Alison Caddick is an Arena Publications Editor. She was editor of Arena Quarterly (2020-2024) and before that, co-editor of Arena Magazine. With a background in the history and philosophy of science, politics and social studies, she writes on techno-science, the body and prospects for social and cultural change.
Simon Cooper is an Arena Publications Editor and current editor of Arena Quarterly. He is a Consulting Editor for Arena Online. His research areas include literature and film, philosophy, social theory and techno-science.
Paul James is an Arena Publications Editor. He is a researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University. Paul has been an editor of Arena since 1986, and is the author or editor of numerous books, including Globalization Matters (with Manfred Steger, Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Global Crisis and Insecurity (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
John Hinkson is an Arena Publications Editor. He has written extensively for Arena on various topics and has ongoing research interests in contemporary culture and economy, social theory and theories of social transformation. He was a lecturer in the Education Faculty at La Trobe University for 25 years and from 1995 to 2020 was manager of Arena Printing.
Valerie Krips is an Associate Editor (poetry) of Arena Quarterly. She taught at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University before moving to the English Department of the University of Pittsburgh where she was chair of the interdisciplinary Children’s Literature program. She also taught in the department’s graduate program, Critical and Cultural Studies, and has been a consultant for a variety of heritage projects. She was a co-editor of Arena Magazine.
Guy Rundle is an Arena Publications Editor and current editor of Arena Quarterly. He was founding co-editor of Arena Magazine. He is a well-known essayist. His books include Practice: Journalism, Essays and Criticism (Black Inc), and Between the Last Oasis and the next Mirage: Writings on Australia (Melbourne University Publishing).
Timothy Erik Ström is an Arena Publications Editor and the editor of Arena Online. He has a keen interest in the technology, ecology and global capitalism. He holds a research fellowship on extinction through Western Sydney University, and is the author of Globalization and Surveillance (Rowman and Littlefield), and the forthcoming book Cybernetic Capitalism (Verso). His writings can be found at his website, The Sorcerer’s Apparatus.
Dan Tout is an Arena Publications Editor. He is a lecturer in history and sociology at Federation University, and was the managing editor of Arena Journal. His research focuses on settler colonialism and nationalism in Australia and their impacts on and implications for First Nations peoples.
Grazyna Zajdow is an Associate Editor of Arena Quarterly. She was Associate Professor of Sociology at Deakin University where she taught for many years. Her research interests have been the experience and social effects of drugs and alcohol and feminist sociology. She was a co-editor of Arena Magazine.
Contributing Editors
Melinda Hinkson is a social anthropologist and writer. Her books include See How We Roll: Enduring Exile Between Desert and Urban Australia (Duke University Press) and Remembering the Future: Warlpiri Life Through the Prism of Drawing (Aboriginal Studies Press). She is currently an adjunct associate professor with the Climate Change Adaptation Lab, La Trobe University, and lives in north-west Victoria, where she is researching the history and possible futures of farming.
Richard King is an author and critic based in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is the author of On Offence: The Politics of Indignation (Scribe) and Here Be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? (Monash University Press, 2023). and Brave New Wild: How Technology Will Save the Planet, and Other Dangerous Fallacies (Monash 2025).
Stephen Pascoe is a lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has published histories of imperialism, infrastructure, population, housing and urban questions, with a particular focus on the Middle East, the global French Empire and Australia.
Julie Stephens is an author and psychoanalyst. She publishes across areas of cultural activism and memory, the reshaping of care and emotions, and shifting conceptions of the maternal. She is author of Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press) and Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory and Care (Columbia University Press). She is an honorary Professor at Victoria University.