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Dunne, Máiréad; Crossouard, Barbara; Agbaire, Jennifer and Bakari, Salihu
(2020).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520949835
Abstract
The rise of different nationalisms in an increasingly unequal and neoliberal world makes predictions about the dawn of a post-national, global society seem both incongruous and fraught with Eurocentric occlusions. In response, we present a postcolonial analysis of research into Muslim youth narratives of nation in Northern Nigeria. This highlights the continued significance of nation for youth as well as the historical fractures – both internal and external – that infused their identity narratives. We further show the entanglement of nation and religion in youth imaginaries, and their anti-colonial ambivalences, notably with respect to gender reforms. Our analysis calls for a sociology of nation that goes beyond a modern framing and instead attends to the agonistic affective relations through which national imaginaries are constructed; the historical sutures that were intrinsic to the creation of postcolonial nations and their enduring persistence as points of fracture.
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- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0038-0385
- Keywords
- gender; nation; Nigeria; postcolonial theory; religion; youth identities
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Education
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- Jennifer Agbaire