Bhupati, Megana, Alexander, Nita, Perry, Yael, and Farrugia, Jack (2026) Nature-Based and Community-Level Responses to Climate Distress in Young People: A Systematic Review. Journal of Adolescence, 98 (5). pp. 1439-1453.

Alexander, Nita, Petray, Theresa, and McDowall, Ailie (2026) Prefigurative Practice: Acting in the Present, Foreboding the Future. In: Akram, Sadiya, and Bowman, Benjamin, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Young People's Environmental Activism. Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks . Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 352-361.

Alexander, Nita, Petray, Theresa, and McDowall, Ailie (2025) ‘It’s not a future issue, it’s a now issue’: young climate activists’ changing habitus in the face of climate change. Journal of Youth Studies, 33 (2).

Alexander, Nita (2024) "You kind of have to keep fighting": young activists becoming political and acting prefiguratively. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Alexander, Nita, Petray, Theresa, and McDowall, Ailie (2022) Conscientisation and Radical Habitus: Expanding Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice in Youth Activism Studies. Youth, 2 (3). pp. 295-308.

Alexander, Nita, Petray, Theresa, and McDowall, Ailie (2022) More learning, less activism: narratives of childhood in Australian media representations of the School Strike for Climate. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 38 (1). pp. 96-111.

Alexander, Nita, Ashley, Aaron, Lisciandro, Rebekah, Oleszek, Rachael, and Petray, Theresa (2021) When students protest and when they don’t: challenging the apathy narrative in Australia. In: Bessant, Judith, Mejia Mesina, Analicia, and Pickard, Sarah, (eds.) When Students Protest: Universities in the Global North. Rowman & Littlefield, London, UK, pp. 159-178.