Arena Journal back issues from September 2002:
Is this the end of history? The Iraq prospect.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2002; ... It has been repeated ad nauseam that, especially for the citizens of the United States, the world changed on September 11. There can be no doubt that it did so, even if this was mainly by way of a profound apprehension that things were not as they had seemed to be. The ...
Terrorism, anti-terrorism and the globalization of insecurity.(Commentary)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Since September 11 terrorism and the 'war on terror' have dominated the world's headlines. Yet, heinous crimes though they were, the attacks on New York, Washington and Bali can hardly be classed among the more violent conflagrations of the last ten years. In the Rwandan genocide some ...
Chechnya and the theatre of war.(Commentary)
Sep 22, 2002; ... An anti-terrorist state is taking shape in Russia. The gas attack in the Theatre Na Dubrovke set far-reaching political processes in motion. All of the state's activities are now centred around the war on terrorism. Any criticism of the special services therefore becomes an anti-government ...
Terror on the beach.(Commentary)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Life under late capitalism already compels us to sift through vast networks of information in order to gain a minimum of ontological security. Terrorism, however, adds a new degree of intensity to our obsession with sign hunting. If the globalization of paranoia has allowed our every ...
On global terror: September 11 one year on.(Commentary)
Sep 22, 2002; ... The attack by terrorists on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon continues to impact on global politics, drawing them in the direction of a military endgame commentators are refusing to contemplate. Event follows event with a rhythm that is increasingly predictable. A humiliated and ...
Globalization and the unchosen: leaving America behind.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Leaving America Behind Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion? (How serious people's faces have become) Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly, Everyone going home lost in thought? Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come. And some ...
Stem-cell alchemy: techno-science and the new philosopher's stone.(Commentary)
Sep 22, 2002; ... The current debate over experimentation on foetal stem cells implicitly goes to core questions about what it means to be human. When does human life begin? Is stem-cell science simply a technical matter of deploying abstracted body parts, or does it involve experimenting on potential ...
'Plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope--but not for us'. Cultural studies in the shadow of catastrophe.(Critical Essay)
Sep 22, 2002; ... My title refers to one of those wonderful witty faux-naif moments in Kafka. Walter Benjamin tells the story, in his essay on Kafka in Illuminations. In conversation with a contemporary, Kafka said that human beings are nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts, that come into God's head; yet ...
Left out? Marxism, the new left and cultural studies.
Sep 22, 2002; ... While the spectre that haunted Europe in 1848 seems to have been exorcised, at least for the moment and at least from the eastern half of the continent, its theoretical counterpart--marxism as distinct from communism--still haunts the crossroads of international cultural studies, a ghostly ...
Another world is possible: Prometheus or Pandora.(Excerpt)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Prometheus or Pandora? Driven by the ideal of private ownership of just about everything on Planet Earth, neo-liberal capitalism undermines social cohesion and justice for the sake of profits, competition, consumption and technological growth. (1) These values are the last ...
Can education challenge neo-liberalism? The citizen school and the struggle for democracy in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Introduction In this article, we want to situate the processes of educational policy and reform in their larger socio-political context. We describe the profound impact on local communities of a set of policies that are linked to larger dynamics of social transformation and to a ...
Global capitalism and the return of the garrison state: rethinking hope in the age of insecurity.(Excerpt)
Sep 22, 2002; ... The democratic idea itself is perhaps best thought of as a utopian aspiration ... we need such aspirations if we are to resist the notion, made plausible by the seeming inevitability of globalization, that democracy, self-determination and the common good are ideas whose time is past. ...
Self-reliant citizens and targeted populations: the case of Australian agriculture in the 1990s.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Since the early 1990s the notion of 'self-reliance' has assumed a central place in agricultural and regional policy in Australia. Applied specifically to agriculture, rural producers have been told by governments and farm organizations that they must become less dependent on government ...