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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Purdeková, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Forced Migration ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)

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 institution...

Table of Contents

• 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