Odette Shenfield
Odette Shenfield is an editor of demos journal.
Days of Rage – In Conversation with Judy Turner
In 1971, when the South African Springboks toured Australia and played at Manuka Oval in Canberra, Judy Turner was on of 49 people arrested protesting against South Africa’s apartheid policy. After an elaborate, month-in-the-making scheme concocted by ANU students to...
“A World Where It’s Easier to Make Friends”: Discussing Socialism, Activism and Legal Education with Professor John Buchanan
Professor John Buchanan is the Head of the Discipline of Business Analytics at the University of Sydney Business School. From 1979-1984, he was an undergraduate student of History and Law at the ANU. During that time, he helped establish the ANU Left Group, a large...
“Are You Fucking Serious?” – A Response to Student Union Supporters of Nuclear Energy
– by Roxley Foley, introduction by Odette Shenfield At the 2015 National Union of Students National Confernece, the Labor Right faction (Student Unity) submitted a motion supporting nuclear energy. The motion lauded South Astralian Premier Jay Weatherill’s...
Futures Possible
The future is arguably the defining concern of progressive politics. We strive for a better future, and believe the present is insufficient. It is fundamentally conservative to suggest that how it is now is as good as it will ever be. However, politics at both a...
How to Make Trouble*: Three Climate Activists in Conversation
– Judy Kuo and Tom Swann in interview with Odette Shenfield When Fossil Free ANU began in 2011, it was one of the first fossil fuel divestment campaigns in the world. At the time, the coal seam gas company Metgasco was planning on fracking in the Norther Rivers of...
Oscillating Futures: Visions of Apocalypse Amongst Climate Activists
– Claire Gardner interviewed by Odette Shenfield Claire Gardner is a recent graduate from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society. She spent her Honours year researching visions of the apocalypse amongst climate activists with 350.org. We sat down to...
Resistance
Resistance can fuel our passion, validate our convictions or break our spirit. The pursuit of resisting may be undertaken out of necessity or through choice. With these motives in hand we will judge the convictions of others and be strongly judged in return. Here at...
The Role of Radical Publishers: An Interview with PM Press founder Ramsey Kanaan
– Ramsey Kanaan interviewed by Odette Shenfield PM Press’ Stall at the World Social Forum At the 2016 World Social Forum in Montreal, I sat down to talk to Ramsey Kanaan, founder of PM Press. PM Press is a radical publisher based out of Oakland, California. I first...
Learning the Language of the Enemy: An Interview with Matthew Zagor
– Matthew Zagor interviewed by Odette Shenfield Matthew Zagor is an Associate Professor in Law and a specialist in refugee law. Last semester, I was privileged to study his course in refugee law. As an educator, he incites in his students passion and dedication for...
Voices from the Grassroots
It has recently been an active time around the Australian National University, with voices pooled to fight for shared interests. We are fighting significant cuts to the School of Culture, History, and Language, vast changes that will impact life at the Bruce and...
Articulating Silence
In aspiring to publish those voices that are marginalised, misrepresented and ignored by mainstream publishing, it was inevitable that we would come to muse on the meaning of silence. Silence is commonplace in political rhetoric and yet it is seldom critically...
Protecting the Forest at New Heights
The Story Behind the Little Red Toolangi Treehouse – Odette Shenfield interviews Hannah Patchett In 2013, Hannah Patchett spent a month in the Little Red Toolangi Treehouse to protest logging in the Toolangi State Forest. During her time there, she garnered widespread...
Beyond National Security: An Interview with Scott Ludlam
– Odette Shenfield interviews Scott Ludlam On December 1st, in the wake of the Paris attacks and during the Paris Climate Negotiations, I sat down with Greens Senator Scott Ludlam to talk about national security. Why do you think the discourse of national security is...
Creating Demos
To introduce the exciting diversity of voices that make up the first edition of Demos Journal, we embark upon a reflection on the relation between democracy and creativity itself. Demos Journal set out to create something new: a community committed to deconstructing...Past Issues
