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The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea
Jennifer Riggan
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Hardback. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; JHMC; JN; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
A 2003 law in Eritrea, a notoriously closed-off, heavily militarized, and authoritarian country, mandated an additional year of school for all children and stipulated that the classes be held at Sawa, the nation's military training center. As a result, educational institutions were directly implicated in the making of soldiers, putting Eritrean teachers in the untenable position of having to navigate between their devotion to educating the nation and their discontent with their role in the government program of mass militarization. In her provocative ethnography, The Struggling State, Jennifer Riggan examines the contradictions of state power as simultaneously oppressive to and ... Read more
A 2003 law in Eritrea, a notoriously closed-off, heavily militarized, and authoritarian country, mandated an additional year of school for all children and stipulated that the classes be held at Sawa, the nation's military training center. As a result, educational institutions were directly implicated in the making of soldiers, putting Eritrean teachers in the untenable position of having to navigate between their devotion to educating the nation and their discontent with their role in the government program of mass militarization. In her provocative ethnography, The Struggling State, Jennifer Riggan examines the contradictions of state power as simultaneously oppressive to and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439912706
SKU
V9781439912706
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About Jennifer Riggan
Jennifer Riggan is Associate Professor of International Studies in the Department of Historical and Political Studies at Arcadia University.
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