Jonathan Wyrtzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 313633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Wyrtzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyrtzen |
| SIGNATURE | WYRTZEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9536-2949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by David Siddhartha Patel
Journal Article Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by DAVID SIDDHARTHA PATEL Get access Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by David Siddhartha Patel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022, 240 pp.; $30.95. Jonathan Wyrtzen Jonathan Wyrtzen Yale University, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions…
Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East
This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors.
For a (comparative?) global historical sociology
Go and Lawson’s edited volume, Global Historical Sociology, is an agenda setting collection that, by boldly articulating a relationalist transdisciplinary paradigm and gathering a stellar range of
Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East
Liat Kozma’s Global Women, Colonial Ports reconstructs a densely connected Braudelian Mediterranean in which southern and eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East are linked during the interwar period through prostitution. This meticulously researched study is an innovative contribution to recent trends in global and transnational history. By focusing on key nodes and interactions in the Mediterranean basin, Kozma shows how wide-ranging …
Colonial War and the Production of Territorialized State Space in North Africa
Why and how was the territorialized state form disseminated through colonial expansion? To begin to answer this question, this study proposes a relational account of the production of territorialized state space, drawing on empirical evidence from two understudied cases of colonial expansion in the early 20th century: Spain in Morocco and Italy in Libya. Drawing on colonial and local archival sources, I demonstrate how colonial territoriality res…
Colonial Legitimization-Legibility Linkages and the Politics of Identity in Algeria and Morocco
Scholarship on the modern state's symbolic and social infrastructural power typically correlates high state capacity to practices of standardization, homogenization, and integration. Less attention has focused on how this power can be directed towards differentiation and heterogenization, as amply demonstrated in the case of empire. This article develops a framework for analyzing how infrastructural power is employed by modern colonial states and…
Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity
How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912–1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships among politics and identity formation were fundamentally transformed. Instead of privileging top-down processes of colonial state formation or bottom-up processes of…
The Violences of Knowledge: Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity
As a fountainhead of postcolonial scholarship, Edward Said has profoundly impacted multiple disciplines. This chapter makes a case for why sociologists should (re)read Edward Said, paying specific attention to his warning about the inevitably violent interactions between knowledge and power in historic and current imperial contexts. Drawing on Said and other postcolonial theorists, we propose a threefold typology of potential violence associated …
Performing the nation in anti‐colonial protest in interwar Morocco
This article applies a process approach to the study of nationalism, analysing anti‐colonial protest in interwar Morocco to address how and why elite‐constructed national identity resonates for larger audiences. Using Alexander's social performance model to study nationalist contention, it examines how a Muslim prayer ritual was re‐purposed by Moroccan nationalists to galvanise mass protest against a French divide‐and‐rule colonial policy towards…
Colonial State-Building and the Negotiation of Arab and Berber Identity in Protectorate Morocco
Colonial state-building in Protectorate Morocco, particularly the total “pacification” of territory and infrastructural development carried out between 1907 and 1934, dramatically transformed the social and political context in which collective identity was imagined in Moroccan society. Prior scholarship has highlighted the struggle between colonial administrators and urban Arabophone nationalist elites over Arab and Berber ethnic classifications…
Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity
How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912–1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships among politics and identity formation were fundamentally transformed. Instead of privileging top-down processes of colonial state formation or bottom-up processes of…
Colonial State-Building and the Negotiation of Arab and Berber Identity in Protectorate Morocco
Colonial state-building in Protectorate Morocco, particularly the total “pacification” of territory and infrastructural development carried out between 1907 and 1934, dramatically transformed the social and political context in which collective identity was imagined in Moroccan society. Prior scholarship has highlighted the struggle between colonial administrators and urban Arabophone nationalist elites over Arab and Berber ethnic classifications…
Performing the nation in anti‐colonial protest in interwar Morocco
