Colonial effects
Subtitle: the making of national identity in Jordan
By: Joseph A. Massad
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: National state; National characteristics, Jordanian; Postcolonialism -- Jordan; Culture and law; Jordan -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Jordan -- Ethnic relations; Jordan -- Armed Forces -- Political activity
Description: 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 f.
Notes: Revision of author's thesis

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and index