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Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East The Case of Jordan
Title
Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East [electronic resource] : The Case of Jordan / edited by Paolo Maggiolini, Idir Ouahes.
ISBN
9783030543990
Edition
1st ed. 2021.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XII, 295 p.) 1 illus.
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Summary
This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation - especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances. Despite its small size and initial appearance of homogeneity, Jordan provides an excellent case of a dynamic, relational, historically contingent and fluid approach to ethnic, political and religious minorities in the context of the imposition of a modern state system on complex and varied traditional societies. The editors and contributors present dynamic and relational perspectives on the status of and historical processes involved in the creation and absorption of minority groups within Jordan. Paolo Maggiolini is a Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. Idir Ouahes is a researcher of the colonial Middle East and North Africa based at Marbella International University Centre (MIUC), Spain.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 21, 2021
Series
Minorities in West Asia and North Africa
Contents
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction: Minorities, Minoritisation and (Trans-)Jordan
Part II. Religious, Ethno-Linguistic, Cultural Groups
Chapter 2. Christians of the Emirate: the Citizenship Process, Confessionalisation and Minoritisation
Chapter 3. Minoritisation and the State-Societal Balance of Forces in Transjordan (1920-46): British, Bedouin, Hashemite and Circassian Relations
Chapter 4. Transnational Identity and Circassians in Contemporary Jordan (1991-2018)
Part III. A "Liminal Minority": Palestinians in Jordan
Chapter 5. The Invisible Citizens of Jordan
Chapter 6. Stateless as Minority in Jordan
Chapter 7. The deep play: ethnicity, the Hashemite Monarchy and the Arab Spring in Jordan
Part IV. Political Minorities
Chapter 8. Foreign policy as Protection: The Muslim Brotherhood as a Political Minority during the Cold War
Chapter 9. The Making of a Minority: Subalternity and Minoritisation of Jordanian Salafism
Chapter 10. Gender Inclusivity and Class Struggle Narratives in the Resistance of Al-Ḥirāk Al-Shabābī Al-Urdunī (The Jordanian Youth Movement)
Chapter 11. "A Village that Harbours the Oppressed"? Amman and the Jordanian Novel (1980-2000)
Chapter 12. Conclusion. The Field and Process of Minoritisation in Jordan.
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