Articles by: Grazyna Zajdow

6 Oct 2022

The Polish government immediately granted temporary rights to the refugees, giving them employment, health and education support for eighteen months.

Kettling for COVID: Police and protest in Melbourne

Alison Caddick, Grazyna Zajdow

12 Nov 2020

…police forces everywhere have been militarising their equipment, procedures and general outlook. They have been taking on the strategies of special operations forces, influenced by discourses of terrorism, learning new and terrifying tactics…

Suicide spikes and moral panic

17 Sep 2020

…the modelling of potential suicides uses some of the actual experience of unemployment and suicide to underscore its figures, but it completely omits the sociological and historical understanding of a community’s reaction to a major social event such as a war or pandemic.

Constructing Melbourne’s COVID Pariahs

7 Jul 2020

The latest spike of cases in the west and north of Melbourne allows the rest of Melbourne to construct COVID as a disease of migrants and the irresponsible casual workforce…

Some (Un)intended Consequences

21 Apr 2020

Without genuine oversight, openness and critique, this pandemic might change our social world in ways that are undesirable at best, and frightening at worst.

"Review(s) of: Harlots, by (Monumental Pictures, 2017-19); The Deuce, by (Blown Deadline Productions, 2017-19).

Informit: Television scenes from a brothel [Book Review]

Arena Quarterly no. 1

Mar 2020

Review(s) of: Harlots, by (Monumental Pictures, 2017-19); The Deuce, by (Blown Deadline Productions, 2017-19).

"Review(s) of: See what you made me do, by Jess Hill (Allen and Unwin, 2019).

Informit: Violent men [Book Review]

Arena Magazine no. 162

Oct 2019

Review(s) of: See what you made me do, by Jess Hill (Allen and Unwin, 2019).

"Review(s) of: Never look away, by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2018.

Informit: The artist under totalitarianism

Arena Magazine no. 161

Aug 2019

Review(s) of: Never look away, by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2018.

"Review(s) of: La reprise: Histoire(s) du theatre (1), by Milo Rau (NTGent, 2019).

Informit: Story and storytelling [Book Review]

Arena Magazine no. 159

Apr 2019

Review(s) of: La reprise: Histoire(s) du theatre (1), by Milo Rau (NTGent, 2019).

"The student as consumer and monitoring academic staff

Teaching to the SET, by Grazyna Zajdow

Arena Magazine no. 156

Oct 2018

The student as consumer and monitoring academic staff

"An article in the 26 July issue of 'Times Higher Education' holds some interest for…

Informit: Teaching to the set

Arena Magazine no. 156

Oct 2018

An article in the 26 July issue of 'Times Higher Education' holds some interest for academics, educationalists and others concerned with the increased managerialism of the contemporary university. A long-running dispute between the Canadian academics' union and Ryerson University went into arbitration, with the arbitrator finding that student evaluations of teaching (SETs) could no longer be used for promotion and tenure because SETs are imperfect, unreliable and 'downright biased'.

"Review(s) of: Midnight oil: 1984, by Ray Argall, 2018.

Informit: The temper of the time

Arena Magazine no. 155

Aug 2018