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Leah House

The ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment took place on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Land, where the legacy of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, as one of the longest ongoing protest sites for Indigenous rights, is impossible to ignore. First Nations here in so called australia have resisted colonisation for over two centuries.

Leah House

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, ...

Sherine Al Shallah

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 offer...

Anitra Nelson

Vincent Liegey

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 Poe...

Nicolas Villarroel

‘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 ...

Larraine J. Larri

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 ...

Richard A. Vogt

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 sui...

Simon Copland

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 occu...

Scott Robinson

Students and Aboriginal Rights – From 1965 to Now

When most people think of contemporary student activism, they think of students campaigning around federal education policy or local campus issues. Student environmentalism or stud...

Andy Mason

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 aparth...

Odette Shenfield

Archaeologies of the Future: Visions of the Future in Blockbuster Science Fiction Films, 1980 – 2016

Growing up, I was obsessed with science fiction. For one glorious, youthful summer I read nothing but science fiction from the 1960s. I’ve seen Starship Troopers at least 18 times...

Galvin Chia

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 tim...

Odette Shenfield

Make Postmodernism Great Again: On the Ills of Blaming Theory for Trump

With the election of Donald Trump, the vote for Brexit and the rise of right wing populism, we have supposedly entered the post-truth era. Truth is not only under suspicion, it is ...

Duncan Stuart

Decolonising the University: Lessons from Oceania

In October 2013, students and staff at the University of Hawaiʻi painted this mural on their campus in Honolulu. The mural was painted in protest of the University’s involvement in...

Bianca Hennessy

Cultural Mixing in the Globalised World

The concept of cultural mixing is strongly felt in today’s world where the boundaries between nation states, people and communities are more porous than ever before. On the border ...

Esther Carlin

Indigenous Education and Western Boundaries

‘ The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts ’ C.S. Lewis, 1943 [1] ‘ Through the My School website we have for the first time developed a ...

Charlotte Goodman

White People in Indigenous Affairs: A Conservator’s Perspective

I am a privileged, white Australian on the precipice of a new career as a conservator. My training is in the classical western tradition of conservation, which favours the material...

Hanna Sandgren

Diaspora Consciousness: Fluid or Rootless?

It is 2000, the year of the Sydney Olympics, when my parents decide to emigrate to Australia. Their grounds are valid — they are tired of high crime rates, class and racial tension...

Vee Naidoo

Where are the Women? In Search of a New Queer History

In the summer of 2011 I was consumed, as I suspect many fifteen year olds are, with the dual pursuits of Photoshopping images of celebrities to make them look like they were about ...

Lauretta Flack

The Corporatisation of Anti-Capitalism

My interest in environmental conservation was inspired early on by an acquaintance with a pair of old-school activists. I was young and impressionable, and their infectious reveren...

Mia Stone

Claim the Sky!

The atmosphere is a community asset that belongs to all of us. The problem is that it is currently an open access resource—anyone can emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere with n...

Robert Costanza

The Truth about Westerners: a fictitious email exchange

Friday 01/04/2016 From: Mai Nguyen Subject: Being Asian in the West   Dear Dr Kim, I hope you don’t mind me emailing you out of the blue. Last year I took your course on “Cont...

Dr Kim Huynh

Collective Responsibility and the Root of All Evil

Within Hannah Arendt’s classic New Yorker essay, ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ (1963) and subsequent book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), an alternat...

Reid Hutchins

Silence: An Absent Presence?

F or the most part, scholarly literature illustrates silence as a state that is predominantly characterized by an absence. [1] The defining features most frequently attributed to ...

Udeni Appuhamilage

Complicity and the Lolita Complex

In my life, art and pop culture have helped me understand and navigate the confusing world around me. There are few things more intimate than reading, watching or hearing something...

Codie Bell

Decolonising Queer* Identities

I’ve always thought that queerness was about living and thriving in the margins. It’s about fighting for rights, right? And ‘rethinking relationships’, and challenging dominate ide...

Isabel Mudford

Silence and The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz introduced the Western world to ketman , or the practice of concealing ones true motives or beliefs to give the outward appearance of conforming to authority. A Pol...

Reid Hutchins

Res Publica: The Early Days of a Better World

1. Respublica Scotorum I took this photograph a week or so before the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. The placard, leant on a rucksack on an autumn pavement, was part of a s...

Paul Maharg

State of the Arts

Public Funding and Why it Matters If we start with the basic idea that the arts, in their many forms, from theatre, music, and film to visual practice, enrich, challenge, and comfo...

Esther Carlin

The Romanticisation of the Tortured Artist

For a long time, I remained convinced that the only difference between myself and others was the permanent scowl I carried with me everywhere. The turmoil of my internal state and ...

Sasha Isaac