Twa in Rwanda (Hardcover)

Morag Goodwin

ISBN 10: 1009768549 / ISBN 13: 9781009768542

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2026

About this Item

Hardcover. 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. 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 book shows how power and legal normativity are enacted, refracted and experienced in the everyday life of the Batwa in Rwanda. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twa in Rwanda (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009768549
• ISBN 13: 9781009768542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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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.

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.