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Making ‹i›Ubumwe‹/i› : Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project / Andrea Purdeková.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Forced Migration ; 34Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782388326
  • 9781782388333
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  • 305.800967571
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Figure 1. Map of Rwanda indicating the location of ingando camps xiii visited during fieldwork -- Figure 2. A sketch of the Nkumba ingando camp -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Kubaka Ubumwe: Building Unity in a Divided Society -- 2 Settling the Unsettled: The Politics and Policing of Meaning in Rwanda -- Part II The Political Process -- 3 The Wording of Power: Legitimization as Narrative Currency -- 4 The Presencing Effect: Surveillance and State Reach in Rwanda -- 5 Incorporation, Disconnect: The Embodiments of Power and the Unworking of Contestation in Rwanda -- Part III: Making Ubumwe: The Imageries, Planning and Performances of Unity in Rwanda -- 6 Unity’s Multiplicities: Ambiguity at Work -- 7 Performances and Platforms: Activities of Unity and Reconciliation in the Contexts of Power -- 8 Ingando Camps: Nation Building as Consent Building -- 9 Rights of Passage: Liminality and the Reproduction of Power -- Part IV Conclusions -- 10 The Yeast of Change: Civic Education, Social Transformation and the New Development Corps -- 11 What Kind of Unity? Prospects for Coexistence, Social Justice and Peace -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. Reaching beyond the better-studied topics of post-conflict justice and memory, the book investigates the project of civic education, the upsurge of state-led neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the use of camps and retreats shape the “ideal” Rwandan citizen. Rwanda’s ingando camps offer unique insights into the uses of dislocation and liminality in an attempt to anchor identities and desired political roles, to practically orient and symbolically place individuals in the new Rwandan order, and, ultimately, to create additional platforms for the reproduction of political power itself.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Figure 1. Map of Rwanda indicating the location of ingando camps xiii visited during fieldwork -- Figure 2. A sketch of the Nkumba ingando camp -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Kubaka Ubumwe: Building Unity in a Divided Society -- 2 Settling the Unsettled: The Politics and Policing of Meaning in Rwanda -- Part II The Political Process -- 3 The Wording of Power: Legitimization as Narrative Currency -- 4 The Presencing Effect: Surveillance and State Reach in Rwanda -- 5 Incorporation, Disconnect: The Embodiments of Power and the Unworking of Contestation in Rwanda -- Part III: Making Ubumwe: The Imageries, Planning and Performances of Unity in Rwanda -- 6 Unity’s Multiplicities: Ambiguity at Work -- 7 Performances and Platforms: Activities of Unity and Reconciliation in the Contexts of Power -- 8 Ingando Camps: Nation Building as Consent Building -- 9 Rights of Passage: Liminality and the Reproduction of Power -- Part IV Conclusions -- 10 The Yeast of Change: Civic Education, Social Transformation and the New Development Corps -- 11 What Kind of Unity? Prospects for Coexistence, Social Justice and Peace -- Bibliography -- Index

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Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. Reaching beyond the better-studied topics of post-conflict justice and memory, the book investigates the project of civic education, the upsurge of state-led neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the use of camps and retreats shape the “ideal” Rwandan citizen. Rwanda’s ingando camps offer unique insights into the uses of dislocation and liminality in an attempt to anchor identities and desired political roles, to practically orient and symbolically place individuals in the new Rwandan order, and, ultimately, to create additional platforms for the reproduction of political power itself.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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