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

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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