Arena Journal articles from December 1999

Arena Journal archives from December 1999

Annus horribilis for neoliberals.(Commentaries: the world at large)
December 22, 1999... To them that hath... Australia, January 1999: a sizzling economic growth rate of five per cent; record corporate profit levels; soaring productivity; a financial sector largely untouched by the Asian crisis; declining levels of public...

Chechnya: politics of the New Barbarism.(Commentaries: the world at large)
December 22, 1999... The KGB ushered in perestroika. The dying CPSU General Secretary and former KGB head Yury Andropov, anxious to reinvigorate the Soviet military-industrial state, endorsed Mikhail Gorbachev, who went on to become party General Secretary in March...

Death by sashimi (1): the survival of the Southern Bluefin Tuna.(Commentaries: the world at large)
December 22, 1999... In the late 1980s, Greenpeace International campaigned against the Japanese government's unilateral 'scientific whaling research program' with a famous joke in a newspaper advertisement. Above a photograph of a large Japanese whaling ship on a...

Kashmir in political perspective.(Commentaries: the world at large)
December 22, 1999... In late 1999, the government changed in both India and Pakistan. On 10 October, the thirteenth Lok Sabha was duly constituted in India; two days later, on 12 October, the elected government in Pakistan was overthrown in a military coup. It...

Beyond a postnationalist imaginary: grounding an alternative ethic (1).(Nationalism and Post-Nationalism)
December 22, 1999... In an understandable disillusion with the limitations of the national liberation movements, particularly as the movements harden into advocating conventional nation-state politics, critics are beginning to put their faith in the new...

Constitutional politics in multi-national Canada (1).(Nationalism and Post-Nationalism)
December 22, 1999... It is Canada's fate to have become a pioneer in managing a very challenging type of constitutional politics. This is the constitutional politics of a democratic political community among whose people there are very different senses of national...

Socialism, nationalism and the case of Quebec.(Nationalism and Post-Nationalism)
December 22, 1999... Introduction In this article I wish to consider four distinct clusters of points related to self-definition, liberal nationalism, socialist nationalism and Quebec nationalism. Self-definition, I shall argue, is essential for the...

England's occluded nationalism: state and nation in English identity.(Nationalism and Post-Nationalism)
December 22, 1999... English nationalism, like English Common law, is difficult to pin down, but it clearly exists. The English are becoming increasingly aware of this particular identity, an identity which is emerging out of the end of Empire, the rise of the...

Valuing nature: Teresa Brennan's Economic Theory.
December 22, 1999... Despite academic turf wars among US feminist theorists between the 'high theory' of those in the humanities and the 'in the field' activism of those in the social sciences, there are fortunately still feminist theorists who creatively defy...

The limits of openness: a comment on Alastair Davidson and Michael Arnold.(Discussion)
December 22, 1999... The processes of globalization have clearly challenged the existence of both the nation-state and the university in their traditional forms. If the founding assumptions behind these quintessentially modern institutions have been rendered...

Welfare after work?(Discussion)
December 22, 1999... How should we think about welfare states at the close of the twentieth century? Zygmunt Bauman's recent contributions to Arena Journal1 provide a useful starting point. Although he was primarily concerned with analysing the position of the new...

Towards global diversity.(globalization)(Editorial)
December 22, 1999... The upheaval within social life which we associate with the term globalization has now been building up for at least two decades. Tied structurally to cultural and technological developments which have issued in the information and...