Fieldnotes for the UKRI-funded PhD project "Interiorising the borders of the nation: Civic education in Europe and the making of the Muslim citizen"

The bulk of the data supporting this study is non-digital. It comprises 14 notebooks of handwritten ethnographic fieldnotes taken over a 24-month period of fieldwork in Germany between 2020 and 2022. The aim of this fieldwork was to understand the workings Germany's far-flung sector of 'civic education' (politische Bildung), and to conceptualise the normative agendas of citizenship and belonging operative in the contemporary Federal Republic in particular in relation to citizen-subjects interpellated as Muslim.

These notes comprise participant observation at five different sets of sites:

Dedicated state-funded training seminars for civic educators and social workers

Projects of interreligious and intercultural dialogue

Six neighbourhood youth centres

A series of photography exhibitions commemorating the 'guest worker' labour migration agreement between Bonn and Ankara.

The non-digital data supporting this study are stored by the author in a secure locker at the London School of Economics and Political Science.