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The intervention in context

September 5, 2011 – 10:47 am

Peter Billings (ed.), Indigenous Australians and the Commonwealth Intervention, special issue of Law in Context (Federation Press, Sydney, 2011)

Posted in Review | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Edition 113, Indigenous Australians, Intervention | Comments (0)

Ways to Claim a Country

November 14, 2010 – 10:11 am

Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal history, Anglo-Australians, Arab, archaeology, Captain Cook, colonisation, cultural hegemony, egalitarianism, equal rights, genocide, Gillian Cowlishaw, identity, immigrants, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous writers & artists, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish history, Jewish state, Judaisation, legitimacy, nation building, nationalism, Native Title, oppression, Palestine, resistance, sovereignty claims, West Bank, white supremacy, Zionism | Comments (0)

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, colonialism, Francesca Merlan, Income Management, Indigenous Australians, indigenous people, Marcia Langton, Noel Pearson, Northern Territory, Northern Territory Intervention, self-determination, state, substance abuse | 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, colonialism, democracy, Haiti, International Monetary Fund, slavery, United Nations | Comments (0)

I’m Branded

August 2, 2001 – 7:46 pm

Jeannie Rea: No Logo, Naomi Klein, Flamingo/Harper Collins, London, 2001.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged activism, advertising, anarchist theory, anti-corporate movement, appropriation, branding, capitalism, consumer protest, culture jammers, democracy, environmental destruction, exploitation, free trade, Jeannie Rea, media, Naomi Klein, product placement, public relations, solidarity, sponsorship, sweat shops, working conditions | Comments (0)

Mapping the Political Terrain

April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm

George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, capitalism, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, colonisation, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, security, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, sustainability, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United Nations, United States, women's shelter, World Bank, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao | Comments (0)

The Languages of Reconciliation

February 2, 2000 – 4:08 pm

Leanne Reinke

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged Aboriginal children, Aboriginal education, Aboriginal health, Aboriginal languages, Aboriginal people, bilingual teaching programs, ceremonial dances, Denis Burke, education, educational outcomes, English, English as a second language, language, Leanne Reinke, Maori, Maori language, media, medical care, medical care of Aboriginal people, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Pat Dodson, Peter Jull, racism, rhetoric of reconciliation, sterilisation, tolerance, translators | Comments (0)

Burma’s Hidden Heroes, Burma’s Shame

December 3, 1999 – 6:04 am

Joan Robinson documents the plight of Burma’s political prisoners

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Amnesty International, Aung San Suu Ky, Burma, democracy, human rights organisations, Insein Prison, Joan Robinson, Leo Nichols, military junta, National League for Democracy party (NLD), political prisoners, political repression, SLORC, U Hla Khi, United Nations (UN), United States | Comments (0)

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