Recovered Histories and Contested Identities - Jordan, Israel, and Palestine

Informationen zum Autor Riad Nasser is a professor of sociology in the Department of Social Sciences and History at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He specializes in the study of nationalism, ethnicity, and theories of citizenship in the global age. He has published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal for Curriculum Studies, and is author of Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary 'Other' in the Making of a Nation (New York: Routledge, 2005). He is a leading scholar in textbook analysis in Middle East school systems. Klappentext The book discusses the myth of origins and its role in the formation of particularistic national identities. Furthermore, it examines the conflict between nationalism and the universal form of identity, citizenship. Zusammenfassung The book discusses the myth of origins and its role in the formation of particularistic national identities. Furthermore! it examines the conflict between nationalism and the universal form of identity! citizenship.

Product details

• Authors: Riad Nasser, Riad M. Nasser
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.12.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780739146606
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4660-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, EDUCATION / Comparative, Regional Studies, Middle Eastern History;World History