By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2011
Writing at Open Democracy, Sara Silvestri makes an excellent argument about the massacres in Norway, and how we should act to avoid their repetition.
Posted in Disasters, Europe, Featured, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Terrorism | Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, Culture, Europe, norway, Religion, Sara Silvestri, Sociology, Terrorism, violence |
By Anna Winter on July 25, 2011
WA’s Attorney General wants to give parents legal rights over their children’s Facebook pages. Miranda Devine, in her typically careful way with words, describes social media as “barbarism, unleashing the worst elements of human nature, with no restraints” and quotes [...]
Posted in Culture, Featured, Relationships, The Web | Tagged anonymity, bullying, christian porter, Culture, cyber-bullying, email, facebook, google, Marshall McLuhan, Miranda Devine, pseudonyms, social media, Sociology, trolls, twitter |
By Kim on September 4, 2010
There’s an interesting article in The Australian today by Gabrielle Chan, looking at the rural discontent embodied in the rhetoric of the country Independents: The 2010 episode of “bush leverage” is a result of a backlash by conservatives against a [...]
Posted in Australiana, Economics, federal election 2010, Howardia, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, country independents, Culture, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, hung parliament, John Howard, Nationals, neo-liberalism, neocons, Paul Keating, Pauline Hanson, Red Ted Theodore, rural and regional economies, Sociology, the bush, The Greens, tony windsor |
By Kim on June 27, 2010
I admire Julia Gillard and always have. Those who’ve been around here for a long time, and have long memories, might recall that I was backing Gillard enthusiastically when Kim Beazley’s leadership was on its last legs. I welcome and [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Feminism, Politics, Relationships | Tagged agency, ALP, ambition, Anne Summers, Apology, care, Culture, Disasters, Ethics, fear, Federal election 2007, Feminism, first female PM, fluidity, hope, insecurity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Labor, Labor leadership, liquid lives, Politics, press conference, risk society, second modernity, Shakira Hussein, Sociology, spill, stolen generations, structure, trust, work, workplace, workplace culture |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010
As an addendum to Robert’s post on the Rudd government’s announcement of the appointment of Tony Burke as Population Minister, and the call for a national debate on population policy, I wanted to pick up on another aspect of Bernard [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, History, Howardia, Immigration, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, bernard keane, Big Australia, boat people, border policing, border security, Culture, discourses, History, Immigration, immigration debate, insularity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Andrews, labor party, Lowy Institute, One Nation, political communication, political culture, poll, population policy, Race, racism, rhetoric, Rudd government, Scott Morrison, survey, Tony Burke |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2010
Overland editor Jeff Sparrow has a great piece in Crikey today, reflecting on the significance of Christopher Monckton’s tour of Australia. If you’re not signed up, I’d strongly urge you to take out a trial subscription to read the whole [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Christopher Monckton, climate change denialism, climate change policy, Coalition, Crikey, Culture, Culture Wars, elites, emotion, Jeff Sparrow, knowledge, Liberal Party, Menzies, nature, overland, populism, rationality, Science, science studies, Sociology, Tony Abbott |
By Guest Poster on January 14, 2010
My mate Tim Watts, who’s been doing some great work online on violent racist incidents in Melbourne, has provided this guest post. Previous discussion of the spate of attacks on Indian students at LP can be found here. -MB “I’m [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Crime, Culture, Education, Ethics, Immigration, International, Media, Melbourne, Politics, Race, Sociology, The Web | Tagged assaults, attacks, Australia, Australia India Business council, causation, complacency, correlation, Crime, criminology, Culture, denial, disavowal, facebook, google maps, hate crime, Indian students, mapping, Melbourne, Neville Broad, Peter Varghese, police, policing, Politics, racism, simon overland, Sociology, statistics, tim watts, Victoria police, violent incidents, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
Posted in Activism, Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, History, International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Technology | Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Apocalypse, Capitalism, Climate change, climate change denialism, collective action, conservatism, contingency, Culture, disavowal, ecology, end of history, Energy, History, ideology, necessity, neo-liberalism, non-renewable resources, peak oil, Politics, resources, Science, Slavoj Žižek, the imaginary, utopia, world politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 8, 2009
I’ve had a stab, in a guest post over at Overland, at looking at how the tendencies we’ve always had to succumbing to magical thinking make climate change a very difficult challenge for politics – particularly when we need to [...]
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Bruno Latour, Climate change, climate change policy, cultural politics, Culture, epistemology, knowledge, Mark Bahnisch, nature, overland, political theory, Science, science studies, Sociology |
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