Protesting Jordan : geographies of power and dissent / Jillian Schwedler.

"Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been central to challenging state power, as well as reproducing it--and the spatial dynamics of protests play a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwedler, Jillian (Author)
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Series:Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Subjects:
Protest movements > Jordan.
Demonstrations > Jordan.
Government, Resistance to > Jordan.
Jordan > Politics and government.
Contestation > Jordanie.
Manifestations > Jordanie.
Résistance au gouvernement > Jordanie.
Jordanie > Politique et gouvernement.
Demonstrations.
Government, Resistance to.
Politics and government.
Protest movements.
Jordan.
Physical Description:xiv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The shifting political stakes of protest
  • Transforming Transjordan
  • Becoming Amman : from periphery to center
  • Jordanization, the neoliberal state, and the retreat and return of protest
  • An ethnography of place and the politics of routine protests
  • Jordan in the time of the Arab uprisings
  • The techniques and evolving spatial dynamics of protest and repression
  • Protest and order in militarized spaces
  • Protesting global aspirations.