a member of the Sydney Democracy Network. She specialises in the fields of political sociology and political theory. Her doctoral research uses a historical study of democratisation and the middle classes in the Philippines to challenge core assumptions in contemporary democratic theory and to develop the concept of 'democratic ambivalence'. She has written on Philippine politics for the Australian media. Previously, she worked in international justice advocacy and was director of NGO Jubilee Australia.
Experience
2013–present
Doctoral Candidate, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
2008–2012
Director, Jubilee Australia
Education
2012
London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc Political Sociology
2011
University of South Africa, Bachelor of Human & Social Studies (Development Studies)
2002
University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Arts (History) / LLB
Publications
2017
"'Why Are the Middle-Class Misbehaving?' Exploring Democratic Ambivalence and Authoritarian Nostalgia." , Philippine Sociological Review 65(S1) (Forthcoming)
2017
A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency (edited by Nicole Curato), Chapter - Hide the Looking Glass: Duterte and the Legacy of American Imperialism (Forthcoming)
2011
Debt-for-Development Exchanges: History and New Applications (edited by Professor Ross Buckley, University of New South Wales), Chapter 9 - Debt-for-Development Exchanges in Australia: Past, Present and Future (Adele Webb and Luke Fletcher)