Arena Magazine 153

EDITORIAL: 'TO THE EDGE OF FREEDOM': MAY '68 AND NOW

Here, then, in Paris, in one of the heartlands of the Western tradition/logos, in one of the oldest universities in the world, there seems to have been a sense that the whole of existence was being newly lifted into the political.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 153, 2018

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Donna Szoke and Ricarda McDonald4
COMMENTARY
Palestinian refugees and UNRWA
Ihab Shalbak5
The retreat from sustainable river management and prospects for change
Daniel Connell7
'MUSSOLINI IS INSIDE EACH ONE OF US'
The Italian elections and the rise of the Right
Gerardo Papalia9
MASS SHOOTINGS AND FASCIST VIGILANTISM
Historical parallels in tacit support of right-wing violence
Michael de Young12
COMMENT
INCOME MANAGEMENT
Elise Klein, David Tennant, Jocelyn Wighton, Marina Nehme, Shelley Bielefeld14
Jackie Fristacky19
VISUAL ESSAY
THE WORK OF DEBI CORNWALL
Melissa Miles28
WELCOME TO CAMP AMERICA
Life in Guantánamo Bay for US service personnel and detainees
Debi Cornwall29
FEATURES
THE DIGITAL PANOPTICON
The reputational economy and how we become part of it
Mark Furlong20
The first of three articles on Google: from garage project to global institution
Timothy Erik Ström23
EXPORTING RENEWABLE ENERGY?
Australia needs to get on board now
Natalie Ralph and Linda Hancock33
AUSTRALIA'S TORTURE CAMPS
When the 'state of exception' comes to shape normal political discourse
Tim Robertson36
A BROADER POLITICS
The ethical and political contribution of Jim Cairns
Christopher Pollard39
ESSAY
THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF WHAT IT IS TO BE HUMAN
A microbial challenge to where human life begins and ends
David Turnbull44
ARTS AND CULTURE
RUIN VALUE
Rick Amor painting silence in Australia Felix
Nicolas Hausdorf48
REVIEWS
DISLOCATION, DREAMS AND STORYTELLING
Alexis Wright's Tracker and Kim Mahood's Position Doubtful
Melinda Hinkson52
UNIVERSITIES AFTER DAWKINS
No End of a Lesson, by Stuart Macintyre, André Brett and Gwilym Croucher
Simon Cooper54
ART AND CULTURAL OWNERSHIP
Laura Fisher's Aboriginal Art and Australian Society and Darren Jorgensen and Ian Mclean's Indigenous Archives
Jessica Neath56
POETRY
DISSIDENT
Kirsty Sangster11
AUTUMN WASTE
Robyn Rowland51
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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