The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization, And The Education Of Eritrea

ISBN: 9781439912706 出版年：2016 页码：259 Riggan, Jennifer Temple University Press

Following independence from Ethiopia, Eritrea 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鈥?redefined their relationship with the nation in response to the state increased authoritarianism and use of force. Extremes of coercion and control led Eritreans鈥?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.