Book contents
- Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
- Cambridge Middle East Studies
- Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliterations
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Strategic Alliances and Amalgamated Social Orders
- 3 State Policing, from the Ottoman Gendarmerie to the Public Security Directorate
- 4 Criminalising Disputes and Disputing Criminality
- 5 Policing Blood Crimes in the (Neo)Tribal Tradition
- 6 Policing Domestic Abuse
- 7 Community Policing After the Uprisings
- 8 From Neoliberal Securitised Policing Back to the Disputing Process
- Bibliography
- Index
- Books in the Series
2 - Strategic Alliances and Amalgamated Social Orders
The Basis of Authoritarian Survival
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
- Cambridge Middle East Studies
- Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliterations
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Strategic Alliances and Amalgamated Social Orders
- 3 State Policing, from the Ottoman Gendarmerie to the Public Security Directorate
- 4 Criminalising Disputes and Disputing Criminality
- 5 Policing Blood Crimes in the (Neo)Tribal Tradition
- 6 Policing Domestic Abuse
- 7 Community Policing After the Uprisings
- 8 From Neoliberal Securitised Policing Back to the Disputing Process
- Bibliography
- Index
- Books in the Series
Summary
In Jordan, social order has historically emerged as a result of the regime’s laws, policies and institutions, but also as a result of practices established and modified from above and below. This chapter lays the ground for the book’s subsequent examination of how the Public Security Directorate intervenes into citizens’ lives and how citizens have recourse to the police, by tracing the emergence of several hegemonic projects in the Kingdom. These projects are largely grounded in the nature of patron–client alliances forged since the establishment of the modern state between the Hashemites and the East Bank Transjordanian population on the one hand, and Western liberal democracies on the other. Whilst uneven and increasingly amalgamated, these alliances have supported the dissemination of a tribal order, which for several decades enjoyed a large degree of hegemonic consent. and more recently a ‘neoliberal-civic’ order, which is facing an appreciable counter-hegemonic pushback from below and paradoxically fostering an increased reliance on kinship networks.
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- Creating Consent in an Illiberal OrderPolicing Disputes in Jordan, pp. 28 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022