Humanity: Surplus to Requirements

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This special issue of Arena Journal addresses the accelerating structural displacement of human participation in contemporary society.

Editorial: In Humanity’s Wake

This special issue of Arena Journal addresses the accelerating structural displacement of human participation in contemporary society.

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Arena Journal issue no. 51/52, 2018

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
Editorial
In Humanity’s Wake
Melinda Hinkson1
Settler Colonialism and Displacement
The Cliché of Resilience
Governing Indigeneity in the Arctic
Julian Reid10
Containment, Elimination, Settler Colonialism
Lorenzo Veracini18
Growing Up Surplus to Humanity
Aboriginal Children in the Northern Territory
Thalia Anthony40
Casablanca in Dark Times
The Ethos of Displacement
Fiona Jenkins71
Refugees, Surveillance and the Un-Seeing State
Elisabeth Yarbakhsh92
The Map Here Is Useless?
Transformations of Resistance in Ramallah
Micaela Sahhar102
Work, Economy and Technological Futures
Basic Income and Post-Capitalist Imaginaries
From Surplus Humanity to Humanity’s Surplus
Stephen Healy130
New Subjectivities of Work?
Technologies and Capitalism into the Future
Naomi Smith and P. J. Holtum153
Society against the State as Society against Surplus
Gillian G. Tan177
Utilitarian Life
Shifting Biopolitics and the Life–Economy Nexus
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen186
Sketches for a Theory of Abject Economies
David Boarder Giles207
Notes on Contributors
203

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