On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat
approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi—the slightly
leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread
to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet
despite its ubiquity in accounts of Middle East politics and
society, rarely do we consider how bread is prepared, consumed,
discussed, and circulated—and what this all represents. With this
book, José Ciro MartÃnez examines khubz 'arabi to unpack the
effects of the welfare program that ensures its widespread
availability. Drawing on more than a year working as a baker in
Amman, MartÃnez probes the practices that underpin subsidized
bread. Following bakers and bureaucrats, he offers an immersive
examination of social welfare provision. MartÃnez argues that the
state is best understood as the product of routine practices and
actions, through which it becomes a stable truth in the lives of
citizens. States of Subsistence not only describes logics of rule
in contemporary Jordan—and the place of bread within them—but
also unpacks how the state endures through forms, sensations, and
practices amid the seemingly unglamorous and unspectacular
day-to-day.
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