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Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
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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.
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“Instead, the internet facilitates horizontalism which manifests as small, informal groups independently deciding to plan mobilization events in their locality that are under the broad goals of the movement (Schwedler 2022; Yom 2014; 2022).”
From Coordinated Dis-Coordination (2024) · cites this paper as Schwedler 2022
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“Instead, the internet facilitates horizontalism which manifests as small, informal groups independently deciding to plan mobilization events in their locality that are under the broad goals of the movement (Schwedler 2022; Yom 2014; 2022).”
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“Protests may coalesce into broader uprisings or revolutions (Beissinger 2013; Chenoweth et al. 2019) or they make take the form of smaller-scale or routinized acts of resistance (Schwedler 2022).”
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- Authors
- Schwedler, J.
- Corresponding author
- Schwedler, Jillian
- ORCID
- Schwedler, Jillian
- Venue
- Stanford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2022-04-19
- OpenAlex
- W4288765847
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 22.02
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Stanford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East Politics and Society
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Keywords
- protest, Jordan, political geography, spatial imaginaries, state repression, rebellion, built environment, place-making, political networks, state-society relations
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