Hannah Hoechner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 109716 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hannah Hoechner |
| PRENOMES | Hannah |
| SOBRENOME | Hoechner |
| ASSINATURA | HOECHNER H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6804-2819 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Exploring the Nexus Between Islamic Education and Violent Conflict
This article explores the nexus between Islamic education and violent conflict, providing insights into the dynamics of Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency. Studies on Islamic education and conflict have mostly asked whether Islamic schools contribute to militancy, showing limited interest in their students and teachers. Drawing on 76 interviews and group conversations conducted in northeast Nigeria in 2021–24, we explore what role Qur’anic schools p…
Is education haram ? How former members of north-east Nigeria’s insurgency view and experience ‘Western’ education
Conflict related to the ‘Boko Haram’ insurgency has ravaged north-east Nigeria and its neighbouring countries for over a decade. Much public and media attention has focused on the insurgents’ apparent hostility towards Western ( boko ) education. Yet, education has received relatively little attention within scholarship of the insurgency. Drawing on eighteen interviews and group conversations with former members conducted in 2021 and 2024, we exp…
Transnational Migration and Educational Change
Studies on migration and education have examined homeland returns as part of family strategies around acquiring desired cultural capital. However, the impact of return migration and transnational mobility on homeland educational landscapes remains under-researched. Using ethnographic data from Ghana, Senegal, the UK and the US, this paper shows how 'international' schools on the African continent have emerged as places where young transnational A…
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Senegalese migrants’ children, homeland returns, and Islamic education in a transnational setting
Homeland visits and stays have only recently began to receive attention within the growing literature on the religious beliefs and practices of ‘second generation’ Muslims in Western contexts, just as African Muslims have largely been neglected within this emerging field. Drawing on data collected over a total of 14 months among Senegalese migrant communities in the greater New York area, and in Islamic schools receiving migrants’ children in Dak…
Mobility, social reproduction and triple minority status
A growing body of literature explores how transnational migration from Africa to Western countries affects childrearing practices. While the motivations and constraints underpinning parents’ decisions to raise children partly or entirely in the ‘homeland’ are fairly well documented, much less is known about young people’s experiences of transnational mobility and about its relationship to social reproduction. Drawing on data collected over 14 mon…
Elisha Renne, Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria
Constructions of the 'educated person' in the context of mobility, migration and globalisation
This special issue showcases ethnographies with young people in the Global South which draw on the common conceptual umbrella of the 'identity of the educated person' to unpack novel intersections between mobility, migration and education in the context of globalisation. Overarching themes include how definitions of the educated person are shaped by diverse identity constructions and axes of difference, notions of discipline and hardship, and glo…
Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria
In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalisation and militancy, poor Muslim youth, especially those socialised in religious seminaries, have attracted overwhelmingly negative attention. In northern Nigeria, male Qur’anic students have garnered a reputation of resorting to violence in order to claim their share of highly unequally distributed resources. Drawing on material from long-term ethnographic and participatory fieldwork …
Accomplice, patron, go-between? A role to play with poor migrant Qur'anic students in northern Nigeria
What does it mean to conduct ethnographic research in a context where inequalities are pervasive? Drawing on experiences conducting research with poor migrant Qur'anic students ( almajirai) in Kano, northern Nigeria, this article explores the challenges of establishing productive and ethical research relationships with informants whose social and socioeconomic status is significantly lower than that of the researcher. The article argues that larg…
Nous voulons les professeurs de hadiths ! »
Le paysage religieux du nord du Nigeria s’est considérablement transformé ces dernières décennies. Avec la montée en puissance des idéologies islamiques réformatrices, de nouveaux corpus de savoirs religieux sont enseignés dans les écoles islamiques « modernes » ( islamiyya ), aujourd’hui omniprésentes. Cette évolution s’est accompagnée d’approches inédites de la gestion de ces connaissances, les réformistes plaidant pour leur « démocratisation »…
Porridge, Piety and Patience
Inequalities are growing on a global scale and rising consumerism has exacerbated the negative connotations of material deprivation in many places. What does this imply for how poor people experience their situation? What role does religion play in their lives? This paper explores these questions by studying how young Qur'anic students (almajirai) in Kano in northern Nigeria experience, and deal with, being poor. In the context of growing violent…
Traditional Quranic students (almajirai) in Nigeria
The enrolment of many boys and young men in traditional Quranic schools rather than in formal education has become an issue of growing concern in northern Nigeria. The almajirai, the students of such schools, have attracted attention in the context of increased attempts to universalise primary education and growing concerns about child welfare. They have also been discussed as potential ‘foot soldiers’ for violence in the context of Boko Haram. A…
