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Beyond the modern: Muslim youth imaginaries of nation in Northern Nigeria
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posted on 2023-06-07, 08:52 authored by Mairead DunneMairead Dunne, Barbara CrossouardBarbara Crossouard, Jennifer Agbaire, Salihu BakariThe rise of different nationalisms in an increasingly unequal and neoliberal world make 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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SociologyISSN
0038-0385Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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6Volume
54Page range
1122-1140Department affiliated with
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2020-07-21First Open Access (FOA) Date
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