2022: Reckoning with Power and Privilege

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Australian voters ousting a nine-year-old Coalition government. A step towards instituting a First Nations Voice to Parliament. Rising tension between China and the US. Entrenched structures of authority have been challenged at home and around the world this year.
2022: Reckoning With Power and Privilege is a collection of The Conversation's most insightful essays from leading thinkers, explaining the potent forces that continue to shape our world - the winding back of abortion rights in the US, relations redefined in the Pacific, the UK Prime Minister forced to resign - and how those with the privilege of power don't always prevail.
Here is the inside guide to 2022's momentous events, bookended by the brutal invasion of Ukraine and a new head of the Commonwealth (not forgetting Shane Warne's sudden death, the wrapping up of Neighbours, and the rise of TikTok), written by the experts you can trust.
Contributors include:
Bronwyn Carlson
Jacob Deem
Prudence Flowers
Michelle Grattan
Matthew Horney
Peter Martin
Denis Muller
Kate Power
Chris Wallace
Hugh White
Zora Simic
Tim Soutphommasane
Paul Strangio
Ariadne Vromen

Sujets

• Covid
• criticism
• Ucrania
• Michelle Grattan
• The Conversation
• Russia
• 2022
• Conversation secrète
• Ukraine
• Russie

Informations

• Publié par: Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd
• Date de parution: 17 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781760763060
• Langue: English

