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    Thatcher’s ‘Miracles’ Live On

    With the death of Margaret Thatcher we might reflect that we certainly need political leadership in a new key after the debacles unleashed by the leaders of the 1980s.

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    Tearing Syria Apart by Jeremy Salt

    A war is being waged in and on Syria. Protecting the people from the dictator is no more than the usual pretext for attacks on Middle Eastern countries.

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    Much of what Firas Massouh, Yoni Molad and Steve Pascoe write in response to my article is based on assumptions about how I think and how I frame events which have no relationship to how I do think or frame events.

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    Real Justice, by Barry Dickins

    In a series of articles Barry Dickins interviews staff and reflects on Australia’s first Neighbourhood Justice Centre, in Collingwood, Victoria.

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    Why Settler Colonialism?

    John Hinkson’s introduction to Issue 37/38 (2012): Stolen Lands, Broken Cultures: The Settler-Colonial Present

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    The latest issue of Arena Journal – Stolen Lands, Broken Cultures: The Settler-colonial Present No 37/38 – is now available from Arena and bookstores. It accompanies our recent issue of Arena Magazine ‘Intervention’ No. 118. Both are available for a combined price of $31.90 (posted in Australia).
     

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    Rich in historical detail and sharp in theoretical foci, the essays in this book lay bare the enduring authority of settler colonialism around the world. Collectively, the essays perform two crucial tasks concerning colonialism under conditions of prevalent globality. First, they expertly trace the theoretical and substantive outlines of the burgeoning field of settler colonialism in the global milieu. Second, they tease out the persistent, if unstable, dynamics and architecture of settler colonialism in Australia, the United States, including Hawaii, and the Middle East. In the process, they operationalize a line of inquiry that is as nuanced as it is forceful in revealing that colonialism is a ‘historical structure, not an event’, and that it has ongoing consequences in the ‘global present’.
    -Nevzat Soguk, Professor of Globalization, RMIT University

     

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