Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.840.22
L. Morgan
The 2022 US Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturned the constitutional right to abortion, raising questions about the international implications of the ruling. The Dobbs decision reveals a growing rift in global reproductive governance between countries that rely on international human rights standards and those that do not. The global momentum is currently with the human rights contingent, but the Dobbs ruling reflects the logic of a global antiabortion coalition that would like each country to decide its own life and family laws, without interference from multilateral agencies, based on its own constitution, history, and traditions.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.840.29
M. Franklin
Music and politics have always been closely intertwined. Throughout history, political regimes have appropriated musical works for their own purposes, while musicians have expressed their own political views through their work—whether in the lyrics or in the music itself. Some pieces have become closely associated with certain political events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall. Today, digital streaming services have brought a vast menu of global musical choices to consumers, but algorithmic recommendations could shape playlists in ways that serve political agendas or reinforce Western conventions.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.839.366
Anny Gaul
A study of the making and regulation of subsidized bread in Jordan shows how bakers mediate between the state and the public in precarious times.
一项关于约旦补贴面包的制作和监管的研究表明，在不稳定时期，面包师如何在国家和公众之间进行调解。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.839.350
Daniele Cantini
Universities played a central role in Egypt’s 2011 revolution and were heavily affected by the subsequent return to military rule. Egyptian universities have a long history as settings where young activists engage in political action. Today they are institutions with a changing role and scope. The expansion of private, for-profit institutions of higher education over the past decade has called into question the traditional model of public universities with access guaranteed by the state, while campuses have been largely silenced as forums of activism.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.839.338
Kamilia Al-Eriani
Yemen’s perpetual security crisis and excess violence have long been blamed on a weak or failed state. Who needs this narrative, and to what end? This article explains how outside powers and local elites for decades have contrived to keep the Yemeni state feeble or absent. These “ghostly politics” have provided impunity for repression and fomented power struggles, culminating in the war that has ravaged the country for seven years. Now an internationally backed peace plan envisions fragmenting the state even further.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.839.356
A massive urban renewal project in Jeddah, the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia, has entailed the demolition of many historic quarters with substantial immigrant and working-class populations. Neighborhoods have been targeted with little warning or provision of compensation or alternative housing for many displaced residents. The project is intended to create modern new districts as part of a national economic agenda, but it risks erasing the unique cosmopolitan character of the Red Sea port city.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.839.331
Fanar Haddad
There is little to celebrate as the twentieth anniversary of the “new Iraq” approaches. This essay seeks to shed light on the nature of the governing system that has emerged over the past two decades, and the fissures that have appeared in Iraqi politics at the time of writing. Iraq today is a vastly different place from when it last dominated Western headlines. Taking stock of the profound transformations of the intervening years is crucial to understanding where Iraq is today and where it might be headed.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.839.363
Waleed Hazbun
After years of disruption from war and the pandemic, tourism in the region is rebounding, with the Gulf states emerging as leading destinations. But sustainability remains elusive.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.839.344
Seçil Dağtaș, Şule Can
The displacement of Syrians into Turkey is approaching its twelfth year, but the conditions of Syrian presence in the country are still fraught with ambivalence. The dramatic changes in migration and border dynamics and the instrumentalization of Syrian migrants in Turkish politics have intensified racially motivated animosity. Yet in border provinces where Syrians are densely concentrated, popular attitudes toward them operate on other axes, which reveal complex entanglements of border politics, migration policies, and citizenship ideologies. This essay describes how these entanglements unfold in the country’s southernmost border province, Hatay, which was controversially annexed from French Mandate Syria in 1939.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.838.304
B. Xiang
The pandemic has ushered in drastic new restrictions on the right to move, as governments have imposed lockdowns in more or less organized ways. In pursuit of its zero-COVID policy, China has gone farther than most in the extent and rigor of its mobility restrictions. Responsibility for enforcement has been redistributed to lower-level officials, landlords, and migrant labor agencies, while food delivery companies and others in the mobility business have thrived. These redistributions of mobility are likely to remain in place beyond the pandemic, changing relations between government and citizens.
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