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Twa in Rwanda (Global Law Series) - Softcover

Goodwin, Morag

 
9781009768535: Twa in Rwanda (Global Law Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1009768530 ISBN 13: 9781009768535
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

This book is a contribution to the growing field of global legal ethnography. Through engagement with the global discourses of indigeneity, conservation and development, this empirical study shows how power and legal normativity are enacted and experienced in the everyday life of the Batwa in Rwanda. By exploring how Twa negotiate their position within society, the regulatory power of these global jurisdictional encounters to construct (subjects, communities, normative frameworks), to reframe and to discipline comes into sharper focus. Focusing on agency instead of resistance, on a desire for inclusion rather than difference, this book provides a critical contribution to the scholarship on counter-hegemonic narratives of globalisation. Rwandan Twa are positioning themselves within national and global narratives to demand progress and belonging – not as part of a political movement based on their ethnic distinctness or indigeneity but as Rwandans.

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About the Author

Morag Goodwin is a professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and holds the chair in Global Law and Development. She was PI of a Dutch Research Council (NWO)-funded project researching barriers to inclusion in Rwanda.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2026
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009768530
ISBN 13 
9781009768535
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
234