Tag: colonialism

New Sunrise Over West Papua?

Arena Quarterly no. 24

Susan Connelly

Dec 2025

It is clear that refusals to recognise minority rights loom large in the Australia-Indonesia relationship. Australia’s treatment of such minorities has an element of ‘scapegoating’ to it—blaming smaller groups for threats to dominant relationships.

The Long March To This Place?

Arena Quarterly no. 21

Lorenzo Veracini

Mar 2025

Settler-colonial approaches have evolved as Marxism and the Left have reframed the world colonialism made, to change it.

Some Unsettled Questions on Theory and Strategy

Arena Quarterly no. 21

Guy Rundle

Mar 2025

Did the referendum mark the end of a certain type of relations between state and insurgency? If so, do strategies and assumptions around colonial social constitution need to be radically re-examined?

Settler colonialism in the twenty-first century

Arena Quarterly no. 21

Dan Tout

Mar 2025

Settler colonial theory, and the ‘logic of elimination’ provides the best framework for a new politics after the referendum debacle. But only as a fully critical approach to history and activism.

The Rush That Now Has Ended?

Arena Quarterly no. 21

Jordan Humphreys

Mar 2025

Though the role of colonialism can’t be denied, the politics of class and contemporary capitalism must guide political renewal.

Making Tracks: Introduction: ‘Settler colonialism and politics after the referendum’

Arena Quarterly no. 21

Arena Publications Editors

Mar 2025

This special section is offered as one starting-point among many for debates that need to be, and are, taking place across a continent which has become a place of struggle, driven by and driving questions of what it means to be peoples in the flow of history, violence and transformation.

It’s the voice of ‘rural nullius’ on ABC’s Jim Crow Country Hour

Arena Online

Brian Burkett

18 Apr 2024

Farmers in the south of Israel were granted nearly as much ABC air-time in the four weeks before the Voice vote as all the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations across all of Australia.

Mongrel Mobs? The Gang Crackdown in Aotearoa

Arena Quarterly no. 17

Ali MC

Mar 2024

Emerging out of postwar state- and church-run institutions, early gangs were a social and cultural response to shocking abuse perpetrated predominantly upon Māori and Pacific Islander children.

History and Ancestry: On the collective imagination of our past

Arena Online

Andreas Pohl

14 Dec 2023

Harnessing the widely held belief of identity being connected to ancestry might well have the potential to break the spell of the triumphalist version of our history and hopefully others will follow in its wake.

Who has the right to self-defence, the occupier or the occupied?

Arena Online

Ali Kazak

10 Nov 2023

All colonialists and occupiers have called the resistance they have faced ‘terrorism’, from the French, British and Dutch colonialists to the Nazi, fascists and South African apartheid regime.

Still Fighting the Frontier Wars

Arena Quarterly no. 15

Brian Burkett

Sep 2023

Taking a thoroughly Orwellian approach, Katter’s Australian Party’s ‘Newspeak’ produces a twisted white supremacist discourse that easily forgets the killing times.

Settler Nationalism and Progressive Discourse

Arena Quarterly no. 15

Dan Tout

Sep 2023

Even searching accounts of Australia’s founding can’t resist the assimilationist logic they expose.