modernity – Arena

"A politics for the new divisions

Into the Breach, by Guy Rundle

Arena Magazine no. 147

Guy Rundle

Apr 2017

A politics for the new divisions

"The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the…

Introduction – Issue 43/44 ‘Making Modernity: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb’

Arena Journal no. 43/44

Jan 2015

The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the contradictions in popular understandings of the Middle East and North Africa. The place of the region in the global history of modernity has been unsettled yet again...

"The rational scepticism that has been the province of science for 400 years has now…

Vaccine Hesitancy

Arena Magazine no. 138

Andy Blunden

Oct 2015

The rational scepticism that has been the province of science for 400 years has now been turned back onto science itself, and everyone thinks they are qualified to form a scientific opinion.

"Television isn’t to blame for every social ill but neither is it neutral, write Melinda…

The Reality of TV

Arena Magazine 83

Jun 2006

Television isn’t to blame for every social ill but neither is it neutral, write Melinda Hinkson.

"Jenny Hocking: Imprecision over the language of 'terrorism' and its application, leads to concerns that…

The State and Terror in the New Era

Arena Magazine 56

Dec 2001

Jenny Hocking: Imprecision over the language of 'terrorism' and its application, leads to concerns that counter-terrorist security measures will be broadly targetted in ways that are neither appropriate nor efficient, ways that may impinge upon legitimate political agitation and dissent

"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

"Matthew Ryan: There's a New War on an Old Frontier and Indigenous Cultures are in…