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  • 6 - Performing the Nation, Imagining Citizenship: School Rituals and Oppositional Non-belonging

  • Hania Sobhy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG), Göttingen
  • Book:
    Schooling the Nation
    Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023, pp 156-184
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    The abandoned and contentious state of nationalist rituals in schools embodies the realities of everyday legitimation reflected in the striking expressions of the lack of national belonging among students across the schools. By exploring both school rituals and student narratives, this chapter is concerned with how legitimation is lived in the everyday and how citizenship is imagined from below. The first part of the chapter discusses the organization of the morning assembly (tabur) in the different schools and the performance of its nationalist components. The second part develops the key themes that emerge from observations and interviews with students and teachers relating to the narratives of national belonging and citizenship, and their classed and gendered dimensions. It tracks the influence of Islamist narratives on school activities and everyday discourses and shows how students and teachers articulate themes of Islamism and neoliberalism.