Peaceful Selves : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda /
Eramian, Laura
Peaceful Selves : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda / Laura Eramian. - 1 online resource (202 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Person, Nation, and Violence in Rwanda -- 1. The Post-Conflict Moment in Butare and Its Antecedents -- 2. Ethnicity’s Specter in Post-Ethnic Times -- 3. Living with Absence -- 4. Creativity, Positive Thinking, and Their Perils -- 5. Making Peace by Remaking Persons -- Conclusion: The Post-Conflict, the Postcolonial, and Peaceful Selves -- Glossary of Kinyarwanda terms -- Bibliography -- Index
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This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around “good” personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound dissonance in town residents’ selfhood. While they strive to be agents of change who can catalyze a new era of modern Rwandan nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. In drawing out the contradictions at the heart of self-making and social life in contemporary Rwanda, this book asserts a novel argument about the ordinary lives caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781785337116 9781785337123
10.1515/9781785337123 doi
Collective memory--Rwanda.
Collective memory--Rwanda.
Collective memory.
National characteristics, Rwandan.
Peace.
Reconciliation.
Self--Social aspects--Rwanda--Butare.
Self--Social aspects--Rwanda--Butare.
Self--Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Bürgerkrieg
Gewaltlosigkeit
Individuum
Konflikt
Politisches Verhalten
Sozialverhalten
Stadt
Völkermord
Auswirkung
Lebensstil
Gewalttätigkeit
Wirkung
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
1990s world history. biographical. ethnographic. ethnography. mourn. murdered. nationhood. personhood. post conflict society. prosper. psychology. recovery. rhetoric. rwanda genocide. rwandans. selfhood. small town. social life. sociology. victims of violence.
967.571043
Peaceful Selves : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda / Laura Eramian. - 1 online resource (202 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Person, Nation, and Violence in Rwanda -- 1. The Post-Conflict Moment in Butare and Its Antecedents -- 2. Ethnicity’s Specter in Post-Ethnic Times -- 3. Living with Absence -- 4. Creativity, Positive Thinking, and Their Perils -- 5. Making Peace by Remaking Persons -- Conclusion: The Post-Conflict, the Postcolonial, and Peaceful Selves -- Glossary of Kinyarwanda terms -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around “good” personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound dissonance in town residents’ selfhood. While they strive to be agents of change who can catalyze a new era of modern Rwandan nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. In drawing out the contradictions at the heart of self-making and social life in contemporary Rwanda, this book asserts a novel argument about the ordinary lives caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781785337116 9781785337123
10.1515/9781785337123 doi
Collective memory--Rwanda.
Collective memory--Rwanda.
Collective memory.
National characteristics, Rwandan.
Peace.
Reconciliation.
Self--Social aspects--Rwanda--Butare.
Self--Social aspects--Rwanda--Butare.
Self--Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Bürgerkrieg
Gewaltlosigkeit
Individuum
Konflikt
Politisches Verhalten
Sozialverhalten
Stadt
Völkermord
Auswirkung
Lebensstil
Gewalttätigkeit
Wirkung
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
1990s world history. biographical. ethnographic. ethnography. mourn. murdered. nationhood. personhood. post conflict society. prosper. psychology. recovery. rhetoric. rwanda genocide. rwandans. selfhood. small town. social life. sociology. victims of violence.
967.571043