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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Riggan, Jennifer, 1971- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press 2016
2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.