| Title | : | Meanjin 2018 Vol 77 No 3 Spring |
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| ISBN | : | 0522873650 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780522873658 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 212 |
| Publication | : | First published September 1, 2018 |
In her lead essay in the Spring edition of Meanjin, author Jane Rawson wonders at the unfolding tragedy of our moment: we are living through a mass extinction. By 2020 we will have lost 70% of animal life on the planet.
‘There is only the tiniest whisper of wildness left on the landmasses of this planet and that tiny whisper is on the brink of going silent… Everything—all of it—will soon be us.'
Plus: Bruce Pascoe, Fatima Measham, Katharine Murphy, Jonno Revanche, Gray Connolly, Robyn Williams, Sheila Ngoc Pham, Anne Casey, Ben Walter and Shaun Micallef."
Meanjin 2018 Vol 77 No 3 Spring Reviews
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I loved a lot of things about this edition, particularly the essays by Bruce Pascoe and Belinda Rule. I am however starting to suspect Meanjin run Shannon Burns essays precisely because they know they will subsequently get spot-on responses by women/poc and then they get to feel good for publishing those people AND please whoever it is that likes Burns' monofocal rants.
I am so far behind in my Meanjin reading that it's no longer worth keeping up the subscription, at least not until I can afford to re-subscribe to the hard copy. I'm sad about that, because I make this decision just as the Australia Council funding announcements came out, and Meanjin didn't get their funding. Neither did The Lifted Brow, though, and I will retain my subscription to them. -
I'm in this one!
Highlights for me:
Some awesome migrant stories: Fikret Pajalic's Teeth and Grazyna Zajdow's Szymon in Spain, Zajdow also with some interesting reflections about the limitations of the narrativisation of other people's (indeed, even one's own) suffering.
Gray Connolly's Conservatism Amid the Ruins - this was interesting in that so many of the theoretical values of conservatism articulated here sound so appealing. Should one be encouraged or discouraged by this, when its practical policy agenda is so unappealing?
Bruce Pascoe, Australia: Temper and Bias - amazing material about Aboriginal agricultural technology in this rightfully angry piece.
