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Editor's Introduction : Revisiting Literary Utopias and Dystopias : Some New Genres,
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Since Thomas More's first use of the word utopia in 1516 it has conjured multiple and ambiguous connotations. Utopia and its defining antithesis dystopia can be articulations of what we wish to become or to avoid becoming, an investigation of hope and the potential for transformation. Utopias can evoke dichotomies between the liberal realisation and the impossible ideal (Kumar 1991); or a contrast between the concrete and closed social plan as opposed to the impetus toward hope in the small details of various cultural contexts (Jameson 2006).
(Source : Social Alternatives : Utopias Dystopias : Alternative Visions, 2009)
- Why Australia?i"...this hills hoist", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Staying Alivei"she wakes", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Work Smarti"Want serious money?", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Salvation Army Hosteli"Each morning", single work poetry (p. 28)
- The Victimi"he thrust", single work poetry (p. 28)
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Back to the Future in Dead Europe,
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(p. 39-41)Dead Europe is a phenomenal and terrible act of imaginative writing. Robert Manne (not unjustifiably) has already criticized its use of 'some of the oldest and most consequential anti-Semitic libels' (2005, 53). Briefly, the book tells the story of Isaac Rafits, a homosexual Greek Australian photographer who travels back to Europe to locate two ancestral legacies in Greece. The first is in his mother's village, where a curse was unleashed on his family because his grandparents murdered a young Jewish boy in the Second World War, a boy they had sworn to protect. His father's Greek, Communist Party membership badge is Isaac's second legacy and he carries the badge with him throughout his travels. And so begins Isaac's modern day pilgrimage through Western Europe. This article goes on to describe the dystopian future which Dead Europe imagines in the time tense of the 'future-present', wherein Tsiolkas creates the world as a warning; a world which demands a new Enlightenment.
(Source : Social Alternatives : Utopias Dystopias : Alternative Visions, 2009)
- A Christmas Card Listi"is saved in Household Files", single work poetry (p. 56)
- A Utopic Reflection, single work criticism (p. 57-59)
- Zarathustrai"It is not without a wrench I have", single work poetry (p. 59)
- Having a Field Day, single work short story (p. 60-63)
- Bent Nailsi"There were plenty of witnesses.", single work poetry (p. 63)
- My Uncle's Facei"The coast road is a long and straight line", single work poetry (p. 66)
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Towards Peace, Equity and Sustainability
2018
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— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 32 no. 2 2018; (p. 27-30)'Stilwell discusses the need for Social Alternatives, a journal that has been a focal point for progressive thought in Australia since its inception, to continue with analysis and debate with issues concerning peace, equity and sustainability. Concerns with these issues is obvious and ongoing as events and processes currently reshaping the world around us, making it more liable to violence, inequality, and economic and environmental crisis, require our collective attention, analysis and activism.' (Publication abstract)
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Why the Alternative?
2018
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— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 32 no. 2 2018; (p. 18-20)'Maddox discusses various political events that took place in Australia since Social Alternatives was launched forty years ago. The very name, Social Alternatives, implies that something is wrong, that change needs to be made. The journal emerged shortly after a political crisis in 1975 that destroyed not only any sensible reading of the Australian Constitution, but also undermined people's faith in the electoral system as a means of allowing fair representation of the people's interests. The crisis put Australian society in a turmoil. It left the progressive side of politics in disarray, if not abject despair.' (Publication abstract)
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Political Economy : What Can (still) Be Done?
2018
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— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 32 no. 2 2018; (p. 14-17)'Dow commemorates the 40th anniversary of Social Alternatives by discussing his hopes and disappointments of the past forty years in terms of the politics of economic policy in Australia. He has written in the first issue of Social Alternatives, together with Jon Stanford, the economic crisis then emerging (unemployment and inflation, signaling the end of the long postwar boom) was driven more by policy mistakes, institutional belligerence and political error than by global forces over which Australia had insufficient domestic or deliberative control. Over the ensuing four decades, he haven't altered his diagnosis much; although it does need to be augmented now to reflect his realization that ideas and analyses are insufficient for policy critique.' (Introduction)
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Political Economy : What Can (still) Be Done?
2018
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— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 32 no. 2 2018; (p. 14-17)'Dow commemorates the 40th anniversary of Social Alternatives by discussing his hopes and disappointments of the past forty years in terms of the politics of economic policy in Australia. He has written in the first issue of Social Alternatives, together with Jon Stanford, the economic crisis then emerging (unemployment and inflation, signaling the end of the long postwar boom) was driven more by policy mistakes, institutional belligerence and political error than by global forces over which Australia had insufficient domestic or deliberative control. Over the ensuing four decades, he haven't altered his diagnosis much; although it does need to be augmented now to reflect his realization that ideas and analyses are insufficient for policy critique.' (Introduction)
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Why the Alternative?
2018
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— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 32 no. 2 2018; (p. 18-20)'Maddox discusses various political events that took place in Australia since Social Alternatives was launched forty years ago. The very name, Social Alternatives, implies that something is wrong, that change needs to be made. The journal emerged shortly after a political crisis in 1975 that destroyed not only any sensible reading of the Australian Constitution, but also undermined people's faith in the electoral system as a means of allowing fair representation of the people's interests. The crisis put Australian society in a turmoil. It left the progressive side of politics in disarray, if not abject despair.' (Publication abstract)
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Towards Peace, Equity and Sustainability
2018
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— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 32 no. 2 2018; (p. 27-30)'Stilwell discusses the need for Social Alternatives, a journal that has been a focal point for progressive thought in Australia since its inception, to continue with analysis and debate with issues concerning peace, equity and sustainability. Concerns with these issues is obvious and ongoing as events and processes currently reshaping the world around us, making it more liable to violence, inequality, and economic and environmental crisis, require our collective attention, analysis and activism.' (Publication abstract)
