Schooling the nation : education and everyday politics in Egypt / Hania Sobhy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramadan, Hania Sobhy, author.

Series:

Global Middle East (Cambridge, England)

the global Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Political aspects--Egypt.

Education.

Education--Social aspects--Egypt.

Egypt--History--Protests, 2011-2013.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Schools as sites of lived and imagined citizenship

The late Mubarak era, education and the research

Living the intensities of the privatized state : the functioning and implications of marketization across the system

Everyday violence and the dynamics of punishment across the schools

Gendered noncompliance and the breakdown of discipline

Textbook narratives of nationalism, belonging and citizenship

Performing the nation, imagining citizenship : school rituals and oppositional narratives of non-belonging

What changed in education since the Revolution? Conclusion: Schooling the nation in the shadow of the uprising.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108956031 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.