Issue 10:
CRISIS
The change and ruptures in our personal and collective lives, still lingers.
The Pandemic of Distance
‘Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.’ – Ibn Khaldun The pandemic crisis has...
Democratic Crises and Degrowth
The health-cum-economic crisis of COVID-19 has exposed many weaknesses of contemporary governance. These weaknesses are associated with representative democracy, which simply offers citizens a right to vote every few years, a mere choice between a small number of...
Hadfield Shops
In the morning, the noise of the trucks from the distant freeway has stopped. There is just the sound of the wind blowing on the gate outside my window and, every now and then, a bird tweeting. I wheel my bike onto the street. There are only five reasons to leave...
‘Panorama’ ‘The Political Alabaster’ ‘Administrative Disaster’
Panorama Blackness is a pleasure. I can imagine the long line of women who look like me & wonder where their bodies end & mine begins. Flesh of chocolate A face checked by the hand of God. My DNA is made of blood, sweat & tears.’ I was formed by the...
Sunday Night Trysts
Our days of rest are passed in silent prayer Before the promise of our teenage courtship Convinces us to do away with care And sees us come together, lip to lip. Within his bed and veiled in whitest sheet, Our hidden love evades forbidding eye, As I anoint and humbly...
‘Viva La Nannalution!’: Using craftivism to transform crisis into social movement
The story of the Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed (KNAG) begins in 2012. A handful of older women joined an anti-coal seam gas (CSG) group in Lismore NSW. They wanted to take action when the Northern Rivers area of NSW was being targeted for CSG mining by...
On social memory and the Chilean political crisis
The word crisis refers to different meanings. It can refer to a tension of two or more different “forces” or tendencies, whose clash creates a conflict (for example, in van der Poel, 2019). Another meaning of crisis is the idea of a decisive moment of change. For...
We are again reminded of the violence of borders
Early on the morning of 2 March 2020, a small vessel full of refugees from across the Middle East arrived at the shores of Lesvos. It was the latest of the over 70 irregular boats documented since the turn of the year. Locals gathered nearby. Videos quickly circulated...
Crisis
This is no time of crisis. Crisis is a tempest roving shore to shore Not gentle rain on subtle tour. A crisis forges sickles for every Soul. Scoops up the seconds, craves every hour, Reaches past the cupboard and eats the cobwebs. A crisis inks over everything, writes...
What are we talking about when we talk about a crisis in masculinity?
Masculinity is in crisis. This is a readily agreed upon view amongst many scholars, pop psychologists and media figures alike. Examining declining educational achievement, high suicide rates, and a growing cohort of ‘angry men’ determined to reclaim a lost sense of...
Re-thinking crisis with Hannah Arendt: Neoliberalism Against the Common World
“In every crisis a piece of the world, something common to us all, is destroyed. The failure of common sense, like a divining rod, points to the place where such a cave-in has occurred. Hannah Arendt, ‘Truth and Politics’, Between Past and Future Hannah Arendt’s...
Together
Draw me a picture of mountains, child. Sketch creatures, trees, flowers, butterflies and birds flying, swept high by winds in wild skies. Together, we will name these denizens of nature, make up words to pattern silent pages, (echoes of our almost empty world,...
The Glimpse
Calvin hauled the mattress out of the boot. He had it draped over the bonnet and up the windscreen by the time Ngaire back. ‘The blokes in the first car say about twenty hours,’ she said as she climbed up beside him. She could feel the windscreen wiper poking through...Past Issues
