Colonial Effects
Joseph Andoni Massad · 2001
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Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period. Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analytical promise of Michel Foucault's insight that modern institutions and their power to have productive, not merely repressive or coercive, capacities -- though Massad also stresses their continued repressive f.
Book details
- Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN
- 9780231123228
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