Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Sundberg, Molly, author.

Title Training for model citizenship : an ethnography of civic education and state-making in Rwanda / Molly Sundberg
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource (x, 276 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Itorero Today and Yesterday: Making and Remaking Rwanda -- 3. Rwanda and Rwandans in the Post- Genocide Political Imaginary -- 4. Local Voices on Rwanda and Rwandans -- 5. Model Citizens in the Making: Government as Designed -- 6. "Manufacturing" Model Citizens: Governing in Everyday Encounters -- 7. Securing Rwanda: A Fearful Civic Duty -- 8. Realizing the Development Vision 2020 -- 9. Searching for the Prerequisites of Acceptance
Summary "This book provides an ethnography of a state-run civic education program based in a local neighborhood in Rwanda. In 2007, the Rwandan government launched a nationwide program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Today, this ideal is pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and everyday forms of government. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the daily government of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book asks how such a pursuit has come to affect Rwandans' relation to the state and what it may tell us about modern forms of authoritarian rule."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2016)
Subject Citizenship -- Study and teaching -- Rwanda
Citizenship -- Rwanda
Civics -- Study and teaching -- Rwanda
Civics, Rwandan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Citizenship
Citizenship -- Study and teaching
Civics, Rwandan
Civics -- Study and teaching
Rwanda
Genre/Form calendars (documents)
Calendars
Calendars.
Calendriers.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137584229
113758422X