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A National Endowment for Democracy Notable Book of 2022 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 central role in the
construction of both state and society. With this book, Jillian
Schwedler considers how space and geography influence protests and
repression, and, in challenging conventional narratives of
Hashemite state-making, offers the first in-depth study of
rebellion in Jordan. Based on twenty-five years of field research,
Protesting Jordan examines protests as they are situated in the
built environment, bringing together considerations of networks,
spatial imaginaries, space and place-making, and political
geographies at local, national, regional, and global scales.
Schwedler considers the impact of time and temporality in the
lifecycles of individual movements. Through a mixed interpretive
methodology, this book illuminates the geographies of power and
dissent and the spatial practices of protest and repression,
highlighting the political stakes of competing narratives about
Jordan's past, present, and future.
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 central role in the
construction of both state and society. With this book, Jillian
Schwedler considers how space and geography influence protests and
repression, and, in challenging conventional narratives of
Hashemite state-making, offers the first in-depth study of
rebellion in Jordan. Based on twenty-five years of field research,
Protesting Jordan examines protests as they are situated in the
built environment, bringing together considerations of networks,
spatial imaginaries, space and place-making, and political
geographies at local, national, regional, and global scales.
Schwedler considers the impact of time and temporality in the
lifecycles of individual movements. Through a mixed interpretive
methodology, this book illuminates the geographies of power and
dissent and the spatial practices of protest and repression,
highlighting the political stakes of competing narratives about
Jordan's past, present, and future.
The previous edition of Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
was published soon after the Arab uprisings, and the
authors-writing across disciplines-captured those moments of
possibility. Now, more than six years later, the Middle East is
substantially changed, with three protracted civil wars, several
retrenched authoritarian regimes, possibly one emerging democracy,
and social and economic conditions that have been profoundly
affected by the new political environment. This thoroughly revised
and updated edition explores both the impact of recent events in
shaping the region and the continuities with established patterns
of political, economic, and social relations.
A definitive overview of what political scientists are working on
within the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Uprisings of
2011-12 catalyzed a new wave of rigorous, deeply informed research
on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In The
Political Science of the Middle East, Marc Lynch, Jillian
Schwedler, and Sean Yom present the definitive overview of this
pathbreaking turn. This is a monumental stocktaking organized
around a singular theme: new theorizing from the MENA has advanced
the frontiers of comparative politics and international relations,
and the close-range study of the region occupies a core place in
mainstream political science. Its dozen chapters cover an
exhaustive array of topics, including authoritarianism and
democracy, contentious politics, regional security, military
institutions, conflict and violence, the political economy of
development, Islamist movements, identity and sectarianism, public
opinion, migration, and local politics. For each of these topics,
leading MENA experts and specialists highlight innovative concepts,
vibrant debates, diverse methodologies, and unexpected findings.
The result is an indispensable research primer, one that stands as
a generational statement from a regional subfield.
Does political inclusion produce ideological moderation? Schwedler
argues that examining political behaviour alone provides
insufficient evidence of moderation because it leaves open the
possibility that political actors might act as if they are moderate
while harbouring radical agendas. Through a comparative study of
the Islamic Action Front party in Jordan and the Islah party in
Yemen, she argues that the IAF in Jordan has become more moderate
through participation in pluralist political processes, while the
Islah party has not. The variation is explained in part by internal
group organization and decision-making processes, but particularly
by the ways in which the IAF has been able to justify its new
pluralist practices on Islamic terms while the Islah party has not.
Based on nearly four years of field research in Jordan and Yemen,
Schwedler contributes both an important theory of ideological
moderation and detail about these powerful Islamist political
parties.
Does political inclusion produce ideological moderation? Schwedler
argues that examining political behaviour alone provides
insufficient evidence of moderation because it leaves open the
possibility that political actors might act as if they are moderate
while harbouring radical agendas. Through a comparative study of
the Islamic Action Front party in Jordan and the Islah party in
Yemen, she argues that the IAF in Jordan has become more moderate
through participation in pluralist political processes, while the
Islah party has not. The variation is explained in part by internal
group organization and decision-making processes, but particularly
by the ways in which the IAF has been able to justify its new
pluralist practices on Islamic terms while the Islah party has not.
Based on nearly four years of field research in Jordan and Yemen,
Schwedler contributes both an important theory of ideological
moderation and detail about these powerful Islamist political
parties.
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