E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten
Reihe: Education
Sundberg Training for Model Citizenship
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-58422-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda
E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten
Reihe: Education
ISBN: 978-1-137-58422-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book provides an ethnography of a state-run civic education program based in a local neighborhood in Rwanda. In 2007, the Rwandan government launched a nationwide program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Today, this ideal is pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and everyday forms of government. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the daily government of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book asks how such a pursuit has come to affect Rwandans' relation to the state and what it may tell us about modern forms of authoritarian rule.
Molly Sundberg is Senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden. She previously worked for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in Stockholm and Rwanda.
