Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan

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IntroductionLaw, Military, and DisciplineTradition and ModernityHistorical MomentsPart I: Codifying the Nation: Law and the Articulation of National Identity in Jordan Prehistory of Juridical PostcolonialityNational TimeNational SpaceNational Territory and PaternityNationalizing Non-NationalsLosing Nationality: Law Giveth and the Law Taketh AwayWomen and ChildrenPart II: Different Spaces as Different Times: Law and Geography in Jordanian Nationalism Different Species of Citizens: Women and BedouinsBedouins and National CitizenshipNationalist Tribalism or Tribalist Nationalism: DebateJordanian Culture in an International FrameWomen Between the Public and Private SpheresWomen in PublicWomen and PoliticsPart III: Cultural Syncretism or Colonial Mimic Men: Jordan's Bedouins and the Military Basis of National Identity Bedouin ChoiceCultural Imperialism and DisciplineCultural Cross-Dressing as EpistemologyImperialism as EducatorMasculinity, Culture, and WomenTransforming the BedouinsPersuasion, Education, and SurveillancePart IV: Nationalizing the Military: Colonial Legacy as National Heritage Anticolonial Nationalism and the ArmyKing Husayn and the Nationalist OfficersClash of the Titans: Glubb Pasha and the Uneasy KingArabizing the Jordanian ArmyThe Palace Coup and the End of an EraPalace Repression and the Forgiving KingPalestinians and the MilitaryThreatening the Nation's Masculinity and Religious TraditionThe Military and the New JordanColonial or National LegacyPart V: Nation as an Elastic Entity: Expansion and Contraction of Jordan Expanding the Nation: Road to AnnexationThe Jericho ConferenceThe New JordanPalestinians and the West BankCompeting Representatives: PLO and JordanToward Civil WarA New Nationalist EraClothes, Accents, and Football: Asserting Post-Civil War JordaniannessContracting the Nation: Road to The Severing of TiesWho Is Jordanian?Concluding Remarks