Arena Journal articles from March 1999

Arena Journal archives from March 1999

Turkey's swing to the right.(Commentaries: the world at large)
March 22, 1999... A mood of hyper-nationalism is running through Turkey following the capture of PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) leader Abdullah Ocalan. The dismay of PKK supporters around the world has been surpassed at home by the jubilation of Turks. The...

Negotiating indigenous reconciliation: territorial rights and governance in Nunavut.(Commentaries: the world at large)
March 22, 1999... In April 1999 a new jurisdiction became the largest and least populous member of the Canadian federation. Nunavut, significantly meaning 'our land' in the language of the overwhelming Inuit majority, has only 27,000 people. These people live in...

Ten years of vitamin P: Prozac and social meaning.(Commentaries: the world at large)
March 22, 1999... Prozac, the anti-depressant medication that launched a new wave of chemically based psychiatry, has been commercially available for ten years. The occasion of this anniversary has provoked a welter of commentary: pro, con and maybe. As Prozac...

The cultural politics of tattooing (1).
March 22, 1999... While there is a broad multi-disciplinary literature on tattooing and its significance in the 'pre-modern' cultures of Oceania, Asia and the Americas, similar scholarship on tattoos in western cultures is largely restricted to case-studies of...

New waves across the seascapes: are there any life-lines?
March 22, 1999... Throwing Out a Life-Line Market-driven moves towards privatisation of rights in coastal fishing are challenging very long-standing open access marine rights. A transformation in rights to coastal waters, barely visible in Australia, is...

White-washing away native title rights: the Yorta Yorta land claim case and the 'Tide of History'.
March 22, 1999... Recognising Aborigines as the first inhabitants of Australia in a preamble to a proposed revised Constitution is supported by nearly two-thirds of all Australians. (1) This recognition may be a vital symbol of Australia's national maturity and...

The Virtual University.
March 22, 1999... In Australia and North America in particular, campus-based universities are acting quickly to digitise, computerise, go on-line and join the high-tech revolution. Academics are urged to make use of multimedia and the web as an alternative to...

Third way politics and social theory: Anthony Giddens' critique of globalisation.
March 22, 1999... Now that Anthony Giddens has thrown his hat into the ring by associating his broad social theoretical contributions with Third Way political strategies, and the Third Way has moved into a more complex phase--losing its innocence in the...

An interview with Alberto Melucci *.(Interview)
March 22, 1999... This is a revised and expanded version of an original interview conducted by Yasushi Yamanouchi and Shujiro Yazawa at the Hitosubashi University, Tokyo, in September 1994. The occasion for the interview was Alberto Melucci's participation in...

Feminist betrayals: Jean Curthoys' feminist amnesia: the wake of women's liberation.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1999... The Culture Wars One of the major historical achievements of the late twentieth century is that women's voices and issues have gained a systematic place in the intellectual life of the academy for the first time in over two thousand years...

Who can enforce the peace?(Editorial)(Editorial)
March 22, 1999... One of the most disturbing features of the drawn out ordeal of the people of East Timor has been the inability of the United Nations to act either promptly or decisively. East Timor has had little of the basic complexity of Kosovo. Here,...