Extrait

We wish to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where the authors and editors of this book live and work. Particularly, we wish to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which Australia s universities stand, the land on which field work has been conducted, and the land on which much of the research cited in this book has taken place. We pay respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia and M ori as tangata whenua in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Contents
Editor s note
Michael Hopkin
Deputy Chief of Staff, The Conversation
The year Australians turned the page
Michelle Grattan
Professional Fellow, University of Canberra
PART I The power of leadership
We have Australia s most diverse parliament yet, but there s still a long way to go
Tim Soutphommasane, University of Sydney
Making change, making history, making noise: Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame at the National Press Club
Michelle Arrow, Macquarie University
A short history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: An indelible reminder of unceded sovereignty
Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University
Lynda-June Coe, Macquarie University
Russia says peace in Ukraine will be on our terms , but what can the West accept and at what cost?
Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
In the wake of the China-Solomon Islands pact, Australia needs to rethink its Pacific relationships
Patricia A O Brien, Georgetown University
He s Australia s thirty-first prime minister. So who is Anthony Albanese? 30
Paul Strangio, Monash University
Charles has been proclaimed king. But who is Charles the man?
Giselle Bastin, Flinders University
PART II The power of hindsight
Even in the political afterlife, Morrison departs from the norm
Joshua Black, Australian National University
Morrison s multiple portfolios: Why the law has nothing to do with it
Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University Emily Millane, University of Melbourne
The election shows the conservative culture war on climate change could be nearing its end
Matthew Hornsey, University of Queensland
Cassandra Chapman, University of Queensland
Jacquelyn Humphrey, University of Queensland
How the reality-distorting machinery of the federal election campaign delivered sub-par journalism
Denis Muller, University of Melbourne
Boris Johnson says his time as UK PM was mission largely accomplished . How does that actually stack up?
Ben Wellings, Monash University
Protests, biznez and a failed coup: a front-row view of the empire Gorbachev allowed to collapse
Monica Attard, University of Technology Sydney
American exceptionalism: The poison that cannot protect its children from violent death
Emma Shortis, RMIT University
We lost the plot on COVID messaging. Now governments will have to be bold to get us back on track
Stephen Duckett, University of Melbourne
Sarah Duckett, King s College London
PART III The power to divide
Are Vladimir Putin s nuclear threats a bluff? In a word - probably
Matthew Sussex, Australian National University
If growing US-China rivalry leads to the worst war ever , what should Australia do?
Hugh White, Australian National University
US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade , but for abortion opponents, this is just the beginning
Prudence Flowers, Flinders University
How the US Supreme Court has become right-wing
Adrian Beaumont, The Conversation
Australia is failing marginalised people, and it shows in COVID death rates
Gemma Carey, UNSW Sydney Ben O Mara, UNSW Sydney
Long COVID should make us rethink disability and the way we offer support to those with invisible illness
Marie-Claire Seeley, University of Adelaide
By naming Pennhurst, Stranger Things uses disability trauma for entertainment. Dark tourism and asylum tours do too
Joanne Watson, Deakin University
Will NASA rename the James Webb Space Telescope in light of the Lavender Scare controversy?
Alice Gorman, Flinders University
PART IV The power to unite
How the James Webb deep-field images reminded me that the divide between art and science is artificial
Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney
Don t say the Aboriginal flag was freed . It belongs to us, not the Commonwealth
Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University
At once an open book and a master of disguise, Shane Warne had an allure that extended far beyond the cricket pitch
Chris Wallace, University of Canberra
Is the MeToo era a reckoning, a revolution, or something else?
Zora Simic, UNSW Sydney
From Charlene the mechanic to Australian TV s first gay marriage: Was Neighbours feminist?
Sarah Casey, University of the Sunshine Coast
Juliet Watson, RMIT University
Everyone loves Bandit from Bluey , but is he a lovable larrikin or just a bad dad?
David Burton, University of Southern Queensland
Kate Cantrell, University of Southern Queensland
PART V The power of nature
This is Australia s most important report on the environment s deteriorating health. We present its grim findings
Emma Johnston, University of Sydney
Ian Cresswell, UNSW Sydney
Terri Janke, UNSW Sydney
How not to solve the climate change problem
Kevin Trenberth, US National Center of Atmospheric Research University of Auckland
I simply haven t got it in me to do it again : Imagining a new heart for flood-stricken Lismore
Barbara Rugendyke, Southern Cross University
Jean S Renouf, Southern Cross University
Why the volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, and what to expect next
Shane Cronin, University of Auckland
Meet the world s largest plant, a single seagrass clone stretching 180 kilometres in Western Australia s Shark Bay
Elizabeth Sinclair, University of Western Australia
Gary Kendrick, University of Western Australia
Jane Edgeloe, University of Western Australia
Martin Breed, Flinders University
PART VI The power of money
How well off you are depends on who you are: Comparing the lives of Australia s millennials, generation Xers and baby boomers
Peter Abelson, Australian National University
I just go to school with no food : Why Australia must tackle child poverty to improve educational outcomes
Gerry Redmond, Flinders University
Yes, $5 for a lettuce is too much. Government should act to stem the rising cost of healthy eating
Christina Zorbas, Deakin University
Kathryn Backholer, Deakin University
Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule? An energy crisis has engulfed Australia
Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University
Frydenberg s March budget was an extraordinary turnaround, but it left a $40 billion problem
Richard Holden, UNSW Sydney
Wellbeing : It s why Labor s first budget will have more rigour than any before it
Peter Martin, The Conversation
Going to private school won t make a difference to your kid s academic scores
Sally Larsen, University of New England
Alexander Forbes, University of New England
Attending school every day counts, but kids in out-of-home care are missing out
Kitty Te Riele, University of Tasmania
Anna Sullivan, University of South Australia
Daryl Higgins, Australian Catholic University
Jesse King, Indigenous Knowledge Holder
Joseph McDowall, University of Queensland
Michael A Guerzoni, University of Tasmania
Rhonda Coopes, University of Southern Queensland
Sharon Bessell, Australian National University
Emily Rudling, University of Tasmania
PART VII The power of technology
This weird dinging sound that everyone dreads : What rapid deliveries mean for supermarket workers
Lauren Kate Kelly, RMIT University
Virtual influencers are here, but should Meta really be setting the ground rules?
Tama Leaver, Curtin University
Rachel Berryman, Curtin University
What do TikTok, Bunnings, eBay and Netflix have in common? They re all hyper-collectors
Brendan Walker-Munro, University of Queensland
NFTs: An overblown speculative bubble inflated by pop culture and cryptomania
John Hawkins, University of Canberra
PART VIII The power of hope
Albanese wants to change the way we do politics in Australia. Here are four ways to do it
Ariadne Vromen, Australian National University
The Albanese government has committed to enshrining a First Nations Voice in the Constitution. What do Australians think of the idea?
Jacob Deem, CQUniversity Australia
Adrian Miller, CQUniversity Australia
AJ Brown, Griffith University
Susan Bird, Charles Darwin University
What the Queen s death means for an Australian republic
John Warhurst, Australian National University
Please excuse me, is there a place for politeness in Australian politics?
Kate Power, University of Queensland
I am a climate scientist, and this is my plea to our newly elected politicians
Nerilie Abram, Australian National University
Editor s note
Michael Hopkin
Deputy Chief of Staff, The Conversation
Power and privilege: two words thrown into sharp relief by the biggest news events of 2022. In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin shocked the world by brutally invading Ukraine in a ruthlessly territorial power grab. In May, Australian voters handed Anthony Albanese the privilege of forming government - just the fifth time Labor has come to power from opposition since World War I. And in September, we bade farewell to Queen Elizabeth II after her unprecedented 70-year reign, and found ourselves wondering what kind of monarch King Charles III will be - and whether his reign may even be the one that ushers in an Australian republic.
Although this is in one sense simply a collection of the best essays published by The Conversation s Australia and New Zealand edition during 2022, there is also a unifying theme that runs through the book. All of the pieces published here confront, in some way, questions of power and privilege, and how they manifest themselves in our world.
In these pages, Michelle Arrow describes how the bravery of Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame in speaking up against entrenched pow