Download or read book Citizenship, Nationalism and Islam: the Hidden Stories of Girls' Educational, and Emotional Experiences in Balochistan written by Sidra Rind (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My research examines how the education system, tasked with shaping citizens and their relations to one another and to the state, works in the gendered and socio-religiously segregated terrain of Pakistan, to (re)fashion women's experiences of political and social citizenship. I examine the production of a 'Pakistani' identity with respect to three main signifiers - religion, gender and nationalism - among the young girls of Pakistan. To do so, I conducted curricular and educational policy content analysis and ethnographic fieldwork in Quetta, Pakistan. While using critical ethnographic stance, I demonstrate how schools (re)produce and (re)configure Pakistani girlhood. On the one hand, textbooks and teachers construct the 'ideal' Pakistani Muslim woman by restrictively locating her in school and private, domestic spaces. On the other, female students and teachers contest such (re)presentations of the ideal by strategically employing narratives of belonging - whether to family, kin, class or ethnic, religious and national groups. In recording this ongoing contestation, my dissertation offers new insights into the co-construction of citizenship and belonging in schools and engages broader debates about how young women are or are not incorporated into community, national, and international politics and polities.