Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Glossary

Map I: Rwanda
Map II: The Layout of Nkumba Ingando Camp

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

Bibliography
Index

Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project

Andrea Purdeková

306 pages, 2 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-78238-832-6 Hb Published (October 2015)

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“This is a book that deserves to be widely read. [It] will appeal to both Rwanda and African Studies scholars and is a must-read for graduate students preparing to do ﬁeldwork in Rwanda. Scholars working in development studies, peace and conﬂict studies, comparative politics and cultural anthropology will be rewarded for a careful read.” • Journal of Modern African Studies

“Although the author focuses upon Rwanda’s unity-building project, she places her analysis within a wider social and political reflection. This makes the book a major contribution to the literature on contemporary Rwanda.” • African Affairs

“Against the backdrop of Rwanda’s complex post-genocide setting, Purdeková 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

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.

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.

Series: Volume 34, Forced Migration

Subject: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

Area: Africa

LC: HN795.Z9C7378 2015

BL: DRT ELD.DS.152242

BISAC: POL042000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Political Ideologies/General; POL003000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Civics & Citizenship; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social

BIC: JFF Social issues & processes; JP Politics & government

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Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project

Andrea Purdeková

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Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project

Andrea Purdeková

Series: Volume 34, Forced Migration

Subject: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

Area: Africa