Schooling the Nation: Education and Everyday Politics in Egypt (The Global Middle East)

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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. Cover Half-title Series information Other books in the series: Title page Copyright information Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction: Schools as Sites of Lived and Imagined Citizenship Key Arguments Approach and Key Themes Lived and Imagined Citizenship Lived Citizenship in Schools: Markets, Violence and Discipline Privatization Violence, Discipline and Punishment Imagined Citizenship in Schools: Textbooks, Rituals and Everyday Narratives Studying Citizenship and Subjectivation in Schools Outline of the Book 1 The Late Mubarak Era, Education and the Research Transitioning to Neoliberalism From Socialist Arabism to Neoliberal Islamism ''There Is No Education'': Quality, Equity and the Secondary Stage Tracking and Quality in the Secondary Stage Nationalism and Citizenship in Textbooks and Everyday School Relations The Securitization and Islamization of Schools The Research and Its Limitations Sampling the Textbooks for Discourses of Citizenship and Belonging 2 Living the Intensities of the Privatized State: Informal Marketization across the System Informal Privatization in Egyptian Education Markets of Theatre in Technical Schools Markets of Illusion for the Middle Classes Emperors and Republics for the Highest Income Groups Inequality, Contested Marketization and Neoliberal Teachers 3 Everyday Violence and Punishment in the Schools School Punishment in Perspective Beating and Humiliation in the Public Schools The Drivers of Violent Punishment Disciplining and Shaming in the Private Schools Violent Punishment, Poverty and Masculinity A Demonstration in Support of Beating? Conclusion 4 Gendered Noncompliance and the Breakdown of Discipline Authoritarian Schooling, Obedience and Noncompliance Harsh Punishment Noncompliance Gendered Noncompliance and Contestation Permissiveness and the Semblance of Discipline Gender Surveillance and Contestation The Loss of Public Safety: Sexual Harassment and Moral Blame Impossible Femininities and Injured Masculinities Conclusion 5 Nationalism, Belonging and Citizenship in Official Textbooks Patriotism, Belonging and Loyalty Wa Islamah and the Centrality of Islamist Nationalism The Good Citizen, Islam and Neoliberalism Arabic Essay Questions as Regime Messages Author, Textbook, Teacher, Student 6 Performing the Nation, Imagining Citizenship: School Rituals and Oppositional Non-belonging Performing the Nation in School Un-loving the Nation Constructions of Citizenship among Students Locating Neoliberal and Islamist Citizenship Conclusion 7 What Has Changed in Education Since the Revolution? Key Developments in the Post-Uprising Context Education after the Uprising: Ambitious Plans, Budgets Halved Business as Usual in the Privatized State Contested Punishment: Restraint and Continuity Textbook Citizenship Narratives under the SCAF, the Brotherhood and Sisi The National Drama in School Conclusion Conclusion: Schooling the Nation in the Shadow of the Uprising Lived Citizenship under Permissive-Repressive Neoliberalism Privatization and Austerity Permissiveness Repression and Everyday Violence Differentiation and Contestation Is This Mode of Governance Really Neoliberal? The Transformation of the School as a Disciplinary Institution Official Narratives and Rituals of Legitimation Student Narratives of Imagined Citizenship and National Belonging Conclusion Bibliography Textbooks Cited Index