Arena Quarterly issue no. 7, 2021
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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Editorial | ||
Alison Caddick | 1 | |
Nation/Empire | ||
Neither party, nor the system, can answer the categorical challenges of our era | Guy Rundle | 4 |
Will expanding government debt only entrench the wealth divide? | John Quiggin | 7 |
Empire by another name | Clinton Fernandes | 12 |
Australia’s Yemen War and the supply of arms to rogue regimes | Michelle Fahy | 22 |
Australian encouragement to the strongman and decades of denial | Peter Job | 28 |
Theory and Practice | ||
Radical gender theory and the Left | Richard King | 36 |
Science/Culture | ||
Should We ‘Follow the Science’? A philosophical counter to science’s claim to culture-transcending knowledge | Christopher Houston | 43 |
Our abstract ways of viewing | Madeline Frolich | 52 |
Alan Roberts Prize | ||
A ‘miraculous epilogue’ to the industrial city | Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson | 57 |
Place and Community | ||
Our Local Funeral Parlour When development threatened a marker of place and community | Rachel Coghlan | 63 |
Review Essay | ||
Decolonisation or Redemption? The one-state solution: Unsilencing Gaza, by Sara Roy, and Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine, by Jeff Halper | Christopher Wise | 75 |
Reviews | ||
Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe | Richard Davis | 80 |
Withdrawing and Unmaking The Unconstructable Earth, by Frédéric Neyrat | Melinda Hinkson | 84 |
Why Crime Is Declining | Grazyna Zajdow | 88 |
Among the Shades Where the Water Ends, by Zoe Hollman | Robert DiNapoli | 91 |