Making Ubumwe: Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project: 34 (Forced Migration, 34) - Hardcover

Purdeková, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178238832X ISBN 13: 9781782388326

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2015

Synopsis

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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Review:

"Against the backdrop of Rwanda's complex post-genocide setting, Purdekova explores the unity-building attempts through which a 'New Rwanda' is being created. The visions and dominant ideology that underpin the national project, along with the strategies being deployed to achieve it, are addressed with rich detail and precision. This ethnographic study also offers a fine account of daily politics as lived by Kigali residents.."Johan Pottier, SOAS, University of London"

"Against the backdrop of Rwanda's complex post-genocide setting, Purdekova explores the unity-building attempts through which a 'New Rwanda' is being created. The visions and dominant ideology that underpin the national project, along with the strategies being deployed to achieve it, are addressed with rich detail and precision. This ethnographic study also offers a fine account of daily politics as lived by Kigali residents." - Johan Pottier, SOAS, University of London

FINALIST FOR THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2016 BETHWELL A. OGOT BOOK PRIZE

"Against the backdrop of Rwanda's complex post-genocide setting, Purdekova explores the unity-building attempts through which a 'New Rwanda' is being created. The visions and dominant ideology that underpin the national project, along with the strategies being deployed to achieve it, are addressed with rich detail and precision. This ethnographic study also offers a fine account of daily politics as lived by Kigali residents." - Johan Pottier, SOAS, University of London

About the Author:

Andrea Purdekova is Departmental Lecturer in African Politics at the African Studies Centre, School of Interdisciplinary and Area Studies, University of Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 178238832X
• ISBN 13: 9781782388326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308