Exclusion and the Making of Jordanian National Identity

An Analysis of School Textbooks

Bibliographic Data

ID12539656
AuthorsRiad M Nasser (Fairleigh Dickinson University, corresponding author), Riad Nasser
Year2004
Volume10
Issue2
Pages221-249
Publication date2004-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalism and Ethnic Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-7113 • E-ISSN: 1557-2986
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13537110490467685
OpenAlexW2062327451
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This study analyzes school history textbooks to discuss how the Jordanian national narrative constructs the nation through exclusion. It argues that the Jordanian identity is achieved dialectically by simultaneously advocating for multiple identification with pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism; a strategy that makes it possible for that narrative to exclude the majority of Jordan's population, the Palestinians. Theoretically, the article argues that national identity is polycentric; it is not unidimensional. It applies the polycentric approach to expand the theoretical scope of the study of Arab nationalism. In addition, the article offers a practical analytical tool to the analysis of identity in history school textbooks

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