{"product_id":"the-struggling-state-9781439912706","title":"The Struggling State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 enacted by teachers. Riggan, who conducted participant observation with teachers in and out of schools, explores the tenuous hyphen between nation and state under lived conditions of everyday authoritarianism. The Struggling State shows how the hopes of Eritrean teachers and students for the future of their nati\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Everyday Authoritarianism, Teachers, and the Decoupling of Nation and State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Struggling for the Nation: Contradictions of Revolutionary Nationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 \"It Seemed like a Punishment\": Coercive State Effects and the Maddening State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Students or Soldiers? Troubled State Technologies and the Imagined Future of Educated Eritrea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Educating Eritrea: Disorder, Disruption, and Remaking the Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Teacher State: Morality and Everyday Sovereignty over Schools\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Escape, Encampment, and the Alchemy of Nationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408311329111,"sku":"9781439912706","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439912706.jpg?v=1730502392","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-struggling-state-9781439912706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}