Arena Magazine articles from April 2001

Arena Magazine archives from April 2001

AIDS IN AFRICA.(pharmaceutical industry policy and generic drugs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The AIDS crisis in Africa exceeds in horror and evil anything that the neoliberal world order has been able to dish up in the last decades. A disease that starts with young adults and works its way down through children and the newborn, leaving...

AFTER CONSUMERISM: THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY.(self image in the new economy)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... In Japan they are dropping currency from planes. Consumption was supposed to be hard-wired into consumers, but at the moment not even money from heaven and zero interest rates are stimulation enough to move these people into renewed desire for...

THE MARKET EATS ITS OWN.(Australia election forecasts)
April 1, 2001... JOHN HINKSON ON THE CRISIS OF MAINSTREAM POLITICS AFTER THE SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRES The electoral turmoil in Western Australia and Queensland has set the cat amongst the pigeons in all conservative parties -- which includes the Meg Lees...

NOT IN OUR NAME.(support, refugees in Australia)(Column)
April 1, 2001... REFUGEE DETENTION PUTS THE LIE TO OUR EGALITARIAN MYTH The great egalitarian spirit of this country is very much a gift of the soil, it is a gift of the air we breathe together, it is a gift of the land we share together. John Howard's...

CROSSING THE BORDER.(refugees in Australia, civil rights)
April 1, 2001... WHEN GOING GLOBAL MEANS FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR EVERYTHING BUT PEOPLE As debate over the mandatory and non-reviewable detention of asylum seekers heats up -- a policy introduced by the Keating Government in 1994 -- sections of the Left are...

KILLING US SOFTLY.(biological, electro-shock weapons in policing)
April 1, 2001... POLICE AND LESS-THAN-LETHAL WEAPONS A former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police was recently reported in the media as supporting the introduction into policing of electro-shock weapons, known as Air Tasers. He said police risked being...

EUSKADI TA ASKATASUNA?(Basque Homeland and Freedom)(Column)
April 1, 2001... ETA'S VIOLENT STRATEGY MAY BURY THE HOPE OF A BASQUE HOMELAND In 1999, about six months before the break in ETA's cease-fire, I visited San Sebastian. By luck we were in time for the festival Aste Nagusia. The celebrations last for three...

SUHARTO'S COLONIAL ADVENTURE.(Indonesia's legacy)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... JAKARTA'S CORRUPTION AND BRUTALITY IS TO BLAME FOR THE RECENT DAYAK UPRISING Jakarta has responded to the anti-Madurese massacres in Central Kalimantan, which have taken between 500 and 2000 lives, with the usual iron-fist approach. After...

SURVIVING REALITY.(Review)
April 1, 2001... REALITY TV IS SOCIAL LIFE MINUS THE MESSY SOCIAL ASPECT Venomous snakes, poisonous spiders, lurking crocodiles, oppressive heat -- no I'm not talking about the latest production from the Immigration Department designed to discourage illegal...

RECONCILING INDIGENOUS AND NATIONAL POLITICS.(Canada's social polic)
April 1, 2001... The centenary of Federation has spotlighted the status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders within Australia. In Canada, indigenous relations with `mainstream' political systems provide a parallel case. Canada's indigenous peoples...

LETTERS AND DEBATE.
April 1, 2001... `There is no knowledge that doesn't have a politics' -- I was reminded of historian Greg Dening's observation while reading Tony Moore's article, `Unchaining Aunty', on the perils for the ABC in what he calls the `post-broadcast age' (Arena...

THE RISE OF THE SOCIOLOGIST KING.
April 1, 2001... SOCIOLOGISTS HAVE GAINED AN UNPRECEDENTED INFLUENCE IN THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER. BUT, ASKS BORIS FRANKEL, ARE THEY ICINGS OR PAWNS OF THE NEW ECONOMY? In recent years, academics, the media and public figures have subjected us to a barrage of...

ECLIPSED.(Poem)
April 1, 2001... Today she shines the brilliance of expectation and walks the street of stubble-beds and tucked-in needles, forgets to smell the rose-coloured rat, encrusted with tar and tyre. Her purse snoozes in a cosy crinkle ...

