Schooling the Nation

Education and Everyday Politics in Egypt

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Hania Sobhy, Gottingen) Sobhy, Hania (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG)

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Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, she reveals the constellations of violence, neglect and marketization that pervaded schools, and shows how young people negotiated the state and national belonging. By approaching schools as key disciplinary and nation-building institutions, this book outlines the various ways in which citizenship was produced, lived, and imagined during those critical years. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-29
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt415 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe Global Middle East
Antal sidor282
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108958332

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Hania Sobhy is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her research focuses on the politics of education, electoral mobilization and Islamism. She has been published in World Development, Nations & Nationalism, and Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. She has worked in education development since 2004 and is a regular contributor to the Egyptian Daily, al-Shorouk.

Introduction: schools as sites of lived and imagined citizenship; 1. The late Mubarak era, education and the research; 2. Living the intensities of the privatized state: the functioning and implications of marketization across the system; 3. Everyday violence and the dynamics of punishment across the schools; 4. Gendered noncompliance and the breakdown of discipline; 5. Textbook narratives of nationalism, belonging and citizenship; 6. Performing the nation, imagining citizenship: school rituals and oppositional narratives of non-belonging; 7. What changed in education since the Revolution? Conclusion: schooling the nation in the shadow of the uprising.

'This is a fascinating and ground-breaking book. With verve and rigor, Hania Sobhy shows how the impoverished financial and managerial conditions of the education sector in Egypt have made it totally inept. Instead, young Egyptians in school learn a mix of unenforced rules that breed cynicism and corruption, and pervasive violence through which money, class, and male power rules.' Ishac Diwan, École Normale Supérieure and Paris Sciences and Lettres