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The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the contradictions in popular understandings of the Middle East and North Africa. The place of the region in the global history of modernity has been unsettled yet again…
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Humans now have the capacity to produce synthetic life-forms (since 2010) and to destroy life on this planet as we know it (since 1952). It is only by recognizing this point — that we are now reconstituting the very basis of nature — that adequate acknowledgement of the Anthropocene starts to hit home.
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Geoff Sharp introduces the Issue
“The general thrust of the contributions to this issue of Arena Journal is transformation. These articles suggest that the organisation and conduct of social life is now changing in ways that unsettle the basic assumptions that have underpinned the whole epoch of modernity…”
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John Hinkson’s introduction to Issue 37/38 (2012): Stolen Lands, Broken Cultures: The Settler-Colonial Present
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2008: Issue 29/30.
John Hinkson on the dangers of promoting neo-liberalism as the basis of Aboriginal culture.