You are invited to the launch of Arena Journal 29/30 Thursday June 19, 6.30PM at Brunswick Bound (a wonderful new bookstore)
361 Sydney Road Brunswick
(close to the Albert St corner, ph: 9381 4019)
Professor Jon Altman will launch this special issue of Arena Journal, a double issue with a focus on Aboriginal Australia.
12 months since the beginning of the Northern Territory intervention, much soul-searching and some fundamental reflection is taking place on black/white relations and the future of Aboriginal communities and culture.
This issue of Arena Journal carries
• a landmark article by Desmond Manderson on the deferral of the Rule of Law in relation to Aboriginal people,
• Paul t' Hart on the political uses of emergency,
• Michael O'Loughlin on the destruction of culture and intergenerational trauma,
Ernest Hunter on problems in the delivery of health care in remote communities.
Arena Journal no 29/30 also carries major articles on two important contemporary theorists — Alain Badiou and Bruno Latour — and essays on 19th-century Christian socialism, 21st century secularism, student responses to neo-liberal universities, nuclear Iran, and orientalist discourses in the North Pacific.
Jon Altman heads the ANU's Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research and is a co-author of Coercive Reconciliation: Normalise, Stabilise Exit Aboriginal Australia. Having worked over many years in Eastern Arnhem Land, and with extensive networks in the Territory and across remote Australia, he has an ear close to the ground on developments still occurring in the Northern Territory. We look forward to his observations on the ongoing developments there.
Further information:
ARENA PUBLICATIONS
TEL: 61 3 94160232
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED! ALL WELCOME!
If you would like to come out to dinner on Sydney Rd after the launch, please RSVP to 9416 0232.