Arena Journal articles from January 2002

Arena Journal archives from January 2002

'Aboriginal welfare' and the denial of indigenous sovereignty.(Aboriginal Sovereignty)
January 1, 2002... Introduction (1) In his finding against the State of Queensland in the Mabo case, which upheld the validity of Native Title to ancestral lands, Justice Brennan claimed that the common law in Australia would: perpetrate an injustice...

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... In this issue of Arena Journal, again and again the limits of modernity and the worlds within it--that we have often cherished, sometimes critiqued--are drawn into question. Very little is as it would seem to be, or as many might still hope or...

Apres la guerre: dark thoughts, some whimsy.(Commentaries: the world at large: war, terror, freedom)
January 1, 2002... Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest--forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by...

Transports of the imagination: some relations between globalization and literature.
January 1, 2002... In the year 2000, as part of a program to 'encourage participation in, appreciation, value and enjoyment of reading' the ACNielsen company was commissioned by the Australian Government's primary cultural agency--the Australia Council--to survey...

Good times in the history of freedom.(Commentaries: the world at large: war, terror, freedom)
January 1, 2002... As the first phase of the Iraqi campaign drew to its end, George W. Bush declared: 'These are good times in the history of freedom'. His supporters agreed. All around the globe triumphal declarations of victory were accompanied by a pouring of...

In the name of freedom comes a totalizing war-machine.(Commentaries: the world at large: war, terror, freedom)
January 1, 2002... Photographs of dead children regularly appear in the world press. The killing of Anas bin Nazir, shot in the back by the Indonesian military as he ran through a rice paddy in Aceh, is a recent example (23 May 2003). However, there is a one...

Israeli representations of an Arab intellectual.
January 1, 2002... The flamboyant rhetoric of the various PLO factions, as well as the Israeli military and its political leaders, has for years shrouded the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinian factions, consisting of exiled militants and intellectuals,...

Pigs and pearls: art and life in Montenegro.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... This film is dedicated to the new invisible nation of Europe, the fourth largest, of 11 million immigrant and guest workers who moved north to exploit rich and prosperous people, bringing with them filthy habits, bad manners,...

The imperialist war on terrorism and the responsibility of cultural studies.(Commentaries: the world at large: war, terror, freedom)
January 1, 2002... There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. Walter Benjamin In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities. (A l'aurore, arme d'une...

Triple bottom-line capitalism and the 'third place'.(Commentaries: the world at large: war, terror, freedom)
January 1, 2002... Prominent in the United States for a number of years and emerging in Britain and Australia recently, Borders Bookstores and Starbucks Coffee Company embody a considerable shift in mainstream business practices. These two firms represent the...

Missed meanings: the language of sovereignty in the treaty debate.(Aboriginal Sovereignty)
January 1, 2002... In the ten years since the High Court's recognition of native title in the Mabo case, there has been intense scrutiny of the outcomes achieved through that recognition. For the most part this has focused on the number of successful...

Quiet revolution in Aotearoa New Zealand.(Aboriginal Sovereignty)
January 1, 2002... The first 'revolution' followed the coming of the British to a Maori land, and the presumption (through treaty) of the rule of British law. What constitutes for some an actual invasion or conquest has been considered by others a legal...

Suicide bombers: a colonial phenomenon.(Commentaries: the world at large: war, terror, freedom)
January 1, 2002... It is certainly not easy to confront the slain bodies resulting from Palestinian suicide attacks. (1) Interpretations of Palestinian suicide bombings have varied from a sympathetic construction of Palestinian desperation to a concession that...

Derrida and the Palestinian question.
January 1, 2002... In the aftermath of the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the world has once again turned its attention to the Palestinian- Israeli conflict. (1) The recent Aqaba Summit, underwritten by George W. Bush's so-called 'Road Map to Peace',...