Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-832-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Purdeková, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Purdeková, Andrea
Andrea Purdeková is Senior Lecturer in Conflict and Security at the University of Bath. Prior to this she held a Departmental Lectureship in African Politics at the African Studies Centre, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellowship at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.