Sects and Social Disorder
Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian, with consequences for long-term peacemaking
Participatory filmmaking with Qur’anic students in Kano, Nigeria
‘Participatory’ research is often presented as a means to ‘empower’ stigmatised groups by addressing shame and by promoting attitude changes. Drawing on experiences producing a ‘participatory’ docudrama with traditional Qur’anic students (almajirai) in Kano, northern Nigeria, I reflect on the limits of ‘participatory’ research as a tool for ‘empowerment’. I describe the risks stigmatised groups may incur by participating, and consider to what ext…
Mobility as a contradictory resource
Mobility is a powerful resource young people can draw on to improve their lives, but it can also entail risks. This paper explores how mobility becomes a contradictory resource for peripatetic Qur'anic students (almajirai) in Kano State in northern Nigeria. Moving to urban areas allows the young almajirai to escape difficult conditions and to access educational and income opportunities absent in their rural homes. It makes it possible for them to…
Striving for Knowledge and Dignity
Senegalese migrants’ children, homeland returns, and Islamic education in a transnational setting
Homeland visits and stays have only recently began to receive attention within the growing literature on the religious beliefs and practices of ‘second generation’ Muslims in Western contexts, just as African Muslims have largely been neglected within this emerging field. Drawing on data collected over a total of 14 months among Senegalese migrant communities in the greater New York area, and in Islamic schools receiving migrants’ children in Dak…
Constructions of the 'educated person' in the context of mobility, migration and globalisation
This special issue showcases ethnographies with young people in the Global South which draw on the common conceptual umbrella of the 'identity of the educated person' to unpack novel intersections between mobility, migration and education in the context of globalisation. Overarching themes include how definitions of the educated person are shaped by diverse identity constructions and axes of difference, notions of discipline and hardship, and glo…
Striving for Knowledge and Dignity
Participatory filmmaking with Qur’anic students in Kano, Nigeria
‘Participatory’ research is often presented as a means to ‘empower’ stigmatised groups by addressing shame and by promoting attitude changes. Drawing on experiences producing a ‘participatory’ docudrama with traditional Qur’anic students (almajirai) in Kano, northern Nigeria, I reflect on the limits of ‘participatory’ research as a tool for ‘empowerment’. I describe the risks stigmatised groups may incur by participating, and consider to what ext…
Transnational Migration and Educational Change
Studies on migration and education have examined homeland returns as part of family strategies around acquiring desired cultural capital. However, the impact of return migration and transnational mobility on homeland educational landscapes remains under-researched. Using ethnographic data from Ghana, Senegal, the UK and the US, this paper shows how 'international' schools on the African continent have emerged as places where young transnational A…
Mobility, social reproduction and triple minority status
A growing body of literature explores how transnational migration from Africa to Western countries affects childrearing practices. While the motivations and constraints underpinning parents’ decisions to raise children partly or entirely in the ‘homeland’ are fairly well documented, much less is known about young people’s experiences of transnational mobility and about its relationship to social reproduction. Drawing on data collected over 14 mon…
Mobility as a contradictory resource
Mobility is a powerful resource young people can draw on to improve their lives, but it can also entail risks. This paper explores how mobility becomes a contradictory resource for peripatetic Qur'anic students (almajirai) in Kano State in northern Nigeria. Moving to urban areas allows the young almajirai to escape difficult conditions and to access educational and income opportunities absent in their rural homes. It makes it possible for them to…
Porridge, Piety and Patience
Inequalities are growing on a global scale and rising consumerism has exacerbated the negative connotations of material deprivation in many places. What does this imply for how poor people experience their situation? What role does religion play in their lives? This paper explores these questions by studying how young Qur'anic students (almajirai) in Kano in northern Nigeria experience, and deal with, being poor. In the context of growing violent…
Accomplice, patron, go-between? A role to play with poor migrant Qur'anic students in northern Nigeria
What does it mean to conduct ethnographic research in a context where inequalities are pervasive? Drawing on experiences conducting research with poor migrant Qur'anic students ( almajirai) in Kano, northern Nigeria, this article explores the challenges of establishing productive and ethical research relationships with informants whose social and socioeconomic status is significantly lower than that of the researcher. The article argues that larg…
Striving for Knowledge and Dignity
Mobility as a contradictory resource
Mobility is a powerful resource young people can draw on to improve their lives, but it can also entail risks. This paper explores how mobility becomes a contradictory resource for peripatetic Qur'anic students (almajirai) in Kano State in northern Nigeria. Moving to urban areas allows the young almajirai to escape difficult conditions and to access educational and income opportunities absent in their rural homes. It makes it possible for them to…
Traditional Quranic students (almajirai) in Nigeria
The enrolment of many boys and young men in traditional Quranic schools rather than in formal education has become an issue of growing concern in northern Nigeria. The almajirai, the students of such schools, have attracted attention in the context of increased attempts to universalise primary education and growing concerns about child welfare. They have also been discussed as potential ‘foot soldiers’ for violence in the context of Boko Haram. A…
