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Politics of Innocence : Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life / Simon Turner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Forced Migration ; 30Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845456917
  • 9781845458454
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89639461
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Troubled Nature of Innocence -- 2 Histories of Conflict -- 3 The Biopolitics of Innocence -- 4 Camp Life and Moral Decay -- 5 ‘Big Men’ and ‘Liminal Experts’ -- 6 Rumour and Politics -- 7 Innocence Lost -- 8 Conclusion -- Postscript: What Happened to the Camp? -- References -- Index
Summary: Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question of victimhood among Burundian Hutu is increasingly challenged, following the 1993 massacres in Burundi and the Rwandan genocide. The book explores how different groups within the camp apply different strategies to cope with these issues and how the question of innocence and victimhood is itself imbued with ambiguity, as young men struggle to recuperate their masculinity and their political subjectivity.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Troubled Nature of Innocence -- 2 Histories of Conflict -- 3 The Biopolitics of Innocence -- 4 Camp Life and Moral Decay -- 5 ‘Big Men’ and ‘Liminal Experts’ -- 6 Rumour and Politics -- 7 Innocence Lost -- 8 Conclusion -- Postscript: What Happened to the Camp? -- References -- Index

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Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question of victimhood among Burundian Hutu is increasingly challenged, following the 1993 massacres in Burundi and the Rwandan genocide. The book explores how different groups within the camp apply different strategies to cope with these issues and how the question of innocence and victimhood is itself imbued with ambiguity, as young men struggle to recuperate their masculinity and their political subjectivity.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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