Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period.
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.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Law, Military, and Discipline
- Tradition and Modernity
- Historical Moments
- Jordan’s Historical Moments
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. Cultural Syncretism or Colonial Mimic Men: Jordan's Bedouin 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
- Education, Surveillance, and the Production of Bedouin Culture
- 4. 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 Arab Army
- The Palace Coup: 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?
- 5. 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 Post–Civil War Jordanianness
- Contracting the Nation: The Road to “The Severing of Ties”
- Who Is Jordanian?
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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