Arena Magazine no. 158

Arena Magazine issue no. 158, 2019 cover image

Editorial: THE SENSE OF AN ENDING?

Circumstances, and sorting them through, may bring us now to a much clearer knowledge of the sources of human precariousness.

Arena Magazine issue no. 158, 2019

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING?	Alison Caddick	2
Lead Graphic
AROUND THE BEND		4
Commentary
THE BASIN AND THE KILL A devastating combination: agribusiness, political bastardry and complacency	Stefano de Pieri	5
FLAGGING SUPPORT Alternative days for national contemplation and celebration	Misha Coleman	8
VENEZUELA A left course?	Carlos Eduardo Morreo	9
THE UNSPOKEN ‘WOG’ SLUR Britain’s neoliberal media and New Imperialism	Gavin Lewis	11
COMMENTARY: BREXIT
BIGGER THAN BREXIT A first ‘Letter from London’	Gerry Simpson	14
BIG LITTLE BRITAIN When the political compact loses its ground	Guy Rundle	16
REGULARS: COMMON TOUCH
ENTREPRENEURS ‘Social influencers’ and the dark fairy tale of autonomy	Mark Furlong	19
VISUAL ESSAY
UNFOLDING PROJECTS Afghan and Australian artists’ books collaborations	Gali Weiss	28
Features
ROUND THE BEND CONSERVATION COOPERATIVE Alternative strategies for conservation and housing	John Roberts	20
THE PROBLEM CHILD OF EMPIRE ‘Developing the North’ and the settler-colonial capitalist imagination	Shannyn Palmer	24
SPECIAL SECTION: FOR ALAN ROBERTS
ALAN	Guy Rundle	33
NEW WORLDS AND THE NUCLEAR AGE Reflections on the social form of the scientific age	John Hinkson	34
EXISTENTIAL RISK How UN science reports and policymaking understate the threats of climate change	David Spratt	39
JOINING UP CLIMATE POLICY Tackling the twin challenges of climate change and electricity supply	Hugh Saddler	44
ARTS AND CULTURE
‘BETTER NEVER MEANS BETTER FOR EVERYONE’ Cultural change, literary adaptation and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale	Sashi Nair	49
REVIEWS
DID ‘PROTECTION’ PROTECT? Investigating Tim Rowse’s account of the protection regime in Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901	Padraic Gibson	53
BELONGING Billy Griffiths’ bid for historical truth-telling in Deep Time Dreaming	Dan Tout	55
VANISHED BOHEMIA George Johnston and Charmian Clift’s Greek idyll in Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell’s Half the Perfect World	Emma Fajgenbaum	56
POETRY
TEN THOUSAND DEAD BEES	Sarah Hart	48
DOCKERY FARMS
THE LOOKOUT MAN (IT’S ALL IN YER ’EAD)	Robert DiNapoli	57
Cartoons
	Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
	Chris Black

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Arena Magazine no. 158

Editorial: THE SENSE OF AN ENDING?

Arena Magazine issue no. 158, 2019

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