Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Everyday Authoritarianism, Teachers, and the Decoupling of Nation and State 1

1 Struggling for the Nation: Contradictions of Revolutionary Nationalism 33

2 "It Seemed like a Punishment": Coercive State Effects and the Maddening State 57

3 Students or Soldiers? Troubled State Technologies and the Imagined Future of Educated Eritrea 89

4 Educating Eritrea: Disorder, Disruption, and Remaking the Nation 122

5 The Teacher State: Morality and Everyday Sovereignty over Schools 155

Conclusion: Escape, Encampment, and the Alchemy of Nationalism 193

Notes 211

References 227

Index 231