Colonial Effects

by Massad, Joseph Andoni

• ISBN13: 9780231123228
• ISBN10: 0231123221
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(1)
Law, Military, and Discipline	2	(3)
Tradition and Modernity	5	(3)
Historical Moments	8	(2)
Jordan's Historical Moments	10	(8)
Codifying the Nation: Law and the Articulation of National Identity in Jordan	18	(32)
The Prehistory of Juridical Postcoloniality	22	(3)
National Time	25	(8)
National Space	33	(2)
National Territory and Paternity	35	(3)
Nationalizing Non-nationals	38	(5)
Losing Nationality: The Law Giveth and the Law Taketh Away	43	(2)
Women and Children	45	(5)
Different Spaces as Different Times: Law and Geography in Jordanian Nationalism	50	(50)
Different Species of Citizens: Women and Bedouins	51	(5)
Bedouins and National Citizenship	56	(10)
Nationalist Tribalism or Tribalist Nationalism: The Debate	66	(7)
Jordanian Culture in an International Frame	73	(6)
Women Between the Public and Private Spheres	79	(9)
Women in Public	88	(4)
Women and Politics	92	(8)
Cultural Syncretism or Colonial Mimic Men: Jordan's Bedouins and the Military Basis of National Identity	100	(63)
The Bedouin Choice	105	(6)
Cultural Imperialism and Discipline	111	(6)
Cultural Cross-dressing as Epistemology	117	(14)
Imperialism as Educator	131	(6)
Masculinity, Culture, and Women	137	(6)
Transforming the Bedouins	143	(5)
Education, Surveillance, and the Production of Bedouin Culture	148	(15)
Nationalizing the Military: Colonial Legacy as National Heritage	163	(59)
Anticolonial Nationalism and the Army	165	(6)
King Husayn and the Nationalist Officers	171	(7)
Clash of the Titans: Glubb Pasha and the Uneasy King	178	(7)
``Arabizing'' the Jordanian Army	185	(4)
The Palace Coup: The End of an Era	189	(9)
Palace Repression and the Forgiving King	198	(6)
Palestinians and the Military	204	(3)
Threatening the Nation's Masculinity and Religious ``Tradition''	207	(6)
The Military and the New Jordan	213	(4)
Colonial or National Legacy?	217	(5)
The Nation as an Elastic Entity: The Expansion and Contraction of Jordan	222	(57)
Expanding the Nation: The Road to Annexation	226	(1)
The Jericho Conference	227	(6)
The New Jordan	233	(2)
Palestinians and the West Bank	235	(1)
Competing Representatives: The PLO and Jordan	236	(4)
Toward Civil War	240	(6)
A New Nationalist Era	246	(4)
Clothes, Accents, and Football: Asserting Post-Civil War Jordanianness	250	(8)
Contracting the Nation: The Road to ``The Severing of Ties''	258	(5)
Who Is Jordanian?	263	(13)
Concluding Remarks	276	(3)
Notes	279	(74)
Works Cited	353	(18)
Index	371