Arena Magazine 141

EDITORIAL: GLOBAL AVARICE

If the money relation sits at the heart of capitalism, how does its present, twenty-first-century form, digitised and ultra-globalised, break asunder the assumptions and ethics of a given world?

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Arena Magazine issue no. 141, 2016

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Ian Bracegirdle4
COMMENTARY
TURNBULL'S TAX DILEMMA
Debt, incompetence and global volatility
John Hinkson5
MIGRANT JUSTICE IN SETTLER-COLONIAL AUSTRALIA
Refugee and asylum-seeker rights and Aboriginal sovereignty
Sam Levnad7
REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE
Civilisational clash or the necessity of reconciliation?
Richard Ogier8
MORNING IN AMERICA AFRESH?
What are Bernie Sanders' chances?
Guy Rundle10
DISCUSSION: THE TRANS DEBATE
SPEAKING COMPASSIONATELY
Henry von Doussa13
REFUSING A FIXED IDENTITY
Julie Peters13
MASS-MEDIA PANICS
Gavin Lewis14
THE CATEGORY 'WOMAN'
Alison Caddick15
FEATURES
TIME FOR TREATY
Questioning 'settlement': principles for a treaty based on human equality
Tony McAvoy16
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR A TREATY
Constitutional change is key to a strong treaty
Alastair Nicholson20
OUR GOLDEN AGE OF CORRUPTION
Neoliberalism and the politics of flight produce endemic corruption
Bruce Buchan24
DEAD CENTRE
The myth of the political 'middle ground'
Richard King27
THE PROMISSORY NOTE
COP 21 and the Paris Climate Agreement
Peter Christoff31
DONALD TRUMP'S CONSERVATISM
Trump's success lies in the politics of the personal
Geoffrey Robinson35
ESSAY
TARRING THE TANAMI
On the way to Yuendumu
Melinda Hinkson38
ARTS AND CULTURE
CRAFTING FUTURES
Is technology the only path to postcapitalism?
Kevin Murray41
STORY
GUILT
Winner of Arena Magazine's award for Best Short Story with a Political Edge, as part of Sisters in Crime's Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Kylie Fox48
REGULARS
COMMON TOUCH: GUILT AS RESTRAINT OF TRADE
Without a brake, where will the shift to amorality end?
Mark Furlong12
COOPER'S LAST: ACADEMIC HOAXES AND THE 'IDEAS BOOM'
Anti-intellectualism and technocratic innovation
Simon Cooper54
REVIEWS
CROSSING NORTH-SOUTH BORDERS
Coloniality, migration and academic life
Raewyn Connell44
WHICH WOMEN?
Women's role in making cities
Meave Noonan45
THE FALL OF THE OTTOMANS
A complex history of a diverse empire's demise
Stephen Pascoe46
POETRY
MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE
Kirsty Sangster19
EUROPE AND ALMONDS
Peter Murphy23
THE LAST EUROPEAN
Barry Hill43
A SILLY THING
Edith Speers53
CARTOON
Matt Bissett-Johnson

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