Arena Journal articles from March 22 2007

Arena Journal archives from March 22 2007

Securing the future.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... In the main, we do not think about security in everyday life. It is simply taken for granted--until it comes under threat. When security is lacking, it is as though the world has come apart: trust, truth and integrity between people suffers....

The abuses of realism and Australian security interests.(Commentary)(Report)
March 22, 2007... The 2007 Defence Update The Defence Update 2007 (1) comes after a decade of constant and still unfinished increases in defence spending, a tripling of domestic security spending, huge weapons systems orders, Australian Defence Force...

Turning Sunni and Shia against each other.(Commentary)(Report)
March 22, 2007... The surreal appointment as special 'peace envoy' to the Middle East of a man who shares responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East, was announced as the Israeli military launched its biggest single...

Nations vs imperial unions in a time of globalization, 1707-2007.(Commentary)(Essay)
March 22, 2007... In the circumstances of intensifying globalization, all nations are becoming mongrels, hybrids or foundlings, but old empires die hard. May 2007 marked the three-hundredth anniversary of the state that founded Australia--the United Kingdom of...

Rogue Pakeha.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... How not to speak of brothers? Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Esssays on Reason. The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule, Walter Benjamin, 'On the Concept of...

Post-cultural hospitality: settler-native-migrant encounters.
March 22, 2007... Contemporary settler states can be characterized as conjunctural formations that attempt to address the demands of the historical legacies of colonization at the same time as dealing with the present-time and future-oriented imperatives of...

'Inclusive exclusion': managing identity for the nation's sake in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
March 22, 2007... The threat that fast-moving processes of 'globalization' pose to the nation, whether as shifting markets, more cheaply produced goods, new technologies, or regional alliances, nowadays motivates calls from all quarters that we be more...

Academic Darwinism: the (logical) end of the Dawkins era.(Report)
March 22, 2007... In July The Australian reported that the salaries of vice-chancellors were edging closer to those of the corporate world, with some packages topping a million dollars a year. (1) Academics might ruefully recall when vice-chancellors were...

Zionism without Zionism: the Jacqueline Rose--Edward said exchange.(Edward W. Said)(Report)
March 22, 2007... In a gesture that is certain to infuriate some and confuse others, the Jewish literary critic Jacqueline Rose dedicates her recent book, The Question of Zion, to the late Palestinian-American critic Edward W. Said. (1) Said himself never had...

Do we really have to work more creatively?
March 22, 2007... ... did not Marx's own son-in-law write a book called The Right to be Lazy? Fredric Jameson A Moribund Left To say the Left is in crisis is not only a cliche, it is an unwarranted optimism. Crisis implies the necessity, and thereby...

All music is popular music?(Essay)
March 22, 2007... The relationship between sound and power is as old as recorded history. From the location of ancient cave paintings at sites of intensified acoustics to the destructive power of the Sirens or Joshua's trumpets at Jericho, sound has defined...

Globalization, capitalism and the market: beyond a historical and flat-earth arguments.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... Capitalist production, trade, and market relations are driving forces of contemporary globalization. (1) While globalization cannot be reduced to its economic dimension as some economists have been prone to do, there is no doubt about the...

Between the fronts: German-speaking intellectuals in the Viet Minh.(Report)
March 22, 2007... Cold War Reception in the German Democratic Republic On 20 February 1950, the chairman of the Free German Youth (FDJ), Erich Honecker, launched an appeal to the 'German soldiers in Vietnam' in the Foreign Legion. (1) As their 'continued...