This article applies a process approach to the study of nationalism, analysing anti‐colonial protest in interwar Morocco to address how and why elite‐constructed national identity resonates for larger audiences. Using Alexander's social performance model to study nationalist contention, it examines how a Muslim prayer ritual was re‐purposed by Moroccan nationalists to galvanise mass protest against a French divide‐and‐rule colonial policy towards…
Colonial Legitimization-Legibility Linkages and the Politics of Identity in Algeria and Morocco
Scholarship on the modern state's symbolic and social infrastructural power typically correlates high state capacity to practices of standardization, homogenization, and integration. Less attention has focused on how this power can be directed towards differentiation and heterogenization, as amply demonstrated in the case of empire. This article develops a framework for analyzing how infrastructural power is employed by modern colonial states and…
For a (comparative?) global historical sociology
Go and Lawson’s edited volume, Global Historical Sociology, is an agenda setting collection that, by boldly articulating a relationalist transdisciplinary paradigm and gathering a stellar range of
Colonial State-Building and the Negotiation of Arab and Berber Identity in Protectorate Morocco
Colonial state-building in Protectorate Morocco, particularly the total “pacification” of territory and infrastructural development carried out between 1907 and 1934, dramatically transformed the social and political context in which collective identity was imagined in Moroccan society. Prior scholarship has highlighted the struggle between colonial administrators and urban Arabophone nationalist elites over Arab and Berber ethnic classifications…
The Violences of Knowledge: Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity
As a fountainhead of postcolonial scholarship, Edward Said has profoundly impacted multiple disciplines. This chapter makes a case for why sociologists should (re)read Edward Said, paying specific attention to his warning about the inevitably violent interactions between knowledge and power in historic and current imperial contexts. Drawing on Said and other postcolonial theorists, we propose a threefold typology of potential violence associated …
Performing the nation in anti‐colonial protest in interwar Morocco
This article applies a process approach to the study of nationalism, analysing anti‐colonial protest in interwar Morocco to address how and why elite‐constructed national identity resonates for larger audiences. Using Alexander's social performance model to study nationalist contention, it examines how a Muslim prayer ritual was re‐purposed by Moroccan nationalists to galvanise mass protest against a French divide‐and‐rule colonial policy towards…
Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity
How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912–1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships among politics and identity formation were fundamentally transformed. Instead of privileging top-down processes of colonial state formation or bottom-up processes of…
Colonial War and the Production of Territorialized State Space in North Africa
Why and how was the territorialized state form disseminated through colonial expansion? To begin to answer this question, this study proposes a relational account of the production of territorialized state space, drawing on empirical evidence from two understudied cases of colonial expansion in the early 20th century: Spain in Morocco and Italy in Libya. Drawing on colonial and local archival sources, I demonstrate how colonial territoriality res…
Colonial Legitimization-Legibility Linkages and the Politics of Identity in Algeria and Morocco
Scholarship on the modern state's symbolic and social infrastructural power typically correlates high state capacity to practices of standardization, homogenization, and integration. Less attention has focused on how this power can be directed towards differentiation and heterogenization, as amply demonstrated in the case of empire. This article develops a framework for analyzing how infrastructural power is employed by modern colonial states and…
Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East
Liat Kozma’s Global Women, Colonial Ports reconstructs a densely connected Braudelian Mediterranean in which southern and eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East are linked during the interwar period through prostitution. This meticulously researched study is an innovative contribution to recent trends in global and transnational history. By focusing on key nodes and interactions in the Mediterranean basin, Kozma shows how wide-ranging …
For a (comparative?) global historical sociology
Go and Lawson’s edited volume, Global Historical Sociology, is an agenda setting collection that, by boldly articulating a relationalist transdisciplinary paradigm and gathering a stellar range of
Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East
This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors.
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions…
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by David Siddhartha Patel
Journal Article Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by DAVID SIDDHARTHA PATEL Get access Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by David Siddhartha Patel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022, 240 pp.; $30.95. Jonathan Wyrtzen Jonathan Wyrtzen Yale University, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
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