Arena Quarterly issue no. 4, 2020
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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Editorial | ||
Alison Caddick | 2 | |
Features | ||
The militarisation of public life in Australia | Pamela Maddock, Warwick Anderson | 5 |
City and country, food and farming in volatile times | Lauren Rickards and Melinda Hinkson | 9 |
Revivifying neighbourhoods, defying globalisation | Phil Cleary and Chris McConville | 17 |
The local is core to meaningful democracy | Bill Garner | 23 |
A Pluriversal New Deal Ecological sustainability, and the infinite beauty of cultural difference | Ariel Salleh | 28 |
De-commodified housing solutions for all | Louise Crabtree, Joanne McNeill, Sidsel Grimstad, Neil Perry, Emma Power and Wendy Stone | 33 |
Cybernetics, conspiracies and 5G | Timothy Erik Ström | 43 |
The new era of strategic competition raises urgent questions for Australia | Clinton Fernandes | 52 |
Visual Essay | ||
The Bridge | Michael Weatherill and Matteo Dal Vera | 68 |
Arts and Culture | ||
Re-approaching pastoral fraughtness through questions of Australian rurality | John Kinsella | 75 |
Arena Essay | ||
Extractivism and the Australian settler-colonial imagination | Dan Tout | 61 |
Review Essays | ||
Revenge of the Nerds | Richard King | 84 |
The New Debt Trap and the Return of Inflation | John Hinkson | 87 |
Embodied City | Julie Stephens | 92 |
Degrowth | Terry Leahy | 95 |
Poetry | ||
The Storm Coast | David Mason | 72 |
Under the Mesa | 73 | |
Letter to My Right Foot | 74 |