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Thirdly, this study argues that state land policies were essential in the construction of the idea of a modern state of Jordan. Cheap Jordan Shoes, The first major articulation of the state's relationship to society in Jordan lay in its land policies and society’s reaction to them. This began with the Ottoman period and lasted well into the 20th century. In no other colonial setting in the Middle Hast did the state so thoroughly intervene in and restructure land matters by the 1940s, and the introduction of European concepts of land ownership and exploitation went far toward contributing to the development not only of the country’s economy but of its identity and self-conceptualization as well. 'This Western-designed campaign to survey land,Retro Jordans, establish and register definitive land rights, and its creation of a new system of land taxation, were thus of vital importance in creating the very nature of modern “Jordan." In the first place, these state programs
linked the state with society's need to secure private individual property rights at the expense of collective village rights at a crucial period of time. The state came to occupy a role, alongside the village, the family,jordan releases, and the shaykh, as a main arbiter of a peasant’s access to land rights. The state also was perceived as a positive force in society by upholding individual claims even if it dealt a blow to corporate village claims; land was now owned through a state-issued deed, not just through village custom. Persons of low socio-economic status, women,Jordans for sale, and others often used state procedures to their advantage and secured claims to land long denied them by more powerful social actors.
A sense of “Jordan” was also created by state-societal interaction in land matters. Property by the 1950s was no longer defined merely by conceptualizations of a share of the village's land but by state-issued maps and deeds. The state entered forcefully into the equation. In surveying land and registering land rights systematically,Cheap Jordans, the state was reconceptualizing the spatial dimensions of the country as well.Village boundaries were also literally drawn by the state on maps. Popular notions of space were being changed by the government. These processes were done in consultation with the villagers, but their result was that vilhages conceived of their socio-economic space in terms of reference created by the state along Western lines.
linked the state with society's need to secure private individual property rights at the expense of collective village rights at a crucial period of time. The state came to occupy a role, alongside the village, the family,jordan releases, and the shaykh, as a main arbiter of a peasant’s access to land rights. The state also was perceived as a positive force in society by upholding individual claims even if it dealt a blow to corporate village claims; land was now owned through a state-issued deed, not just through village custom. Persons of low socio-economic status, women,Jordans for sale, and others often used state procedures to their advantage and secured claims to land long denied them by more powerful social actors.
A sense of “Jordan” was also created by state-societal interaction in land matters. Property by the 1950s was no longer defined merely by conceptualizations of a share of the village's land but by state-issued maps and deeds. The state entered forcefully into the equation. In surveying land and registering land rights systematically,Cheap Jordans, the state was reconceptualizing the spatial dimensions of the country as well.Village boundaries were also literally drawn by the state on maps. Popular notions of space were being changed by the government. These processes were done in consultation with the villagers, but their result was that vilhages conceived of their socio-economic space in terms of reference created by the state along Western lines.