Post-Liberation Politics and Political Space in Eritrea: Interrogating Aspirations among Educated Youth
基于1996至2006年间对厄立特里亚高等教育青年的实证数据，探讨政治空间如何通过公民义务与个人抱负的平衡被界定，并揭示政治空间关闭如何损害国家目标。
This article discusses post-liberation politics in Eritrea through the lens of political space, making use of empirical data collected between 1996 and 2006 among youth in higher education. Political space is defined as a relational space whose boundaries are being created in constant balancing acts between enforced citizenship obligations and personal aspirations. This definition allows for an analysis of the contradictions between national development objectives and personal aspirations in the lives of research-protagonists, and through this provides important insights into the nature of the Eritrean state. Main findings demonstrate how closures of political space ultimately undermine important state objectives.