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Overview
Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analytical promise of Michel Foucault's insight that modern institutions and their power to have productive, not merely repressive or coercive, capacities—though Massad also stresses their continued repressive function.
His argument is advanced by a consideration of evidence, including images produced by state tourist agencies aimed at attracting Western visitors, the changing and precarious position of women in the newly constructed national space, and such practices as soccer games, music, songs, food, clothing, and shifting accents and dialects.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780231123228 |
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Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
Publication date: | 09/11/2001 |
Pages: | 276 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
Lexile: | 1700L (what's this?) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
IntroductionLaw, Military, and Discipline
Tradition and Modernity
Historical Moments
Part I: Codifying the Nation: Law and the Articulation of National Identity in Jordan
The Prehistory of Juridical Postcoloniality
National Time
National Space
National Territory and Paternity
Nationalizing Non-Nationals
Losing Nationality: The Law Giveth and the Law Taketh Away
Women and Children
Part II: Different Spaces as Different Times: Law and Geography in Jordanian Nationalism
Different Species of Citizens: Women and Bedouins
Bedouins and National Citizenship
Nationalist Tribalism or Tribalist Nationalism: The Debate
Jordanian Culture in an International Frame
Women Between the Public and Private Spheres
Women in Public
Women and Politics
Part III: Cultural Syncretism or Colonial Mimic Men: Jordan's Bedouins and the Military Basis of National Identity
The Bedouin Choice
Cultural Imperialism and Discipline
Cultural Cross-Dressing as Epistemology
Imperialism as Educator
Masculinity, Culture, and Women
Transforming the Bedouins
Persuasion, Education, and Surveillance
Part IV: Nationalizing the Military: Colonial Legacy as National Heritage
Anticolonial Nationalism and the Army
King Husayn and the Nationalist Officers
Clash of the Titans: Glubb Pasha and the Uneasy King
"Arabizing" the Jordanian Army
The Palace Coup and the End of an Era
Palace Repression and the Forgiving King
Palestinians and the Military
Threatening the Nation's Masculinity and Religious "Tradition"
The Military and the New Jordan
Colonial or National Legacy
Part V: The Nation as an Elastic Entity: The Expansion and Contraction of Jordan
Expanding the Nation: The Road to Annexation
The Jericho Conference
The New Jordan
Palestinians and the West Bank
Competing Representatives: The PLO and Jordan
Toward Civil War
A New Nationalist Era
Clothes, Accents, and Football: Asserting PostCivil War Jordanianness
Contracting the Nation: The Road to "The Severing of Ties"
Who Is Jordanian?
Concluding Remarks
What People are Saying About This
A work of genuine brilliance, as much for its searing insights into Jordanian history and culture as for its extraordinary mastery of the vast material it deploys. It is rare to encounter a pathbreaking book: this is certainly one.
Well written and tightly argued.... One of the best of the new crop of studies that deal with the evolution of national identity in the Middle East.
Rashid Khalidi, University of Chicago
Massad asks how a national identity could emerge in a country established, ruled, and peopled to a significant extent by outsiders. His subtle analysis of the ways cultural politics and coercive power interact is an original and important contribution to the political theory of nationalism.
Timothy Mitchell, New York University
There has thus long been an obvious need to turn attention from poets and playwrights as nation-builders to other, surely politically more central kinds of actors, like generals or judges. A growing number of scholars, dealing with many different parts of the colonial and postcolonial worlds, are indeed now making that turn. Joseph Massad's study of Jordanian nationalidentity is among its most sophisticated and impressive products. He focuses on the institutions of the law and the military, and shows very effectively how crucial these were to the creation and definition of nationality. It is a detailed, convincingly documented account -- and one which also ranges well beyond its central focus on the army and the legal system to proposestimulating insights into other aspects of the foundations of a modern political identity, from the invention of new 'national' costumes and cuisines to the elaboration of a novel conception of 'national time.'
Stephen Howe, Interventions: International Journal of Post Colonial Studies
A distinguished addition to the growing field of studies of anticolonial nationalism -- distinguished especially because it focuses less on culture and more on law and the military. A welcome reminder that the modern nation-state must be repressive as well as productive."
Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University