| Description |
1 online resource (202 pages) |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations Introduction: Person, Nation, and Violence in Rwanda Chapter 1. The Post-Conflict Moment in Butare and its Antecedents; Chapter 2. Ethnicity's Specter in Post-Ethnic Times; Chapter 3. Living with Absence; Chapter 4. Creativity, Positive Thinking, and Their Perils; Chapter 5. Making Peace by Remaking Persons Conclusion: The Post-conflict, the Postcolonial, and Peaceful Selves Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Butare (Rwanda)-Social conditions-21st century
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Collective memory-Rwanda
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National characteristics, Rwandan.
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Reconciliation
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Rwanda-History-Civil War, 1994-Peace
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Self-Social aspects-Rwanda-Butare
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Rwandans.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace.
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Rwandans.
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National characteristics, Rwandan.
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Reconciliation.
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Bürgerkrieg.
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Gewaltlosigkeit.
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Individuum.
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Konflikt.
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Politisches Verhalten.
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Sozialverhalten.
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Stadt.
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Völkermord.
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Auswirkung.
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Lebensstil.
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Gewalttätigkeit.
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Wirkung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785337123 |
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1785337122 |
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