Arena Magazine issue no. 136, 2015
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| EDITORIAL | ||
| Simon Cooper | 2 | |
| LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
| Michael Leunig | 4 | |
| AGAINST THE CURRENT | ||
UNION JACKED The Tories' election strategy may have tested the UK to destruction | Guy Rundle | 5 |
JIHADI JAKE The product of a toxic Right and impotent Left | Tim Robertson | 7 |
FEAR AND THE WORKING CLASS The far Right and the destruction of meaningful work | Colin Long | 9 |
WHY WEEKENDS In defence of penalty rates | Meave Noonan | 11 |
| COMMENT | ||
THE WAITING ROOM Media coverage of the Bali Nine executions | John Brinnand | 13 |
| FEATURES | ||
A CEMETERY IN TURKEY Gallipoli and the horror of industrialised warfare | Matthew Sharpe | 15 |
MIDNIGHT IN VENEZUELA Contradictory possibilities and lessons we might learn in the shadow of Chávez | Fregmonto Stokes | 19 |
TERRORISING THE SELF Selfie culture at the intersection of the corporate and surveillance state | Henry A. Giroux | 24 |
THE CONTESTED MODERNISATION OF JAKARTA High-rises and consumerism push aside the kampungs | Zacharias Szumer | 28 |
EMPOWERED INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES Empowering who exactly? | Elise Klein | 33 |
| ARTS AND CULTURE | ||
IN SEARCH OF THE BUDDHA On Barry Hill's 'Peacemongers' | Gerry Simpson | 36 |
| ESSAY | ||
How we might understand the motivations and self-sacrifice of 'foreign fighters' | Andy Blunden | 41 |
| REGULARS | ||
THE COMMON TOUCH: IN CONVERSATION | Mark Furlong | 14 |
POSTCARD: IN PURSUIT OF BIGFOOT | Roland Boer | 39 |
| REVIEWS | ||
THE EYES HAVE IT The Photograph and Australia | Melinda Hinkson | 47 |
PERFECT CHARITY Women religious living the spirit of Vatican II | Wendy Poussard | 50 |
TRESPASSING ON HOME SOIL Karen Jennings' 'Away from the Dead' | Alice Robinson | 52 |
THE HARROW OF TIME Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant' | Robert DiNapoli | 54 |
| POETRY | ||
IT'S TIME | Angela Smith | 8 |
THE HUMMINGBIRD | James Milenkovic | 6 |
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL | Kevin Hart | 46 |
THE FUTURE | Kevin Hart | 3 |
| CARTOONS | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||