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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超越现代：尼日利亚北部穆斯林青年的民族想象

在一个日益不平等和新自由主义的世界中，不同民族主义的兴起使得对后国家、全球社会黎明的预测似乎既不协调又充满了以欧洲为中心的闭塞。作为回应，我们对尼日利亚北部穆斯林青年民族叙事的研究进行了后殖民分析。这凸显了国家对青年的持续重要性以及注入他们身份叙事的内部和外部的历史断裂。我们进一步展示了青年想象中民族和宗教的纠缠，以及他们反殖民的矛盾心理，尤其是在性别改革方面。我们的分析要求一种超越现代框架的民族社会学，而是关注构建民族想象的对抗性情感关系；