The Struggling State : Nationalism, Militarism, and the Education of Eritrea

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The work The Struggling State : Nationalism, Militarism, and the Education of Eritrea represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Struggling State : Nationalism, Militarism, and the Education of Eritrea

Title remainder

Nationalism, Militarism, and the Education of Eritrea

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer Riggan

Title variation

Struggling State, Nationalism, Militarism, and the Education of Eritrea

Creator

• Riggan, Jennifer

Author

• Riggan, Jennifer

Subject

• Civil-military relations
• Civil-military relations -- Eritrea
• Education and state
• Education and state -- Eritrea
• Militarism
• Militarism -- Eritrea
• Militarization
• Militarization -- Eritrea
• Nationalism
• Nationalism -- Eritrea
• Politics and government
• Teachers
• Teachers -- Eritrea
• African Studies
• Anthropology

Language

eng

Summary

• 'The Struggling State' explores Eritrean's disillusion with a government that permanently conscripts the vast majority of its citizens into the military, and examines teacher's paradoxical roles as educators who are trying to create a bright and peaceful future for the nation while situated to shuttle their students into the military
• 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 Militarization and the Reeducation of Eritrea is an ethnographic exploration of how citizens' redefined their relationship with the nation in response to the state's increased authoritarianism and use of force. Extremes of coercion and control led Eritreans' to imagine the once-heroic ruling party as turning against them, which, in turn unraveled the legitimacy of state-produced imaginaries of the nation. The book focuses on teachers, who were situated to do the work of hyphenating, or gluing, nation to state but instead had to navigate between their devotion to educating the nation and their discontent with their role in the government program of mass militarization. As teachers confronted their own conflicted imaginaries of the state and questioned what it meant to be Eritrean, they reeducated the nation, but not necessarily in the way the government wanted them to. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched

Cataloging source

UAB

Dewey number

320.9635

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

• JQ3583.A38
• JQ3583.A38

LC item number

R54 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

• Knowledge Unlatched
• Open Access e-Books