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Arena Quarterly, ISSN 2652-4775, is available from Informit.

Arena Magazine is currently included in two Informit full text products: Australian Public Affairs collection: Full Text - Issue 1 (1991) onwards, and Humanities & Social Sciences collection: Full Text - Issue 100 (Apr/June 2009) onwards.

Arena Journal (peer reviewed, published by Arena Printing and Publishing Pty Ltd, ISSN: 1320-6567) is included in: Australian Public Affairs collection: Full Text - Issue 1 (1992) onwards, and Literature & Culture collection: Full Text - Issue 21 (2003) onwards.

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"A parallel to the Cambridge Analytica scandal 'The development of powerful new means of communication…

Data-driven democracy

Arena Magazine no. 163

Timothy Erik Ström

Dec 2019

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A parallel to the Cambridge Analytica scandal 'The development of powerful new means of communication has coincided, historically, with the extension of democracy and with the attempts, by many kinds of ruling groups, to control and manage democracy.' These words, written by Raymond Williams back in 1962, referred to the rise of printing in the long sixteenth century, through to newspapers in the nineteenth century, and radio and television in the twentieth century. This point…
"The Kurds, the Russians, and democracy in Turkey In Turkey, perhaps more than most other…

Turkey in Syria

Arena Magazine no. 163

Christopher Houston

Dec 2019

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The Kurds, the Russians, and democracy in Turkey In Turkey, perhaps more than most other places, the significance of events is hard to grasp. One reason for this is the sheer number of major, often extreme, politically inspired actions: the murder of the Appeals Court judges in 2004; the huge Republic protests in support of state secularism in 2007; the massive Gezi Park protests against urban development in 2013; the shocking suicide bombings in Suruc…
"Smart devices and surveillance in everyday life What does home mean to you? Relief as…

The hybrid home

Arena Magazine no. 163

Ziying Meng

Dec 2019

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Smart devices and surveillance in everyday life What does home mean to you? Relief as you walk in the door after a long day of work? Peace when you lie on the couch on a cosy Sunday afternoon? Perhaps above all it's the place where the outside world is left behind. But today the home has become a hybrid space, both public and private. In the information society, the network connects dwellings with the world,…
"Crispin tells a friend, 'I feel bad, really horrible'. A little up-ended, Ashley hesitates, then…

Read my ‘I’

Arena Magazine no. 163

Mark Furlong

Dec 2019

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Crispin tells a friend, 'I feel bad, really horrible'. A little up-ended, Ashley hesitates, then replies, 'I don't know what to say. I can't think of anything useful to tell you. One thing I do know is I feel very uncomfortable. Hey, just what do you want me to say?'
"The spurious logics used to justify child sex dolls The BBC Three documentary The Future…

‘Better a robot than a real child’

Arena Magazine no. 163

Caitlin Roper

Dec 2019

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The spurious logics used to justify child sex dolls The BBC Three documentary The Future of Sex: Sex Robots and Us follows presenter James Young as he interviews manufacturers of lifelike sex dolls and robots around the world. In a Tokyo sex-doll factory in 2018, with headless dolls at varying stages of development strewn all around, one doll in particular catches Young's attention. Unlike the other dolls modelled on adult women, this one is small.
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Cryptic crossword

Arena Magazine no. 163

Dec 2019

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"Review(s) of: Full surrogacy now: Feminism against family, by Sophie Lewis, Verso, 2019.

Gestation for all genders? [Book Review]

Arena Magazine no. 163

Alison Caddick

Dec 2019

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Review(s) of: Full surrogacy now: Feminism against family, by Sophie Lewis, Verso, 2019.
"The Morrison government's foreign policy Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced his new approach to…

In the national interest?

Arena Magazine no. 163

Allan Behm

Dec 2019

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The Morrison government's foreign policy Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced his new approach to foreign policy at a Lowy Institute event in a speech entitled 'In Our Interest'. He did so without drawing on the experience of any of the 6000 or so members of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The superficiality of Morrison's policy pronouncement became evident when he constructed a straw man to launch an attack on what he described…
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New Arena Rising

Arena Magazine no. 163

Alison Caddick

Dec 2019

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"Review(s) of: Fully automated luxury communism: A manifesto, by Aaron Bastani (Verso, 2018).

Reduction to meme [Book Review]

Arena Magazine no. 163

Guy Rundle

Dec 2019

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Review(s) of: Fully automated luxury communism: A manifesto, by Aaron Bastani (Verso, 2018).
"Emergency climate politics and the state of exception In May 2019 the UK parliament passed…

Resisting the climate Leviathan

Arena Magazine no. 163

Angie Sassano

Dec 2019

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Emergency climate politics and the state of exception In May 2019 the UK parliament passed an extraordinary bipartisan national Environmental and Climate Emergency Declaration. Following weeks of protests by Extinction Rebellion (XR), which brought London to a standstill with its calls for the declaration of a climate emergency, the UK parliament heeded XR's demands in its declaration. This signals a shift in the workings of twenty-first-century politics, framed significantly by challenges of sustainability under the…
"The turbulent state of the Middle East The Middle East is on the boil more…

Regional inferno

Arena Magazine no. 163

Amin Saikal

Dec 2019

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The turbulent state of the Middle East The Middle East is on the boil more than could have been expected a decade ago. It has been transformed into a zone of conflicts within conflicts, which have bedevilled the region from Afghanistan to Syria to Palestine to Yemen to Libya. It has gained the notorious reputation of being the most unstable, turbulent and insecure region of the world. Authoritarianism, violent extremism, human rights violations, social and…