Arena Quarterly no. 2

In Arena no. 2, writers explore COVID-19 and some of its multifarious societal implications, plus university protests in India, Australia’s role in intrigues at home and abroad, and the co-optation of the caring professions in ‘Countering Violent Extremism’.

Editorial: American Dream

Not just precarity but destitution threatens under conditions of COVID, and especially in the United States it threatens people of colour.

Arena Quarterly issue no. 2, 2020

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
American Dream	Alison Caddick	2
Features
Unacknowledged Legislators When gods and gribblies visit: human incomprehension of the malign and the invisible	Robert DiNapoli	6
Everything Is Thinkable, So What Is To Be Done? In this COVID moment, let's rethink the growth machine	Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson	12
Spies, Lies and the Caring Professions: Countering Violent Extremism The state surveillance of Muslims and the co-optation of the caring professions	Linda Briskman and Susie Latham	24
Last Chance for Universities? Will COVID-19 kill the corporate university?	Simon Cooper	32
Where the Mind Is Without Fear… Protest and suppression of dissent in India's universities	Subarno Chattarji	40
Trauma Talk How our vulnerabilities are shaped and trauma is framed	Mark Furlong	46
Motherhood as Misery? Postnatal depression is not the norm	Rhonda Small	54
Arena Essay
A High-Tech Pandemic? Globalisation and high-tech capitalism have shifted the boundaries between human and nature	John Hinkson
Considerations
On Walking Now From the flâneur to the surveilled self	Andrew Benjamin	76
Unmasked: Face-work in a Pandemic The mask as talisman and stigma	Warwick Anderson	80
Visual Essay
Behind Glass	Lisa Sorgoni	57
Review Essays
Sub-imperial State: Australian Dirty Work Brian Toohey’s Secret: The Making of Australia’s Security State and Bernard Collaery’s Oil Under Troubled Water: Australia’s Timor Sea Intrigue	Clinton Fernandes	85
Oedipal Capitalism Michael Winterbottom’s Greed	Neil Maizels	91
Chaos-Bringing 'Men in Time' Benjamin R. Teitelbaum's War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right	Guy Rundle	94
Poetry
Green Bans	Π.o.	22
The Assassins	Micaela Sahhar	72

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Arena Quarterly no. 2

Editorial: American Dream

Arena Quarterly issue no. 2, 2020

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