Aiding violence : the development enterprise in Rwanda / / Peter Uvin

• Autore: Uvin Peter <1962->
• Pubblicazione: West Hartford, CT, : Kumarian Press, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Disciplina: 967.57104
• Soggetto topico: Genocide - Rwanda - History - 20th century; Economic assistance - Rwanda - History - 20th century; Tutsi (African people) - Crimes against - Rwanda - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Rwanda Ethnic relations; Rwanda Economic conditions
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-261) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Background -- 1 Rwanda before Independence: A Contested History -- 2 After Independence: Strategies for Elite Consolidation -- Development as Legitimization -- The Ideology of the Social Revolution -- The Roots of Prejudice -- The Institutionalized Structure of Prejudice -- 3 The Image of Rwanda in the Development Community -- The Importance of Development Aid in Rwanda -- The Image: Development against the Odds -- The Data -- From Development to Relief: Explaining the Transition -- Part II Crisis, Elite Manipulation, and Violence in the 1990s -- 4 Political and Economic Crises and the Radicalization of Society -- Economic Crises -- Political Crises -- From Elite Fear to the Incitation of Genocide -- Beyond the Standard Explanation -- 5 Under the Volcano: The Development Community in the 1990s -- On Knowledge and Ignorance -- The 1990s Development Community -- The Broader Picture -- Part III The Condition of Structural Violence -- 6 From Structural to Acute Violence -- Poverty and Inequality -- The Forces of Exclusion -- Prejudice and Humiliation -- From Structural Violence to Genocide -- 7 Aid and Structural Violence -- The Impact of Development Aid on Structural Violence -- Why the Blindness? -- Part IV Two Issues: The Role of Civil Society and Ecological Resource Scarcity -- 8 And Where Was Civil Society? -- Overview of the Associative Sector in Rwanda -- The Puzzle of Civil Society in Rwanda -- Civil Society: Quantity versus Quality -- On the Democratizing Impact of Civil Society -- 9 The Role of Ecological Resource Scarcity -- Rwanda's Ecology: An Overview -- Ecological Resource Scarcity: Challenges and Responses -- Genocide and Ecological Resource Scarcity -- Part V Conclusions -- 10 Why Did People Participate in Genocide? A Theoretically Informed Synthesis. ; Political Science and Sociological Explanations -- Psychological Explanations -- Additional Factors of Importance -- 11 Development Aid: Conclusions and Paths for Reflection -- The Dual Role of Aid -- The Politics of Development Interventions -- Democratization and Civil Society -- Aid and Political Conditionality -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Figure 3.1 Financial Flows into Rwanda, 1977-93 -- Figure 3.2 Rwanda's Imports and Exports -- Table 3.1 Economic Development Indicators -- Table 3.2 Some Social Indicators of Development -- Figure 4.1 Food and Agricultural Production Index -- Figure 4.2 Coffee and Tea Exports -- Table 4.1 Chronology of Political Events, September1990-April 1994 -- Table 5.1 Development Aid, 1987-93 -- Table 7.1 Thirty Years of Swiss Aid to Rwanda.
• Sommario/riassunto: *Winner of the African Studies Association's 1999 Herskovits Award *A boldly critical look at structural violence relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide Aiding Violence expresses outrage at the contradiction of massive genocide in a country considered by Western aid agencies to be a model of development. Focusing on the 1990s dynamics of militarization and polarization that resulted in genocide, Uvin reveals how aid enterprises reacted, or failed to react, to those dynamics. By outlining the profound structural basis on which the genocidal edifice was built, the book exposes practices of inequality, exclusion, and humiliation throughout Rwanda.
• Titolo autorizzato: Aiding violence
• ISBN: 1-56549-251-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812322203321
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