Adele Webb

• Research Fellow, Democracy and Citizen Engagement, Centre for Deliberative Democracy, University of Canberra

Adele Webb is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy at the University of Canberra, Australia. Her research explores democracy in both theory and practice, with a particular focus on complex political attitudes, such as democratic ambivalence, the influence of historical narratives and subjectivities on political behavior, and the potential for democratic innovation. She has expertise in Philippine politics and the legacy of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines. In 2022, she published her first book "Chasing Freedom: The Philippines' Long Journey to Democratic Ambivalence" (Liverpool University Press).

• 2013–present Doctoral Candidate, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
• 2008–2012 Director, Jubilee Australia

• 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

• 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)

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