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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London :
Knowledge Unlatched,
2016.
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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.