Sects and Social Disorder
Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian, with consequences for long-term peacemaking
Participatory filmmaking with Qur’anic students in Kano, Nigeria
‘Participatory’ research is often presented as a means to ‘empower’ stigmatised groups by addressing shame and by promoting attitude changes. Drawing on experiences producing a ‘participatory’ docudrama with traditional Qur’anic students (almajirai) in Kano, northern Nigeria, I reflect on the limits of ‘participatory’ research as a tool for ‘empowerment’. I describe the risks stigmatised groups may incur by participating, and consider to what ext…
Porridge, Piety and Patience
Inequalities are growing on a global scale and rising consumerism has exacerbated the negative connotations of material deprivation in many places. What does this imply for how poor people experience their situation? What role does religion play in their lives? This paper explores these questions by studying how young Qur'anic students (almajirai) in Kano in northern Nigeria experience, and deal with, being poor. In the context of growing violent…
Nous voulons les professeurs de hadiths ! »
Le paysage religieux du nord du Nigeria s’est considérablement transformé ces dernières décennies. Avec la montée en puissance des idéologies islamiques réformatrices, de nouveaux corpus de savoirs religieux sont enseignés dans les écoles islamiques « modernes » ( islamiyya ), aujourd’hui omniprésentes. Cette évolution s’est accompagnée d’approches inédites de la gestion de ces connaissances, les réformistes plaidant pour leur « démocratisation »…
Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria
In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalisation and militancy, poor Muslim youth, especially those socialised in religious seminaries, have attracted overwhelmingly negative attention. In northern Nigeria, male Qur’anic students have garnered a reputation of resorting to violence in order to claim their share of highly unequally distributed resources. Drawing on material from long-term ethnographic and participatory fieldwork …
Accomplice, patron, go-between? A role to play with poor migrant Qur'anic students in northern Nigeria
What does it mean to conduct ethnographic research in a context where inequalities are pervasive? Drawing on experiences conducting research with poor migrant Qur'anic students ( almajirai) in Kano, northern Nigeria, this article explores the challenges of establishing productive and ethical research relationships with informants whose social and socioeconomic status is significantly lower than that of the researcher. The article argues that larg…
Constructions of the 'educated person' in the context of mobility, migration and globalisation
This special issue showcases ethnographies with young people in the Global South which draw on the common conceptual umbrella of the 'identity of the educated person' to unpack novel intersections between mobility, migration and education in the context of globalisation. Overarching themes include how definitions of the educated person are shaped by diverse identity constructions and axes of difference, notions of discipline and hardship, and glo…
Senegalese migrants’ children, homeland returns, and Islamic education in a transnational setting
Homeland visits and stays have only recently began to receive attention within the growing literature on the religious beliefs and practices of ‘second generation’ Muslims in Western contexts, just as African Muslims have largely been neglected within this emerging field. Drawing on data collected over a total of 14 months among Senegalese migrant communities in the greater New York area, and in Islamic schools receiving migrants’ children in Dak…
Mobility, social reproduction and triple minority status
A growing body of literature explores how transnational migration from Africa to Western countries affects childrearing practices. While the motivations and constraints underpinning parents’ decisions to raise children partly or entirely in the ‘homeland’ are fairly well documented, much less is known about young people’s experiences of transnational mobility and about its relationship to social reproduction. Drawing on data collected over 14 mon…
Elisha Renne, Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Transnational Migration and Educational Change
Studies on migration and education have examined homeland returns as part of family strategies around acquiring desired cultural capital. However, the impact of return migration and transnational mobility on homeland educational landscapes remains under-researched. Using ethnographic data from Ghana, Senegal, the UK and the US, this paper shows how 'international' schools on the African continent have emerged as places where young transnational A…
Is education haram ? How former members of north-east Nigeria’s insurgency view and experience ‘Western’ education
Conflict related to the ‘Boko Haram’ insurgency has ravaged north-east Nigeria and its neighbouring countries for over a decade. Much public and media attention has focused on the insurgents’ apparent hostility towards Western ( boko ) education. Yet, education has received relatively little attention within scholarship of the insurgency. Drawing on eighteen interviews and group conversations with former members conducted in 2021 and 2024, we exp…
Exploring the Nexus Between Islamic Education and Violent Conflict
This article explores the nexus between Islamic education and violent conflict, providing insights into the dynamics of Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency. Studies on Islamic education and conflict have mostly asked whether Islamic schools contribute to militancy, showing limited interest in their students and teachers. Drawing on 76 interviews and group conversations conducted in northeast Nigeria in 2021–24, we explore what role Qur’anic schools p…
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