Colonial Effects - The Making of National Identity in Jordan : The Making of National Identity in Jordan

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