Tag: community

Alan Roberts Prize: What if Ivan Illich Were Elected Mayor?

Arena Quarterly no. 7

Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson

Sep 2021

The winning essay for 2021 in Arena’s annual Alan Roberts Prize.

There’s No Time Left Not To Do Everything

Arena Quarterly no. 3

Tim Hollo

Sep 2020

…continuing a supplicant politics, where we beg or demand of governments that they act, is both destined to fail and underplaying our hand.

Nurturing a Better, Fairer Food System

Arena Online

Alva K. Lim, Mark Peter Notaras, Robin Perry

16 Jun 2020

COVID-19 is shining a bright light on the nature and importance of community. It is also exposing our vulnerabilities through the ultimate human need, the need for food.
"Humans now have the capacity to produce synthetic life-forms (since 2010) and to destroy life…

Editorial – Issue 41/42 ‘People, Planet and the Anthropocene: Spectators of Our Own Demise?’, by Paul James

Arena Journal no. 41/42

Paul James

Jan 2014

Humans now have the capacity to produce synthetic life-forms (since 2010) and to destroy life on this planet as we know it (since 1952). It is only by recognizing this point — that we are now reconstituting the very basis of nature — that adequate acknowledgement of the Anthropocene starts to hit home.
"Women and children feel much safer now we are told. It is only when we…

Hope-Less Futures?

21 Jun 2012

Women and children feel much safer now we are told. It is only when we go to the ground and recall that any relations between Aboriginal people and police in the present are built upon a deeply fraught history that the prospect of increased policing takes on a different inflection. By Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson
"Paul James finds an insidious underside to the culture of neighbourliness in the United States

There Goes the Neighbourhood

Arena Magazine 79

Oct 2005

Paul James finds an insidious underside to the culture of neighbourliness in the United States
"Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension…

What Hope for Years to Come?

Arena Magazine 55

Oct 2001

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms