Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East : The Case of Jordan /

Maggiolini, Paolo

Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East : The Case of Jordan / Edited by Paolo Maggioloini, Idir Ouaches. - first edition. - 295 pages. - Minorities in West Asia and North Africa .

Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Minorities, Minoritisation and (Trans-)Jordan -- Part II. Religious, Ethno-Linguistic, Cultural Groups -- Chapter 2. Christians of the Emirate: the Citizenship Process, Confessionalisation and Minoritisation -- Chapter 3. Minoritisation and the State-Societal Balance of Forces in Transjordan (1920-46): British, Bedouin, Hashemite and Circassian Relations -- Chapter 4. Transnational Identity and Circassians in Contemporary Jordan (1991-2018) -- Part III. A "Liminal Minority": Palestinians in Jordan -- Chapter 5. The Invisible Citizens of Jordan -- Chapter 6. Stateless as Minority in Jordan -- Chapter 7. The deep play: ethnicity, the Hashemite Monarchy and the Arab Spring in Jordan -- Part IV. Political Minorities -- Chapter 8. Foreign policy as Protection: The Muslim Brotherhood as a Political Minority during the Cold War -- Chapter 9. The Making of a Minority: Subalternity and Minoritisation of Jordanian Salafism -- Chapter 10. Gender Inclusivity and Class Struggle Narratives in the Resistance of Al-Ḥirāk Al-Shabābī Al-Urdunī (The Jordanian Youth Movement) -- Chapter 11. "A Village that Harbours the Oppressed"? Amman and the Jordanian Novel (1980-2000) -- Chapter 12. Conclusion. The Field and Process of Minoritisation in Jordan

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social sciences
Middle East-Politics and government
World politics
Religion and politics
Political science
Middle Eastern Politics

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