Overview
- Allows readers to gain a broader understanding of minority within Jordan, discussing the process of minoritization: ethnic, religious, and political
- Explores various types of minorities within specific historic frameworks to analyze the role of each minority in relation to the rest of the population in Jordan
- Discusses the minority-state relationship and how majority and minority are institutionalized and conceptualized
Part of the book series: Minorities in West Asia and North Africa (MWANA)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Religious, Ethno-Linguistic, Cultural Groups
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Front Matter
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A “Liminal Minority”: Palestinians in Jordan
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Front Matter
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Political Minorities
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
“Maggiolini and Ouahes have brought together an innovative group of scholars to examine Jordan’s other minorities and challenge official views of a unified and harmonious ‘Hashemite family.’ The book will be a standard reference on Jordan, providing a welcome antidote to a conventional wisdom that views Jordan as a fractured polity divided between ‘tribal’ East Bankers and a homogeneous block of Palestinian refugees.” (Tariq Tell, American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
“This volume presents cutting-edge research on the ethnic, religious and ideological diversity in Jordan, covering a century of Hashemite state-minority relations. At the same time, it is much more than a study of Jordan. With its focus on minoritisation, rather than fixed minority categories, it provides broader lessons for debates in Anthropology, History, Literary Studies, Political Science as well as Citizenship and Migration Studies.” (André Bank, GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies, Hamburg, Germany)
“This book explores in great detail state-making in (Trans)Jordan through a theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded approach, outlining the way in which the state both excludes and incorporates religious, ethnic and political minorities. It is a must-read for anyone interested in minority studies in the region.” (Francesco Cavatorta, Laval University, Québec, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paolo Maggiolini is a Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy.
Idir Ouahes is a researcher of the colonial Middle East and North Africa based at Marbella International University Centre (MIUC), Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East
Book Subtitle: The Case of Jordan
Editors: Paolo Maggiolini, Idir Ouahes
Series Title: Minorities in West Asia and North Africa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54399-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54398-3Published: 20 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54401-0Published: 21 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54399-0Published: 19 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4250
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4269
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 295
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Political History, Politics and Religion, Citizenship, Development and Social Change