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Editorial: Our Given Body: Roe v Wade

In the American context, abortion has only increasingly become a ‘master category’, pointing to an ultimate value around ‘life’ but also condensing the meanings and anxieties that are fuelling the radical Right’s larger political struggle—offering ordinary folks a visceral connection to overcoming something ‘rotten’ in the established liberal system.

Arena Quarterly issue no. 11, 2022

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
Our Given Body: Roe v Wade	ALISON CADDICK	3
Big Bad World
Assange in Extremis The Atlantic powers are determined on extradition	BINOY KAMPMARK	6
Middle East Threats and Conflicts Simmering dangers: ISIS, nuclear proliferation and big power intervention	AMIN SAIKAL	13
Assassination by Drone Normalising the Forever War, undoing the ground of human security	PAUL JAMES	18
The Burtons and Bandung Non-alignment: lost opportunities for peaceful coexistence in the Asia-Pacific	ALISON BROINOWSKI	27
Back Home
A Positive Politics Community Independents and the new wave of political engagement	DENIS GINNIVAN, LESLEY HOWARD	32
Too Big To Tax North West Shelf and lessons for sharing our sovereign wealth	DAVID LEE, CLINTON FERNANDES	38
Reading the Republic Movement Their argument is out of order	JOSH ABBEY	46
Visual Essay
The Merge Are we living in a computer simulation?	SARA, PETER & TOBIAS COLLECTIVE	51
Accelerated Worlds
Zero Gravity Floating towards posthumanism	RICHARD KING	56
Vision Mātauranga: Commodifying Māori Knowledge Science, Indigenous knowledge and the politics of academic research	KEITH BARBER	64
Digital Conspiracies and Accelerationist Fictions The print-on-demand novel has replaced the manifesto for far-Right patriots	HELEN YOUNG, GEOFF BOUCHER	69
History
‘Horse’ The making of an Australian working man: Dinny McQueen, 1899–1975	HUMPHREY MCQUEEN	75
Performance
Credibility Gulf Theatrical strategies to wake up the narcoticised viewer	KATHLEEN MARY FALLON	83
Review Essay
Degrowth, Green Growth, Post-Growth Imagining and creating just and regenerative post-carbon futures	JOHN WISEMAN	93
Poetry
Fire	EDITH SPEERS	31
Light	EDITH SPEERS	31
exercises for free will	EDITH SPEERS	31
Tech	JOHN FALZON	81
A May Day Poem	JOHN FALZON	82
Black Summer Reflections, a 2020 Looking Glass	CAROLYN MASEL	92

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Editorial: Our Given Body: Roe v Wade

Arena Quarterly issue no. 11, 2022

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