Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East: The Case of Jordan 1st Edition Paolo Maggiolini

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• ISBN 10: 3030543994
• ISBN 13: 9783030543990
• Author: Paolo Maggiolini; Idir Ouahes

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.

Table Contents:

1. Introduction: Minorities, Minoritisation and (Trans-)Jordan

Part I. Religious, Ethno-Linguistic, Cultural Groups

2. Christians of the Emirate: The Citizenship Process, Confessionalisation and Minoritisation

3. Minoritisation and the State-Societal Balance of Forces in Transjordan (1920–1946): British, Bedouin, Hashemite and Circassian Relations

4. Transnational Identity and Circassians in Contemporary Jordan (1991–2018)

Part II. A “Liminal Minority”: Palestinians in Jordan

5. The Invisible Citizens of Jordan

6. Minoritising Gaza Refugees in Jordan

7. The Deep Play: Ethnicity, the Hashemite Monarchy and the Arab Spring in Jordan

Part III. Political Minorities

8. Foreign Policy as Protection: The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as a Political Minority During the Cold War

9. The Making of a Minority: Subalternity and Minoritisation of Jordanian Salafism

10. Gender Inclusivity and Class Struggle Narratives in the Resistance of Al-Ḥirāk Al-Shabābī Al-Urdunī (The Jordanian Youth Movement)

11. “A Village That Harbours the Oppressed”? Amman and the Jordanian Novel (1980–2000)

12. Conclusion: The Field and Process of Minoritisation in Jordan

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