Jordanian National Identity And Nationalism

Author : Joseph Andoni Massad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023112323X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Effects written by Joseph Andoni Massad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyses how modern Jordanian identity was created and defined. The author studies two key institutions, the law and the military, and uses them to create an analysis of the making of modern Jordanian identity.

Author : Lu'ayy Minwer al-Rimawi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jordanian National Identity and Nationalism written by Lu'ayy Minwer al-Rimawi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zaina Siyam
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Construction of Nationalism and National Identity in The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan written by Zaina Siyam and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Nationalism is an ideology that is not unique to one nation or one area, but it is a concept unique in the way it is defined. How it is defined and what it really is depends on where the definition is coming from. It is most important to post-colonial nations that relied and still rely on the creation of national identity and construction of an imagined community, in order to reach their liberation. Nations are imagined communities constructed through shared history, beliefs, traditions, and experiences that happen over different periods in time, between individuals that do not necessarily know each other on a face-to-face basis, nationalism is the ideology that brings all the shared elements together and creates a desire to belong, and national identity is the result of those social constructs. Then, in order to maintain the nation, law is used as a tool to protect a nation's sovereignty and the dominance of a certain national identity. However, the relationship between law and nationalism and national identity is not one-sided. Law does not only help maintain and reinforce national identity but law is also influenced by nationalism and the most prominent national identity in the territory. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is no stranger to the nation-building process and is heavily reliant on the existence of a Jordanian national identity in order to remain powerful. The Jordanian nation has carried out processes of Jordanization throughout the years in order to keep its population made up of real Jordanians, but there is a long history between real Jordanians and their Palestinian neighbors.

Author : Riad M. Nasser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135931364
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel written by Riad M. Nasser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that identity, whether of a small community, a nation, an ethnic group, or a religious community, requires an Other against whom it becomes meaningful. In other words, identity develops via difference from Others against whom our sense of self becomes meaningful. This thesis emerges out of the synthesis the study develops from the from the various modern and poststructuralist theories of identity and nationalism.

Author : Joseph Massad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identifying the Nation written by Joseph Massad and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda L. Layne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691194777
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home and Homeland written by Linda L. Layne and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative examination of collective identity in Jordan, Linda Layne challenges long-held Western assumptions that Arabs belong to easily recognizable corporate social groups. Who is a "true" Jordanian? Who is a "true" Bedouin? These questions, according to Layne, are examples of a kind of pigeonholing that has distorted the reality of Jordanian national politics. In developing an alternate approach, she shows that the fluid social identities of Jordan emerge from an ongoing dialogue among tribespeople, members of the intelligentsia Hashemite rulers, and Western social scientists. Many commentators on social identity in the Middle East limit their studies to the village level, but Layne's goal is to discover how the identity-building processes of the locality and of the nation condition each other. She finds that the tribes creates their own cultural "homes" through a dialogue with official nationalist rhetoric and Jordanian urbanites, while King Hussein, in turn, maintains the idea of the "homeland" in many ways that are powerfully influenced by the tribespeople. The identities so formed resemble the shifting, irregular shapes of postmodernist landscapes—but Hussein and the Jordanian people are also beginning to use a classically modernist linear narrative to describe themselves. Layne maintains, however, that even with this change Jordanian identities will remain resistant to all-or-nothing descriptions. Linda L. Layne is Alma and H. Erwin Hale Teaching Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Stefanie E. Nanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and National Identity in Jordan written by Stefanie E. Nanes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Betty S. Anderson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292783957
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalist Voices in Jordan written by Betty S. Anderson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to conventional wisdom, the national identity of the Jordanian state was defined by the ruling Hashemite family, which has governed the country since the 1920s. But this view overlooks the significant role that the "Arab street"—in this case, ordinary Jordanians and Palestinians—played and continues to play in defining national identity in Jordan and the Fertile Crescent as a whole. Indeed, as this pathfinding study makes clear, "the street" no less than the state has been a major actor in the process of nation building in the Middle East during and after the colonial era. In this book, Betty Anderson examines the activities of the Jordanian National Movement (JNM), a collection of leftist political parties that worked to promote pan-Arab unity and oppose the continuation of a separate Jordanian state from the 1920s through the 1950s. Using primary sources including memoirs, interviews, poetry, textbooks, and newspapers, as well as archival records, she shows how the expansion of education, new jobs in the public and private sectors, changes in economic relationships, the establishment of national militaries, and the explosion of media outlets all converged to offer ordinary Jordanians and Palestinians (who were under the Jordanian government at the time) an alternative sense of national identity. Anderson convincingly demonstrates that key elements of the JNM's pan-Arab vision and goals influenced and were ultimately adopted by the Hashemite elite, even though the movement itself was politically defeated in 1957.

Author : Ahmad Omar Bahjat Abdul-Hadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalism in the Middle East written by Ahmad Omar Bahjat Abdul-Hadi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Wing Mei Yan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Spatial Discourses of National Identity in Jordan written by Laura Wing Mei Yan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jordan was created as a British mandate in 1921, it was a state but not yet a nation. In order to be seen as legitimate rulers of a 'natural' national community, the Hashemite monarchy intertwined discourses of national identity and legitimacy in the changing contexts of Arab-Israeli conflicts, radical pan-Arab nationalism, and political Islam. The Jordanian government expressed these discourses by making claims to holy spaces in Jerusalem and (re)constructing various monuments, museums, plazas, and parks in the capital of Amman. However, competing visions of the Jordanian nation also emerged, ranging from nationalist movements that were exclusively Transjordanian to those that identified as Arab nationalist and opposed the monarchy. The struggle to create a unified Jordanian national identity has expressed itself in public spaces as different political and social groups articulated their own visions of what the Jordanian nation should be.