CIAO DATE: 09/02

Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan

Joseph A. Massad

Columbia University Press

August 2001

 

Table of Contents

Front Matter and Acknowledgments (PDF format, 14 pages, 56 kbs)

Introduction (PDF format, 17 pages, 68 kbs)

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 (PDF format, 32 pages, 120 kbs)

   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 (PDF format, 50 pages, 180 kbs)

   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 Bedouins and the Military Basis of National Identity (PDF format, 63 pages, 216 kbs)

   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 (PDF format, 59 pages, 212 kbs)

   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: 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 (PDF format, 54 pages, 188 kbs)

   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 (PDF format, 3 pages, 24 kbs)

Notes (PDF format, 74 pages, 276 kbs)

Works Cited (PDF format, 18 pages, 88 kbs)

Index (PDF format, 26 pages, 92 kbs)