The proposed paper ties into the themes social fabrics and urban practices in Amman, Jordan. It explores the multifaceted relationships between state, city and inhabitants through the lens of performativity of citizenship and gender studies. I use the term city space rather than urban space to emphasise the spatial aspect of performing gender and belonging to a specific city, Amman, rather than urban practices in general. Moving between macro (state) to micro (quotidian), the everyday urban practices and imaginations of belonging to the city can be interrogated by focussing on official and hidden scripts of government-individual interactions. Specifically this paper is based on ethnographies of passport offices and art spaces, arguing that the power dynamics at work are more similiar than initially expected. This means looking at the relation between government practices, or official narratives of belonging to the city, and everyday practices and imaginations of the city's inhabitants. While these scripts themselves are not documented, we can attempt to extract them by focussing on the gendered performativity of everyday practices and experiences of citizenship. Focussing on performativity, a major interest lies in shedding light on the possibility gaps in official national scripts, in contradicting scripts, and how this opens cracks for alternatives in creating and imagining the fabric of Amman.