Ms Intifar Chowdhury

Location: Level 2, RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Crescent

Researcher profile: https://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/people/ms-intifar-chowdhury

Thesis title: Are Young Australians Turning Away from Democracy? A Comparative Study of Youth Disengagement in Advanced Democracies; Jan 2023

Biography
Publications

Intifar is an Associate Lecturer and PhD candidate at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations. Her doctoral research tackles the important question of whether young people are turning away from democracy. It constitutes a quantitative enquiry on advanced democracies using survey data from comparative databases. Her political commentary on the engagement of young people in politics and issues affecting youth voters appeared in The Conversation, The Guardian, The Canberra Times, The Ethics Centre, ABC Q&A, Al Jazeera English and ANU's Policy Forum.

Prior to this, Intifar obtained a double degree in Science (Biochemistry/Genetics) and International Relations (Honours) at the ANU. Currently, she works as the Senior Survey Research Officer for the longitudinal Post School Destination (GENERATION) Survey, conducted by the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods in collaboration with the Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment

Chowdhury, I.S., 2021, "Are young Australians turning away from democracy?" Australian Journal of Political Science, 2021, 56 (2): 171-188.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2022, “Away from Political Parties into Lifestyle Politics: Young People in Advanced Democracies”, E-International Relations, 23 July.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2022, " Young People May Be Learning Politics Through Tweets, Reels, Spoofs, And Memes", Australian Outlook: Australian Institute of International Affairs, 6 July.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2022, "Young Australian voters helped swing the election – and could do it again next time", The Conversation, 6 June.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2022, “Housing affordability crisis: The elephant in the room stomping young Australians”, The Ethics Centre, 16 May.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2022, “To Australians sick of the election: this is why voting is not a waste of your time”, The Conversation, 13 May.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2022, “What will young Australians do with their vote – are we about to see a ‘youthquake’?”, The Conversation, 14 April.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2022, "The Australian Government must walk the walk on gender equality", Policy Forum: International Women's Day in Focus, 10 March.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2022, “Why are young Australians locked out of home ownership? The answer is politics”, The Guardian, 16 January.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2021, “Overly suspicious youth or dodgy politicians? The distrustful relationship risking the future of democracy”, Policy Forum: Asia and the Pacific Policy Society, 16 December.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2021, “Finally, some Millennial representation. But what about Dominic Perrottet makes us shift in our chairs?”, The Canberra Times, 15 October.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2021, “From climate change to COVID, Gen Z's premature mid-life crisis could be a tale of hope and resilience”, ABC News, 3 October.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2021, “Melbourne protests paint youth in a negative light”, The Canberra Times, 27 September.

Chowdhury, I.S., and Rutledge-Prior, S., 2021, “‘Ms Represented’ may have missed the mark”, The Canberra Times, 21 August.

Chowdhury, I.S., 2021, “Young Australians are supposedly ‘turning their backs’ on democracy, but are they any different from older voters?”, The Conversation, 3 August.