Pub Date : 2021-03-08DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884478
Shannon Marie Peck-Bartle
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Pub Date : 2021-03-06DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2021.1886500
William F. S. Miles
Of all the ethno-religious minorities pained by the passage of Israel’s “nation-state” Basic Law of July 2018, none have expressed as much hurt as the Druze citizens of the Jewish state.1 Colloquially known as the “nationality law,” the legislation both defines Israel as the “nation state of the Jewish people” and reserves only to Jews the “right to self-determination in the State of Israel.” Understanding the depth of Druze outrage requires an understanding of the evolution of Israeli Druze society and the implications of this populist legislation. It also requires a historical sense of consequences of the colonial partition of the Druze into Syria, Lebanon and Palestine-Israel. This analysis is based on more than seven months of fieldwork, spanning five years, in a Druze village near the Israeli-Lebanese border. Hundreds of hours in discussion with interlocutors spanned the four years leading up to passage of the nationality law as well as the year following it. For sure, parliamentary ratification of a collective destiny for Israel’s Jewish citizens alone, and the concomitant elimination of Arabic as an official language, outrage those Israeli citizens who identify with Islam and Christianity rather than with Judaism and Jewry. Along with the Druze, these other first-language speakers of Arabic make up a full 20 percent of the Israeli population. But neither of these other groups has identified so closely with the Jewish majority as have the Druze. Coincidentally comprising virtually the same percentage of the Israeli population as do Jews of the United States (around 1.8%), rightly or wrongly the Druze are known in the wider societies they inhabit by three generalities. The first is the secret nature of their religion. The second is their loyalty to the state in which they live. (In Israel, this takes the form of willingness to serve in the security services of the Jewish State: the Israel Defence Forces [IDF], the Border Patrol, the police, the prison services.) The third is Druze attachment to their land (mostly in the Galilee, for those of Israel). Superficial understanding of these long-standing stereotypes, however, leads to misconceptions that threaten the famous “blood pact” between Druze and Jews.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884483
Valerie Bondura
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Pub Date : 2021-03-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884487
G. Otsuki
Since its first detection in China in December 2019, COVID-19 has spread with alarming speed and lethality, thoroughly transforming daily life around the world in ways that few could have foreseen. As of late 2020, millions have been infected and hundreds of thousands have been killed. There is little doubt that this decade will be defined by the pandemic. But while COVID has caused much confusion, anxiety and uncertainty, it has inspired little bemusement. Except for what it did to toilet paper. Soon after the disease began breaching international borders, the internet was inundated with photos and videos of store shelves emptied of toilet paper by harried customers. The shelves were empty not just in the places where COVID had become established but also in places such as New Zealand, where I am based and where the disease had yet to materially impact the day-to-day lives of most people. Almost overnight, there was an explosion of memes ridiculing the irrationality of toilet paper hoarders and of blog posts and news stories addressing the strangeness of the phenomenon. To be sure, toilet paper was not the only item in short supply. Surgical masks and alcohol-based hand sanitizers were also difficult to find. But a run on those items was understandable. For toilet paper, it was less so. What was the meaning, then, behind this flurry of attention, talk, meme-ing, writing and photographing focused on toilet paper? Much of the early academic commentary came from psychologists, who suggested that the run on toilet paper was a combined consequence of herd behavior and people’s need for psychological security during deeply uncertain times. But little of it addressed the basic question, Why toilet paper? It turns out that toilet paper has many layers. Some have to do with the symbolic meanings that modern societies (or at least their Western versions) have assigned to it. Others have to do with the particular political and psychological security that toilet paper gives people. And of course, toilet paper is very useful. These layers considered together begin to reveal why toilet paper should become what the anthropologist Sherry Ortner once called a “key symbol” during troubled times.1
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Pub Date : 2021-03-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884482
G. Kunnath
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Pub Date : 2021-03-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1884485
E. Buch, Jessica C. Robbins
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Pub Date : 2021-03-03DOI: 10.1080/19428200.2020.1885874
J. Tsoneva
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in early spring 2020, the Bulgarian economy shed a record 120,000 jobs in just six weeks. The unemployed stormed the offices of the National Employment Agency, overburdening its underprotected employees. While other affected countries rolled out variants of basic income or debt freezing, the Bulgarian government elided labor-friendly economic measures by maligning them as “populism.”1 Relying on little to no savings, the newly unemployed coped with the rapidly contracting labor markets and unresponsive welfare state in observable ways. With a faltering formal economy, a moral economy enmeshing people in dependencies on kin and friends kicked in to provide “firebreaks” to rapidly deteriorating living standards. This article focuses on these dynamics and asks what possibilities for progressive social change inhere in the moral economy.
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