Recently added articles from Arena Journal:
Securing the future.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2007; ... In the main, we do not think about security in everyday life. It is simply taken for granted--until it comes under threat. When security is lacking, it is as though the world has come apart: trust, truth and integrity between people suffers. Indeed, serious insecurity can lead to ...
The abuses of realism and Australian security interests.(Commentary)(Report)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The 2007 Defence Update The Defence Update 2007 (1) comes after a decade of constant and still unfinished increases in defence spending, a tripling of domestic security spending, huge weapons systems orders, Australian Defence Force deployments from Lebanon to the Solomon ...
Turning Sunni and Shia against each other.(Commentary)(Report)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The surreal appointment as special 'peace envoy' to the Middle East of a man who shares responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East, was announced as the Israeli military launched its biggest single attack on Gaza since the electoral victory of Hamas ...
Nations vs imperial unions in a time of globalization, 1707-2007.(Commentary)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... In the circumstances of intensifying globalization, all nations are becoming mongrels, hybrids or foundlings, but old empires die hard. May 2007 marked the three-hundredth anniversary of the state that founded Australia--the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This ...
Rogue Pakeha.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... How not to speak of brothers? Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Esssays on Reason. The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule, Walter Benjamin, 'On the Concept of History'. Ahmed ...
Post-cultural hospitality: settler-native-migrant encounters.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Contemporary settler states can be characterized as conjunctural formations that attempt to address the demands of the historical legacies of colonization at the same time as dealing with the present-time and future-oriented imperatives of transnational and international global forces. (1) ...
'Inclusive exclusion': managing identity for the nation's sake in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Mar 22, 2007; ... The threat that fast-moving processes of 'globalization' pose to the nation, whether as shifting markets, more cheaply produced goods, new technologies, or regional alliances, nowadays motivates calls from all quarters that we be more competitive, entrepreneurial, innovative, excellent ....
Academic Darwinism: the (logical) end of the Dawkins era.(Report)
Mar 22, 2007; ... In July The Australian reported that the salaries of vice-chancellors were edging closer to those of the corporate world, with some packages topping a million dollars a year. (1) Academics might ruefully recall when vice-chancellors were considered part of academic staff, whereas today it ...
Zionism without Zionism: the Jacqueline Rose--Edward said exchange.(Edward W. Said)(Report)
Mar 22, 2007; ... In a gesture that is certain to infuriate some and confuse others, the Jewish literary critic Jacqueline Rose dedicates her recent book, The Question of Zion, to the late Palestinian-American critic Edward W. Said. (1) Said himself never had the opportunity to comment on Rose's book, Rose ...
Do we really have to work more creatively?
Mar 22, 2007; ... ... did not Marx's own son-in-law write a book called The Right to be Lazy? Fredric Jameson A Moribund Left To say the Left is in crisis is not only a cliche, it is an unwarranted optimism. Crisis implies the necessity, and thereby also the possibility, of decisive ...
All music is popular music?(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The relationship between sound and power is as old as recorded history. From the location of ancient cave paintings at sites of intensified acoustics to the destructive power of the Sirens or Joshua's trumpets at Jericho, sound has defined territory and 'zones of contestation'. Livy ...
Globalization, capitalism and the market: beyond a historical and flat-earth arguments.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Capitalist production, trade, and market relations are driving forces of contemporary globalization. (1) While globalization cannot be reduced to its economic dimension as some economists have been prone to do, there is no doubt about the central importance of capitalist exchange and ...
Between the fronts: German-speaking intellectuals in the Viet Minh.(Report)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Cold War Reception in the German Democratic Republic On 20 February 1950, the chairman of the Free German Youth (FDJ), Erich Honecker, launched an appeal to the 'German soldiers in Vietnam' in the Foreign Legion. (1) As their 'continued stay in the Legion is not compatible with ...
Do we expect too much from politics?(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2006; ... In the last issue of Arena Journal we published a collection of pieces on utopia. At the least, utopian thought means keeping the possibility of a different future open. Far from implying the pursuit of a pre-ordained plan that sees everything in the glowing light of future perfection, as ...
Australia's legal response to terrorism: where will it end?
Sep 22, 2006; ... Up until September 11 2001, Australia had no national laws on terrorism. Political violence was dealt with by the ordinary criminal law. Since then we have passed a litany of new anti-terror laws. (1) In an era punctuated by terrorist attacks, starting with New York and ...
The Armenian genocide: the moral necessity of remembering.
Sep 22, 2006; ... I say to you--he who does not know the truth is merely a fool. But he who knows it, and calls it a lie, is a criminal. Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo, Scene 9. On 24 April 2005, Armenians at home and in the diaspora commemorated the 90th anniversary of what was, at ...
Donald F. Thomson: scholar, farmer, advocate ...(Images of Aboriginality)
Sep 22, 2006; ... In The Savage Mind Claude Levi-Strauss pays tribute to the wide interdisciplinary range of an Australian anthropologist. One 'begins to wish,' he reflects there, 'that every ethnologist was also a mineralogist, a botanist, a zoologist and even an astronomer'. (1) After all, as the ...
Mabo in a world perspective: recognizing aboriginal title.(Images of Aboriginality)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Peter H. Russell's recent book Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English Settler Colonialism has been a long time coming, but it has been well worth the wait. (1) I met Peter Russell in the mid-1990s when he visited me at James Cook University to ...
Seeing eye to eye: photography and the return of the native in aboriginal Australia.(Images of Aboriginality)
Sep 22, 2006; ... When I worked as a curator in the Indigenous Cultures Program at Melbourne Museum in the late 1990s, a number of my colleagues worked on a massive photographic exhibition which was later installed as part of an exhibition called 'Koori Voices'. Jane Lydon, in her recent publication Eye ...
Destitute discourses: the art of orchestrating fear and fantasy in photographs of homeless people.
Sep 22, 2006; ... During the late 1970s the streets of major cities in Western Europe, the United States, Great Britain and Australia swelled with new populations of homeless people. (1) Identified contributing factors included the effects of economic downturn and subsequent adjustments to fiscal policy in ...