Arena Journal articles from January 1 2001

Arena Journal archives from January 1 2001

The new South African arms.(Commentaries: the world at large)
January 1, 2001... Created by Apartheid and Expanded by the ANC Nelson Mandela said many times from his Robben Island prison cell that he would abolish the export of arms from South Africa. He said it was an 'immoral' trade in 'human misery'. But when Mr...

Why the right uses 'class' against the left.(postmodernism)
January 1, 2001... The idea that there is a powerful 'new class' of tertiary educated cultural elites which pursues a radical, left-wing agenda whilst profiting from public monies, has been a feature of right-wing thought since the early 1970s. (1) In Australia...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2001... Arena Journal no. 15: The editors regret that there may have been some ambiguity created due to the use of single inverted commas in two cases in John Hinkson's article 'The Politics of Culture', a response to Nathan Hollier's article, in the...

The politics of Holocaust representation.(Genocide)
January 1, 2001... The Worldly Typologies of Hannah Arendt '... the public realm, as the common world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time'. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. With these words Hannah Arendt...

A future for socialism?(Commentaries: the world at large)
January 1, 2001... The soothsayer is the one who seeks to predict the future in order to control it. His task is to peer into the entrails of a social system to decipher the omens which will assure its rulers that the system will endure. * These days, he is...

A new reality comes to the fore.(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... If the task of the Bush Administration is to forge policy that differentiates it from its predecessor, George W. Bush has achieved his goal. Certainly at first glance his defence and environmental policies could hardly strike a stronger...

Indigenous rights and the crisis in Fiji.(Commentaries: the world at large)
January 1, 2001... Recent crises in Fiji and the Solomon Islands have provoked a new bout of concern about the rise of 'ethnic tension' in Melanesia, and media commentary about the 'arc of instability to the north of Australia'. (1) The temptation to blame these...

Democracy and genocide.(Genocide)
January 1, 2001... Genocide has become another spectre of our times. It is repeatedly voiced in novels, films and 'harrowing' journalistic or TV accounts, and is now calling forth distinguished academic studies like Michael Mann's The Dark Side of Democracy. (1)...

From uprising to war.(Commentaries: the world at large)
January 1, 2001... By the middle of 2001, the third Palestinian intifada (1) was no longer an intifada, or 'shaking', but a war. Not a civil war as Robert Fisk described it (2)--by definition there cannot be a civil war in a territory under occupation--but a...

'Che vuoi?' / 'what do you want?'.(Theory and Politics; Slavoj Zizek's Plague of Fantasies)
January 1, 2001... The Question of the Subject, the Question of Zizek ... for whosoever shall take upon him to choose and alter, usurps the authority of judging, and should look well about him, and make it his business to discern clearly the...

Insecure Australia: anti-politics for a passive federation.
January 1, 2001... How did it come to pass that a public-relations slogan became the oft-repeated 'truth' of the 2001 Australian Federation celebrations --'with a vote, not a war Australia became a nation'? This question goes to the heart of the problem of...

From fragile peace to violent apartheid: Israel and Palestine are at war.(Commentaries: the world at large)
January 1, 2001... Hope and Beyond We have a clear plan for the Camp David peace summit: go all the way in our effort to achieve peace; if we fail, we know it's the fault of the other side... We'll be able to look at the eyes of Jewish...

'Eastern' and 'Western' nationalisms.(reflections of the author of 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism')
January 1, 2001... I should be frank in stating from the outset that I do not believe that the most important distinctions among nationalisms--in the past, today, or in the near future--run along East-West lines. The oldest nationalisms in Asia--here I am...