The Struggling State.

Following independence from Ethiopia, Eritrea?s leaders were praised for their success at building a coherent nation, but over the last two decades the government has increasingly turned to coercion particularly by forcing citizens into endless military service. The Struggling State: Teachers, Mass...

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Main Author: Riggan, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, United States Temple University Press 2016.
Series:Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Everyday authoritarianism, teachers and the tenuous hyphen in nation-state
  • Struggling for the nation: Contradictions of revolutionary nationalism
  • "It seemed like a punishment": Coercive state effects and the maddening state
  • Students or soldiers?: Troubled state technologies and the imagined future of educated Eritrea
  • Reeducating Eritrea: Disorder, disruption and remaking the nation
  • The teacher state: Morality and everyday sovereignty over schools
  • Conclusion: Escape, encampment and alchemical nationalism.