Arena Journal articles from January 2005

Arena Journal archives from January 2005

A context for spin?(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... In moving out from cricket to politics, 'spin' has also picked up a far more general connotation. As it joins the new politics it can now relate to deceptive references to any issue at all. At first glance this is paradoxical. Why, as the...

Weird weather and climate culture wars.(Commentary)
January 1, 2005... In 2004, two years after Antarctica's massive Larson B ice shelf shattered and only months after scientists signalled that the North Atlantic current might be cooling, two mass media spectacles ground like icebergs against each other. The first...

New labour and post-Fordist ideology: inherent contradictions?(Commentary)
January 1, 2005... 'We have abandoned ideology. We simply do what works.' New Labour has made a virtue out of regularly claiming that it has no ideological or philosophical agenda. It has forsaken the politics of the redistributive Left and given the appearance...

White redemption rituals: repatriating aboriginal secret-sacred objects.(Commentary)
January 1, 2005... Introduction During the past five years, the federal government has given $3 million to Australian museums to repatriate Aboriginal cultural heritage. As part of this project, my colleagues and I at Melbourne Museum investigated over 1500...

Decolonization in France and Israel: a comparative approach.(The Middle East)
January 1, 2005... A recurring image in accounts of contemporary Israel is that of Ariel Sharon as a kind of Israeli Charles De Gaulle. This comparison has enjoyed currency since Sharon first became Prime Minister of Israel, and particularly since the publication...

Rethinking the path to peace: a Binational State for Palestinians and Israelis.(The Middle East)
January 1, 2005... Too Late for a Palestinian State? Despite the complete failure of the Oslo peace process, the resultant outbreak of the al-Aqsa intifada, and the unilateral efforts of Israel following Sharon's 2004 'disengagement' plan, renewed support...

Political myth, or foreign policy and the fantasy of Israel.(The Middle East)
January 1, 2005... Resurrecting Sorel This is a section of a larger project on political myth, so let me say a few things about the project as a whole and then focus on the issue of foreign policy and the fantasy of Israel. (1) I begin with a quotation from...

Murder and martyrdom: suicide terror in the third millennium.(The Middle East)
January 1, 2005... The cataclysmic attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon reawakened the world to the devastating effects of suicide terrorism. (1) Since the attacks on New York and Washington, such apparently random and fanatical acts of violence...

The grammar of life--in dialogue with Don Watson's death sentence.(Discourse/Genre/Grammar)
January 1, 2005... Journalist: It's Paul Hunter with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Just back to this--the questions about the video that you've been showing. To be clear, so are you saying that you don't have a single example on the video of a bomb hitting a...

Genre worlds: the discursive shaping of knowledge.(Discourse/Genre/Grammar)
January 1, 2005... The thesis I want to argue in this article is a simple and in some ways rather formalistic one: that textual meaning is carried by formal structures more powerfully than by explicit thematic content; that what texts do and how they are...

Capitalism and the corporate logo.(Discourse/Genre/Grammar)
January 1, 2005... The Logo and Capital As a form of controlled chaos, capitalism has undergone many transformations. For instance, the desire to promote products has gradually been replaced by a desire to promote the desire for products through the...

The Phantom Solution: climate change and nuclear power.
January 1, 2005... Resuscitating a Dinosaur? It was once hailed as the solution to humanity's energy demands, promising electricity 'too cheap to meter'. But nuclear power has not lived up to its advance publicity. Thousands of stations, it was confidently...

Hanoi in transition: from pre-modern to modern times.
January 1, 2005... Ever since Doi Moi, that is, the arrival of capitalist market forms (and the evolution of corresponding social relations), Hanoi has been undergoing the dramatic upheaval that occurred in the old cities of Europe in the 19th century as a result...