LEADER 04256nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910739421903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-007-6434-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-6434-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000105367 035 $a(EBL)1317246 035 $a(OCoLC)847839578 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001013295 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11663624 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001013295 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10974112 035 $a(PQKB)10441687 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-007-6434-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1317246 035 $a(PPN)170494721 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000105367 100 $a20130320d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPeasants in power $ethe political economy of development and genocide in Rwanda /$fPhilip Verwimp 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aNew York $cSpringer$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (0 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-017-8164-8 311 $a94-007-6433-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introductory Chapter: Development, Dictatorship and Genocide -- Chapter 2. The Nature of the Second Republic -- Chapter 3. The Rwandan Economy 1973-1994: From Macro to Micro -- Chapter 4. The Political Economy of Coffee and Dictatorship -- Chapter 5. Crop Failure and Famine in Southern Rwanda -- Chapter 6. The 1990-92 Massacres: A Case of Spatial and Social Engeneering? -- Chapter 7. Civil War, Multipartism, Coup d?Etat and Genocide -- Chapter 8. Collective Action, Norms and Peasant Participation in Genocide -- Chapter 9. Fieldwork in Gitarama: Introduction, Setting and Methods; Co-authored by Jacob Boersema and Philip Verwimp -- Chapter 10. The Developmental State at Work: Agricultural Monitors becoming Political Entrepreneurs; Co-authored by Jacob Boersema, Arlette Brone, Jerome Charlier, Bert Ingelaere, Shanley Pinchotti, Inge Thiry, Cecelle Meijer, Marij Spiesschaert and Philip Verwimp -- Chapter 11. Concluding Chapter: The Endogenous Genocide. 330 $aThis book shows how Rwanda?s development model and the organisation of genocide are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of mineral resources, the elite organised and managed the labour of peasant producers as efficient as possible. In order to stay in power and benefit from it, the presidential clan chose a development model that would not change the political status quo. When the latter was threatened, the elite invoked the preservation of group welfare of the Hutu, called for Hutu unity and solidarity and relied on the great mass (rubanda nyamwinshi) for the execution of the genocide. A strategy as simple as it is horrific. The genocide can be regarded as the ultimate act of self-preservation through annihilation under the veil of self-defense.             Why did tens of thousands of ordinary people massacred tens of thousands other ordinary people in Rwanda in 1994? What has agricultural policy and rural ideology to do with it?  What was the role of the Akazu, the presidential clan around president Habyarimana?  Did the civil war cause the genocide? And what insights can a political economy perspective offer ? Based on more than ten years of research, and engaging with competing and complementary arguments of authors such as Peter Uvin, Alison Des Forges, Scott Strauss, René Lemarchand, Filip Reyntjens, Mahmood Mamdani and André Guichaoua, the author blends economics, politics and agrarian studies to provide a new way of understanding  the nexus between development and genocide in Rwanda. Students and practitioners of development as well as everyone interested in the causes of violent conflict and genocide in Africa and around the world will find this book compelling to read. 606 $aGenocide$zRwanda 607 $aRwanda$xHistory 615 0$aGenocide 676 $a300 700 $aVerwimp$b Philip$01424062 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910739421903321 996 $aPeasants in Power$93552929 997 $aUNINA