Politics of Innocence : : Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life / / Simon Turner.
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. Whi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Forced Migration ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Troubled Nature of Innocence
- 2 Histories of Conflict
- 3 The Biopolitics of Innocence
- 4 Camp Life and Moral Decay
- 5 ‘Big Men’ and ‘Liminal Experts’
- 6 Rumour and Politics
- 7 Innocence Lost
- 8 Conclusion
- Postscript: What Happened to the Camp?
- References
- Index