Making Ubumwe: Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity Building Project

Purdekova, Andrea

ISBN 10: 178238832X / ISBN 13: 9781782388326

Published by Berghahn Books, 2015

About this Item

292 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # x-178238832X

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Ubumwe: Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity Building Project
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178238832X
• ISBN 13: 9781782388326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.59 kilograms

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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.

About the Author

Andrea Purdeková is Senior Lecturer in Conflict and Security at the University of Bath. Prior to this she held a Departmental Lectureship in African Politics at the African Studies Centre, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellowship at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.