This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today’s Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation – especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances. Despite its small size and initial appearance of homogeneity, Jordan provides an excellent case of a dynamic, relational, historically contingent and fluid approach to ethnic, political and religious minorities in the context of the imposition of a modern state system on complex and varied traditional societies. The editors and contributors present dynamic and relational perspectives on the status of and historical processes involved in the creation and absorption of minority groups within Jordan.

Maggiolini, P. M. L. C., Ouahes, I. (eds.), Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East: The Case of Jordan, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2021: 295 . 10.1007/978-3-030-54399-0 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/166871]

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

Maggiolini, Paolo Maria Leo Cesare
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2021

Abstract

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today’s Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation – especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances. Despite its small size and initial appearance of homogeneity, Jordan provides an excellent case of a dynamic, relational, historically contingent and fluid approach to ethnic, political and religious minorities in the context of the imposition of a modern state system on complex and varied traditional societies. The editors and contributors present dynamic and relational perspectives on the status of and historical processes involved in the creation and absorption of minority groups within Jordan.
2021
Inglese
978-3-030-54398-3
Palgrave Macmillan
Maggiolini, P. M. L. C., Ouahes, I. (eds.), Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East: The Case of Jordan, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2021: 295 . 10.1007/978-3-030-54399-0 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/166871]
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