Joseph Andoni Massad

Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period. Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analytical promise of Michel Foucault's insight that modern institutions and their power to have productive, not merely repressive or coercive, capacities -- though Massad also stresses their continued repressive f.

This volume, containing chapters in French (some translated from Arabic) and others in English, is a collective work, diverse and dynamic, analyzing symbolic, discursive, archival, oral and archaeological data regarding the Palestinian social formation through time and space. Its authors, who include internationally recognized specialists as well as young scholars from the occupied territories, have in common their critique of established paradigms, based on a reading of data in the light of contemporary theoretical breakthroughs. The contributions were edited by Roger Heacock, professor of history at Birzeit University, author of Towards a New Tricontinental? Shifting Perspectives and Realities in the International System (Birzeit, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute), of the series “Internationaliste en Palestine” and of “ Ma zilna huna: nous sommes toujours là” (Confluences-Méditerranée).

"Dr Massad here proposes more than the usual review of the ideological and political histories of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. It is not in de-linking the Palestinian Question from the Jewish Question that a resolution can be found but by linking them as one and the same question. All other proposed solutions, the author argues, are bound to fail." "The book analyzes the failure of the "peace process" and proposes that a solution to the Palestinian Question will not be found unless settler-colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism are abandoned as the ideological framework for a resolution. Individual essays further explore the struggle over Jewish identity in Israel and the struggle among Palestinians over what constitutes the Palestinian Question today."--Jacket.