Rethinking the national in the Middle East: Jordan as a case study
Since 2011, there has been a renewed interest within research on and in the Middle East for Jordan. In a context of political, economic and health crisis, many young researchers are working on this national space with very different disciplinary, sometimes comparative, perspectives.
This research project aims to unite a group of young international researchers around a common reflection on the "Jordanian national fact". As a "crossroads" country with a national project that has long been disputed or contested, including within academic studies, Jordan constitutes a privileged observatory of the social and political changes that have affected the region over the course of the 20th century.
Moreover, questioning the national question allows us to pose the question of the specificity of the Jordanian terrain and to put it in perspective with social, economic and political mechanisms recurrent at the regional and even international levels. The project will invite young researchers to consider the contribution of areal studies to their research or disciplinary fields. This will also allow them to consider, from a methodological perspective, what crises do to the production of human and social sciences.
Taking the "Jordanian national fact" as an entry point for the study of the various crises and mutations taking place in the Middle East, this project will support young researchers (master and doctorate) in their fieldwork and in the restitution of their observations in the form of blog notes, but also through the production of academic texts, notably articles. This research project contributes to the study of the national question and the state in the Middle East and is anchored in the training ambitions of the SoMuM Institute's master and doctoral students.
Coordination of the project
Norig Neveu (IREMAM, MESOPOLHIS)
Simon Mangon (MESOPOLHIS)
Taher Labadi (LEST)
Duration
September 2021 to february 2023