This interdisciplinary text compares citizen-making processes in European and Asian countries, and adopts an original approach by focusing upon the concept of citizenship as an effect of the educational enterprise.

Introduction: manufacturing citizenship: confronting public spheres and education in contemporaryworlds Veronique Benei Part I: Disciplining citizens 1. Educating towards a European citizenship: to discipline or emancipate? Reflections from France Etienne Balibar 2. The moral cultivation of citizenship in a Taiwan middle school, c.1990 Allen Chun 3. 'Discipline makes the nation great': visioning development and the Nepali nation-state through schools Martha Caddell 4. Disciplining ethnicity and citizenship in colonial Cyprus Rebecca Bryant Part II: National history and memory 5. Educating citizens through war museums in modern China Rana Mitter 6. Textbooks, nationalism and history writing in India and Pakistan Aminah Mohammad-Arif 7. 'Educating for legality': citizenship and the antimafia movement in Sicily Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider Part III: Frontiers of ethnicity 8. Citizenship, diversity and equality in English schools Audrey Osler 9. Language, ethnicity and internal frontiers: schooling civil society among China's minorities Naran Bilik 10. School stories and internal frontiers: tracing the domestic life of Anglo-Indian citizens Laura Bear