Navigating Post-Genocide Social Relations

Memory, Power and Legacy in Rwanda
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-44089-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

This book offers new empirical and theoretical perspectives on Rwanda, thirty years after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. While Rwanda remains one of the most intensively studied post-conflict societies, important questions persist about how memory, power, identity, and everyday social relations continue to shape life within and beyond its borders. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, the volume is grounded in extensive fieldwork with survivors, former perpetrators, women, diaspora communities, researchers, and other actors navigating the complex legacies of genocide.

Rather than focusing exclusively on state institutions or elite political narratives, contributors examine how power is experienced and negotiated from the ground up. Chapters explore memorialization, gender, displacement, transitional justice, community reintegration, environmental narratives, research ethics, and the politics of memory, demonstrating how ordinary people navigate both the opportunities and constraints of post-genocide society. Together, these contributions advance interdisciplinary debates while highlighting voices and experiences that have too often remained at the margins of scholarship.

Navigating Post-Genocide Social Relations is essential reading for students and scholars in genocide studies, memory studies, African studies, transitional justice, conflict resolution, political science, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in post-conflict reconstruction and human rights.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Genocide Research.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davey, Christopher P.

Fox, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Post-Genocide Research in Rwanda: Navigating the State from the Ground-up 1. Survivor Agency in the Post-Genocide Memorialization Process in Rwanda 2. Erasing Refugees: Displaced Memories of Camps as Killing Fields in the First Congo War 3. Intersecting Inequalities After Incarceration for Genocide: Women’s Economic, Social, and Political Reintegration Struggles in Rwanda 4. Micro-Analysis of Victim-Survivors’ Stories: Nuancing the Dynamics and Complexities of Sexual Violence During the Genocide Against the Tutsi 5. Mutware’s Story: (Re)centreing Humanism via Multispecies Storytelling in Post-Genocide Rwanda 6. The Third Shift: The Highs and Lows for Women Gacaca Court Judges in Rwanda 7. Lessons from the Field: Experts Weigh in on Years of Conducting Fieldwork in Post-Atrocity Zones 8. Perspectives from the Prosecutor: The Contribution of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher P. Davey holds a doctorate in Peace Studies and International Development from the University of Bradford and is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Utah Valley University. His research focuses on identity, narrative, and emerging perspectives on genocide, including fieldwork with Banyamulenge soldiers in central Africa and the diaspora. He is author of The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide Between Congo and Rwanda (2025). A Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar and lead researcher with Education for Global Peace, he serves on the Peace and Justice Studies Research and Publications Committee.

Nicole Fox is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University Sacramento. Her research examines how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities, focusing on remembrances of adversity, social change, and collective memory. Her book After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (2021) explores how memorials to past atrocity impact community development and reconciliation for survivors of genocide and genocidal rape. Her work has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the National Science Foundation. She serves on the United Nations Economic and Social Council and contributes to the UN Commission for the Status of Women.