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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254960903321

Autore

Sundberg Molly

Titolo

Training for Model Citizenship [[electronic resource] ] : An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda / / by Molly Sundberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-58422-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Disciplina

370.115

Soggetti

Educational policy

Education and state

Educational Policy and Politics

Rwanda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Itorero Today and Yesterday: Making and Remaking Rwanda -- 3. Rwanda and Rwandans in the Post-Genocide Political Imaginary -- 4. Local Voices on Rwanda and Rwandans -- 5. Model Citizens in the Making: Government as Designed -- 6. “Manufacturing” Model Citizens: Governing in Everyday Encounters -- 7. Securing Rwanda: A Fearful Civic Duty -- 8. Realizing the Development Vision 2020 -- 9. Searching for the Prerequisites of Acceptance. .

Sommario/riassunto

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. .