TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eramian,Laura
TI  - Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda 
SN  - 9781785337116
U1  - 967.571043 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Rwanda
KW  - National characteristics, Rwandan
KW  - Peace
KW  - Reconciliation
KW  - Self
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Butare
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Bürgerkrieg
KW  - gnd
KW  - Gewaltlosigkeit
KW  - Individuum
KW  - Konflikt
KW  - Politisches Verhalten
KW  - Sozialverhalten
KW  - Stadt
KW  - Völkermord
KW  - Auswirkung
KW  - Lebensstil
KW  - Gewalttätigkeit
KW  - Wirkung
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1990s world history
KW  - biographical
KW  - ethnographic
KW  - ethnography
KW  - mourn
KW  - murdered
KW  - nationhood
KW  - personhood
KW  - post conflict society
KW  - prosper
KW  - psychology
KW  - recovery
KW  - rhetoric
KW  - rwanda genocide
KW  - rwandans
KW  - selfhood
KW  - small town
KW  - social life
KW  - sociology
KW  - victims of violence
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785337123?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785337123
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785337123/original
ER  -