Chapter Two — WAR, SPATIOTEMPORAL PERCEPTION, AND THE NATION Fighters and Farmers in the Highlands

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ABBREVIATIONS vii
4. INTRODUCTION Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development in Contemporary Eritrea ix
5. Chapter One — PITFALLS OF NATIONALISM IN ERITREA 1
6. Chapter Two — WAR, SPATIOTEMPORAL PERCEPTION, AND THE NATION Fighters and Farmers in the Highlands 17
7. Chapter Three — THE YOUTH HAS GONE FROM OUR SOIL Place and Politics in Refugee Resettlement and Agrarian Development 34
8. Chapter Four — HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND THE STATE Higher Education in Postrevolutionary Eritrea 53
9. Chapter Five — AVOIDING WASTAGE BY MAKING SOLDIERS Technologies of the State and the Imagination of the Educated Nation 72
10. Chapter Six — TRAPPED IN ADOLESCENCE The Postwar Urban Generation 92
11. Chapter Seven — SEEKING ASYLUM IN A TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL FIELD New Refugees and Struggles for Autonomy and Human Rights 115
12. Chapter Eight — THE ERITREAN STATE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE 134
13. CONCLUSION Biopolitics and Dilemmas of Development in Eritrea and Elsewhere 159
14. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 171
15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 174
16. INDEX 190