Approaches post-genocide governance, citizenship and nation building through a unique lens - the local uses of the concept of ubumwe or unity.
Outlines the productive ambiguity at the root of this concept by tracing its deployments in diverse arenas from rhetoric, office work, street talk to camp, showing in detail how politics and state power interlace with the nation-building project.
Discusses in detail the nature and effects of state reach and state presence in people's everyday lives.
Highlights and explains the centrality of civic education in the post-genocide social transformation project.
Offers the first in-depth look at the ingando camps, their emergence post-genocide, their different types and the objectives they serve, and importantly, an inside look at the space itself and the experience it fosters.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Glossary
Map I: Rwanda
Map II: The Layout of Nkumba Ingando Camp
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Kubaka Ubumwe: Building Unity in a Divided Society
Chapter 2. Settling the Unsettled: The Politics and Policing of Meaning in Rwanda
PART II: THE POLITICAL PROCESS
Chapter 3. The Wording of Power: Legitimisation as Narrative Currency and Political Intimation
Chapter 4. The Presencing Effect: Surveillance and State Reach in Rwanda
Chapter 5. Incorporation, Disconnect: The Embodiments of Power and the Unworking of Contestation
PART III: MAKING 'UBUMWE': THE IMAGERIES, PLANNING AND PERFORMANCES OF 'UNITY' IN RWANDA
Chapter 6. Unity's Multiplicities: Ambiguity at Work
Chapter 7. Performances and Platforms: Activities of Unity and Reconciliation in the Contexts of Power
Chapter 8. Ingando Camps: Nation Building as Consent Building
Chapter 9. Rights of Passage: Liminality and the Reproduction of Power
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 10. The Yeast of Change: Civic Education, Social Transformation and the New Development Corps
Chapter 11. What Kind of Unity? Prospects for Co-existence, Social Justice and Peace
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