Arena Magazine 147

EDITORIAL: THAT LIABILITY, DEMOCRACY

What will happen when it is fully revealed in the operation of the corporate state that the needs of the people are not its concern?

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Arena Magazine issue no. 147, 2017

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
George Burchett4
COMMENTARY
PROUD TO BE FRACKING FREE
A victory for communities and environmental protection
Deborah Hart5
A TALE OF THE NEW AUSTRALIAN CITY
Rough sleeping, real estate, and the right to the street
David Boarder Giles and Anna Carlson7
THE DESTRUCTION OF MOSUL
A US general's view
Vanessa Powell10
Contextualising the arrest of Kurdish-Australian journalist Renas Lelikan
John Tully13
THE PRICE OF THE PACIFIC SOLUTION?
'Relieving our present shame', reneging on moral argument?
Klaus Neumann15
FEATURES
A politics for the new divisions
Guy Rundle18
URBANISATION AND DISPOSSESSION
The paradox of cities for Indigenous land justice
Libby Porter22
IMAGINING SANSKRIT LAND
Religious nationalism and transglobal yoga
Patrick McCartney31
SPECIAL SECTION: THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY
The fate of knowledge in an age of innovation
Simon Cooper36
BRAND IDENTITY
The alien spirit of the contemporary university
Lauren Bliss40
A POST-NEOLIBERAL ACADEMY?
Can academics do politics too?
Richard Hil and Kristen Lyons44
UNDERGRAD LIFE
Then and now
Pepi Ronalds48
VISUAL ESSAY
Pine Gap and Menwith Hill
Richard Tanter26
ESSAY
LOVING ROUGHNECK
John Berger's hopeful body
Barry Hill49
REGULARS
COMMON TOUCH: WHOSE PROBLEM AM I?
Covert ways of controlling others
Mark Furlong17
POETRY
HAMLET AT THE MODERN UNIVERSITY
Robert DiNapoli39
JENIN
Micaela Sahhar54
CARTOON
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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