Arena Journal articles from January 1 2000

Arena Journal archives from January 1 2000

The lessons of Lebanon.(Commentaries: the world at large)(Syrian President Hafez al Assad)(Biography)
January 1, 2000... The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you. Habbakuk 2:17 (Book of the Old Testament) Within a month of Israel retreating from Lebanon the news was being announced in the Syrian Parliament that President Hafez...

The fate of the university.(Commentaries: the world at large)
January 1, 2000... The recent conference on the future of universities in Australia, sponsored by the Association for a Public University, (1) had a good turnout, nearly filling the venue where it was held. This fact alone seemed to provide a sense of relief to...

What's love got to do with it?(Commentaries: the world at large)
January 1, 2000... Photographs of loving mothers are again gracing the pages of the daily press as the latest IVF debate rages on. This time, however, they are lesbian mothers. Filled with longing for a child, they convince us that love lies at the core of this...

Corroboree 2000: a nation defining event: a comparative perspective.
January 1, 2000... Corroboree 2000 for a Canadian participant-observer was as exhilarating as it was surprising. The surprise was to see how deeply engaged the country is in trying to get right the relationship ,between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians....

Behind the Fiji crisis: politics of labour in an ethnically divided society.
January 1, 2000... On May 19 2000, George Speight and a group of armed men entered Fiji's Parliament, held members of the democratically-elected, Labour-led Coalition Government hostage and declared themselves the new 'indigenous' rulers of the small island...

The network of moral sentiments: the third way and community.
January 1, 2000... Today, the search is on to reinvent community for a modern age, true to core-values of fairness, co-operation and responsibility, but applied to the world as it is not the world as it was. Tony Blair, 'Battle for Britain', The...

Social movements in complex societies: a European perspective.
January 1, 2000... In this article I want to give a critical account of the direction social movements have taken in the last three decades and of the problems they pose, with their specific contents and methods of aggregation, for contemporary political systems....

Globalization now: outstripping critical analysis?
January 1, 2000... The article takes the editorial of the first issue of the New Left Review (new series) as its point of departure. NLR's review of globalizing capitalism accents stabilization; it is silent on the renewal of contradiction but notably independent...

Class and cultural production: the intelligentsia as a social class *.
January 1, 2000... Bennett, Emmison and Frow's recently published Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures might well mark a theoretical turning point in Australian Cultural Studies. (1) Despite its mid-century origins as a discourse overwhelmingly...

Is love what we need? Raimond Gaita's a common humanity.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... Readers of Quadrant will be familiar with much of this book (1) in the form of many articles published during that magazine's brief period of what used to be called 'wet toryism'. Raimond Gaita has reworked and added to this body of writing and...

The importance of class: points of tension between Arena and Overland.(Discussion)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... This debate grew out of the 1998 MUA wharf dispute and in particular an Arena Magazine article by John Hinkson that criticized the treatment of the dispute by Stuart Macintyre in Overland. (1) I replied to that article in a letter printed in...

The politics of culture: the wharves and social reality.(Discussion)
January 1, 2000... Nathan Hollier's comment on my work and the work of Arena more generally arose out of a public discussion between Overland and Arena about the significance of class divisions in politics today. This discussion was a response to earlier...

I have glimpsed the new level playing field and....(Editorial)
January 1, 2000... As all the nations of the world gather in Sydney, Australia, to compete in the Olympics, it is as though for a week or so the world has stopped. This is of course an illusion that will be quickly brought to earth. The games barely conceal a...