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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797911703321

Autore

Purdeková Andrea

Titolo

Making ubumwe : power, state and camps in Rwanda's unity-building project / / by Andrea Purdeková

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-833-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Studies in forced migration ; ; volume 34

Disciplina

303.6/90967571

Soggetti

Civil society - Rwanda

Peace-building - Rwanda

Conflict management - Government policy - Rwanda

Conflict management - Rwanda

Rwanda Politics and government 1994-

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

Making Ubumwe; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Maps; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Kubaka Ubumwe; Chapter 2: Settling the Unsettled; Part II: The Political Process; Chapter 3: The Wording of Power; Chapter 4: The Presencing Effect; Chapter 5: Incorporation, Disconnect; Part III: Making Ubumwe; Chapter 6: Unity's Multiplicities; Chapter 7: Performances and Platforms; Chapter 8: Ingando Camps; Chapter 9: Rights of Passage; Part IV: Conclusions; Chapter 10: The Yeast of Change; Chapter 11: What Kind of Unity?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.