Arena Magazine issue no. 140, 2016
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| EDITORIAL | ||
| Simon Cooper | 2 | |
| LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
| David Pope | 4 | |
| COMMENTARY | ||
TRADE WITH CHINA Is a dominant trading partner damaging for economic development? | Simon Ville | 5 |
HALAL HYSTERIA Radicalising differences, scapegoating the excluded | Ben Debney | 7 |
THE SHOOTING OF TAMIR RICE False empathy and perpetrator 'victimhood' | Madeleine Byrne | 10 |
AGAINST THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY A recent conference makes the argument and plans for change | Richard Hil | 12 |
HOPING FOR A FUTURE? Then forget about coal | Nonie Sharp | 14 |
| COMMENT | ||
CSIRO'S 'SUSTAINABLE' GROWTH SCENARIO Can Australia decouple economic growth from environmental impacts? | Jonathan Rutherford | 16 |
REFORMING ISLAM? Tony Abbott's reactionary culture argument | Tim Robertson | 17 |
HEPATITIS C UPDATE How have the new hep C drugs been funded? | Bella Anderson | 18 |
| FEATURES | ||
THE DELUSIONS OF SECURITY Carl Schmitt's dictum of 'friend and enemy' and the demonisation of Muslims | Bruce Buchan | 20 |
'MR ROBOT' OR CRITICAL ENGINEERING? Lessons in 'architecture' for the coming revolution | Nicolas Hausdorf | 23 |
THE CASE OF RACHEL DOLEZAL What does the white establishment find so threatening about this woman's identity? | Gavin Lewis | 27 |
DONALD TRUMP AND NEO-FASCISM IN AMERICA Mutating totalitarianism | Henry A. Giroux | 31 |
NO BUNGAWA, NO BIG BOSS Picking winners: colonialism's ongoing strategies | Kendall Trudgen | 34 |
| ARTS AND CULTURE | ||
FERRANTE AND US Truth and connection in the Neapolitan Novels | Anna Thwaites | 42 |
REFLECTIONS ON PASOLINI'S 'WEEPING EXCAVATOR' Capitalism and the destruction of the sacred | Gerardo Papalia | 45 |
| MEMOIR | ||
THE WAR NEVER DID END The legacy of trauma | Grazyna Zajdow | 47 |
| ESSAY | ||
ARNHEM LAND BUFFALO To eat or to cull? | Jon Altman | 38 |
| REGULARS | ||
COMMON TOUCH: EMOJIS ARE US Bringing out the sheep in us all? | Mark Furlong | 19 |
POSTCARD: AFTER 7 NOVEMBER Anxiety and militancy on the streets of Paris | Stephen Pascoe | 50 |
| REVIEWS | ||
A MYTHIC LAST JOURNEY Journey to Horseshoe Bend | Melinda Hinkson | 51 |
THE 'MIRA-MAXIM' OF THE HOLLYWOOD SYSTEM Carol, Joy and Youth | Neil Maizels | 52 |
HOW WOULD IT IMPROVE ANYTHING? Suffragette | Valerie Krips | 54 |
| POETRY | ||
BEING A YOUNG MAN IN HEBRON, OCCUPIED PALESTINE | Jessica Morrison | 22 |
THE LAST EUROPEAN | Barry Hill | 33 |
AN INQUISITOR COMPOSES A SENTENCE | BN Oakman | 36 |
REQUIEM FOR A REVOLUTIONARY | BN Oakman | 37 |
| CARTOON | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||