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Response to Lattas and Morris’ ‘Blinkered Anthropology’

November 14, 2010 – 9:32 am

Francesca Merlan in defence of the NT Intervention

Posted in Comment & Debate | Also tagged alcoholism, Andrew Lattas, Anthropology, Barry Morris, Basicscards, Francesca Merlan, human rights, Income Management, Indigenous Australians, indigenous people, Marcia Langton, Noel Pearson, Northern Territory, Northern Territory Intervention, self-determination, state, substance abuse | Comments (0)

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am

It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Arab, capitalism, China, democracy, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, Israel, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, market, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments (0)

The ‘Devil’ in Haiti

March 2, 2010 – 5:09 pm

Victims of colonialist exploitation for centuries, Haitians need more than temporary aid. Aurélien Mondon on Haiti.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged against the current, Arena Magazine February-March 2010, Aurélien Mondon, democracy, Haiti, human rights, International Monetary Fund, slavery, United Nations | Comments (0)

Death in Freeport

September 10, 2009 – 12:49 pm

21st Century colonialism flourishes in West Papua writes Edmund McWilliam

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 101 August-September 2009, Edmund McWilliam, Freeport, Indonesia, Suharto, United Nations, West Papua | Comments (0)

Empires of Consumption

August 2, 2008 – 1:26 pm

With empires on the move again, Alison Caddick looks at our prospects for the future.

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine issue 96 August-September 2008, empires, George W Bush, Georgia, Germaine Greer, Iran, Tibet, Uighur, Vladimir Putin | Comments (0)

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Albanian terrorists, Andy Butfoy, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, anti-semitism, biological weapons, chemical weapons, civil liberties, civil society, Damien Lawson, development, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, ethnic cleansing, executive power, foreign policy, free trade, GATT, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, global justice, globalisation, Gulf War, Guy Rundle, heroin, holocaust, International Monetary Fund (IMF), IRA, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, John Hinkson, John Howard, Kashmiri terrorists, Kimberley Serca, Kosovo, labour rights, malnutrition, market, militant Islam, Mullah Omar, Nauru, Nehal Bhuta, neo-liberalism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine, peace movement, Pentagon, preventable disease, propaganda, protectionism, reconciliation, refugee action movement, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), United States, violence, war, Winston Churchill, World Bank, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising | Comments (0)

What Hope for Years to Come?

October 2, 2001 – 7:53 pm

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged 9/11, civilisation, community, conscience, consumption, democracy, elites, gender, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, globalisation, government, high tech, humanism, individualism, inequality, international markets, market, market fundamentalism, materialism, mediation, modernity, mortality, oppression, peace movement, reconciliation, religion, self-gratification, state terrorism, technology, technosciences, terrorism, United Nations (UN), United States, war, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

The Education of a Spice Girl: Running Amok

June 2, 2001 – 9:36 am

Amanda Johnson

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Amanda Johnson, Batavia, coffee, Indonesia, international trade, Jakarta, kidnapping, looting, plantations, racism, riots, slavery, spice trade, Suharto | Comments (0)

Return of the Repressed

June 2, 2001 – 9:35 am

Matthew Ryan: There’s a New War on an Old Frontier and Indigenous Cultures are in the Firing Line

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal dispossession, Aboriginal people, assimilationism, Cathy Freeman, Federal Parliament, Federation, Gallipoli, Marcia Langton, Minister for Reconciliation, modernity, national history, Native Title, Nicolas Rothwell, Paul Toohey, reconciliation, Robert Manne, Roger Sandall, self-determination, settlement, sorry industry, stolen generation, unemployment, war | Comments (0)

A Treaty Between Our Nations

December 2, 2000 – 7:08 am

Marcia Langton on the status of Aboriginal Australians

Posted in arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Aboriginal customary laws, Aboriginal dispossession, Aboriginal self-government, Bark Petition, British sovereignty, Canada, Chief Justice Marshall, colonisation, Constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal rights, Donald Thomson, Dr Coombs, First Nations people, full equality, Henry Reynolds, Indigenous Australian laws, Indigenous Australians, international human rights, international law, John Howard, Judith Wright, Kevin Gilbert, Mabo, Maori, Maori Land Council Case, Marcia Langton, Native Title, Native Title Act, negotiated settlements, New Zealand, Patrick Dodson, reconciliation, Richard Bartlett, rights, Ronald Berndt, stolen generations, taonga, Tasmania, the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, the Council of Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Native Title Act of 1994, US Supreme Court, USA | Comments (0)

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