ISBN:
9781782388333
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
306 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Forced Migration 34
Keywords:
General Anthropology, Refugee & Migration Studies
Abstract:
Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. Reaching beyond the better-studied topics of post-conflict justice and memory, the book investigates the project of civic education, the upsurge of state-led neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the use of camps and retreats shape the "ideal" Rwandan citizen. Rwanda's ingando camps offer unique insights into the uses of dislocation and liminality in an attempt to anchor identities and desired political roles, to practically orient and symbolically place individuals in the new Rwandan order, and, ultimately, to create additional platforms for the reproduction of political power itself.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Map I: Rwanda -- Map II: The Layout of Nkumba Ingando Camp -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Kubaka Ubumwe: Building Unity in a Divided Society -- Chapter 2. Settling the Unsettled: The Politics and Policing of Meaning in Rwanda -- PART II: THE POLITICAL PROCESS -- Chapter 3. The Wording of Power: Legitimisation as Narrative Currency and Political Intimation -- Chapter 4. The Presencing Effect: Surveillance and State Reach in Rwanda -- Chapter 5. Incorporation, Disconnect: The Embodiments of Power and the Unworking of Contestation -- PART III: MAKING 'UBUMWE': THE IMAGERIES, PLANNING AND PERFORMANCES OF 'UNITY' IN RWANDA -- Chapter 6. Unity's Multiplicities: Ambiguity at Work -- Chapter 7. Performances and Platforms: Activities of Unity and Reconciliation in the Contexts of Power -- Chapter 8. Ingando Camps: Nation Building as Consent Building -- Chapter 9. Rights of Passage: Liminality and the Reproduction of Power -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 10. The Yeast of Change: Civic Education, Social Transformation and the New Development Corps -- Chapter 11. What Kind of Unity? Prospects for Co-existence, Social Justice and Peace -- Bibliography -- Index --
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