What Rough Beast?

Editorial: What Rough Beast?

Western sentiment and geopolitical reorderings

Ukraine marks the point where the culture wars have opened out onto the geopolitical landscape, aligning progressives with neocons, humanitarians with warmongers.

Arena Quarterly issue no. 12, 2022

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
What Rough Beast? Western sentiment and geopolitical reorderings	Simon Cooper	3
Christmans
I’m still Dreaming of a Black Xmas Stamp History and politics in Australian stamps	Humphry McQueen	8
Geopolitics
Neither Their War Nor Their Peace After Ukraine, might a multipolar world emerge?	Clinton Fernandes	10
Mussolini Redux? Where do Italy's allegiances lie?	Gerardo Papalia	16
Economy
Our Failing Economy Central banks and consumer fantasy	John Hinkson	25
Asset Politics Why debt is not the main problem	Martijn Konings, Gareth Bryant & Lisa Adkins	28
Region
Pacific Moves France and Australia in the age of AUKUS	Nic Maclellan	32
Imagining West Papua The most underreported region in the world	Susan Connelly	36
Environment
Solastalgia The internal dimension of climate change	Robert DiNapoli	39
Changing Fire Imaginaries Reconciling Indigenous and Western fire practices	Sally Gardner, Danielle Couch, Mick Bourke, Amos Atkinson & Paul Komesaroff	43
‘Your Lives Are Nothing to Me’ Political responses to the rise of climate as super-actor	David Ritter	50
Education
Do the Maths Why mathematics education is failing our kids	Marty Ross	57
Philosophy
Philosophy Will Ruin Your Life Philosophers have been hounding innocents for thousnds of years	Justin Clemens	62
In ‘The Far-Off Afterwards’ D. H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo at 100	William Holbrook	70
Memoir
Once Were Revolutionaries Memory and activism—my father and fieldwork in Turkey	Christopher Mouston	74
Review Essay
Imagining Water Emily O’Gorman’s Wetlands in a Dry Land and Geoff Lacey’s At Home in the Land	Jack Kirne	82
Reviews
He’s On a Roll Alasdair Cannon’s Holding Patterns	Kathleen Mary Fallon	89
Grand Days For Some James Cotton’s The Australians at Geneva	Alison Broinowski	92
Sanctions as Weapons Nicholas Mulder’s The Economic Weapon	Binoy Kampmark	94
Poetry
Fish Meal / Identity	Anthony London	80
the island / Satisfactory / La Reconciliación	Bn Oakman

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What Rough Beast?

Editorial: What Rough Beast?

Western sentiment and geopolitical reorderings

Arena Quarterly issue no. 12, 2022

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