WALTER BENJAMIN [DETAILS PRECEDING A SUICIDE].(Poem)
April 1, 2001... (after Adami, `ritratto di Walter Benjamin') under his name the frontier traverses his head a border between lips & tongue /... / (here are his dark eyes & here they seem distracted by the smoke of a cigarette or...

THIS IS THE NIGHT, REMEMBERED IF OUTLIVED.(depression)
April 1, 2001... GUY RUNDLE ARGUES THAT WE NEED TO THINK MORE DEEPLY ABOUT SOCIAL LIFE IN ADDRESSING THE DEPRESSION `EPIDEMIC'. A decade or so ago, psychological depression was something of a cinderella among the troubles of our age. Coming off the back of...

FALLING BETWEEN DANGER AND PROTECTION.(treating the mentally ill)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... SERVICES FOR THE MENTALLY ILL REMAIN BOUND BY FEAR AND NEGLECT Just weeks after his discharge from a psychiatric unit at Geelong Hospital, MP Greg Wilton committed suicide. Wilton's depression and death have captured the media's attention...

FROM LEOPOLD TO KING LAURENT.(Congo)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... THE CONGO IS BEING CARVED UP AND EVERYONE WANTS A PIECE... AGAIN January 16 2001 (forty years after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba) marked the murder of the chubby, but not at all cherubic, ruler of the Democratic Republic of the...

Colin McCahon: A Time for Messages.
April 1, 2001... Colin McCahon: A Time for Messages National Gallery of Victoria, 2 February -- 13 May 2001 The work of the great New Zealand painter Colin McCahon was part of the landscape of my childhood. Gothic, biblical, extreme -- the rain was always...

Artists are like the bards of old, they sing a song of their district.(Rosalie Gascoigne)
April 1, 2001... Artists are like the bards of old, they sing a song of their district. Rosalie Gascoigne, quoted in Vici MacDonald, Rosalie Gascoigne, Sydney, Regaro, 1998. There is something refreshingly radical about the late Rosalie Gascoigne and her...

Profit of People: Neoliberalism and Global Order.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Noam Chomsky, Profit of People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, New York, Seven Stories Press, 1999. Not so long ago there were only a few voices crying in the wilderness about the dangers of globalisation. Today there are many. I first...

The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Peter Gowan, The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance, London and New York, Verve, 1999. Not so long ago there were only a few voices crying in the wilderness about the dangers of globalisation. Today there are many....

Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility: A Dialogue.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Stuart Rees and Shelley Wright (eds), Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility: A Dialogue, Sydney, Pluto Press, 2000. Not so long ago there were only a few voices crying in the wilderness about the dangers of globalisation. Today there are...

Global Capitalism, Liberation Theology and the Social Sciences.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Andreas Muller, Arno Tausch and Paul M. Zulehner (eds), Global Capitalism, Liberation Theology and the Social Sciences, New York, Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2000. Not so long ago there were only a few voices crying in the wilderness...

Changing Track: A New Political Economic Direction for Australia.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Frank Stilwell, Changing Track: A New Political Economic Direction for Australia, Sydney, Pluto Press, 2000. Not so long ago there were only a few voices crying in the wilderness about the dangers of globalisation. Today there are many. I...

The Men and the Boys.(Review)
April 1, 2001... R. W. Connell, The Men and the Boys, St Leonards, Allen and Unwin, 2000. As Bob Connell aptly points out early in his new book, much of the activity surrounding the issue of gender has been driven by feminist women. And most of this work...

Taking Care of Men. Sexual Politics in the Public Mind.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Anthony McMahon, Taking Care of Men. Sexual Politics in the Public Mind, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1999. As Bob Connell aptly points out early in his new book, much of the activity surrounding the issue of gender has been...

Man the Balloon.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Matt Cameron, Man the Balloon, Melbourne Theatre Company, George Fairfax Studio (season concluded). Man the Balloon, the new play from up-and-coming young writer Matt Cameron, is set in a backwater town undergoing a population explosion...

TURNING THE TIDE TOWARDS A MUTUALIST PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS FOR LABOR AND THE LEFT.(Quebec credit unions)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Part I Understanding Mutualism: The Desjardins and Mondragon Experiences Mutualism The Labour Movement is sometimes said to have stemmed more from Methodism than from Marx. In reality, Labour owes less to either Methodism or Marx than...