Whispering Truth to Power Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda

Name: Whispering Truth to Power Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda
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ISBN: 9780299296742

ISBN-10: 0299296741

ISBN-13: 9780299296742

Edition: 2013

Authors: Susan Thomson

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For 100 days in 1994 genocide engulfed Rwanda. Since then, many in the international community have praised the country's postgenocide government for its efforts to foster national unity and reconciliation by downplaying ethnic differences and promoting "one Rwanda for all Rwandans." Examining how ordinary rural Rwandans experience and view these policies, Whispering Truth to Power challenges the conventional wisdom on postgenocide Rwanda. Susan Thomson finds that many of Rwanda's poorest citizens distrust the local officials charged with implementing the state program and believe that it ignores the deepest problems of the countryside: lack of land, jobs, and a voice in policies…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 11/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Abbreviations


Preface and Acknowledgments: The Story behind the Findings


Introduction: State Power as Lived Experience



Bringing in Peasant Rwandans through Life History Interviewing



The Historical Role of the State in Everyday Life



A Continuum of Violence, 1990-2: Exiles, Refugees, and Returnees



Practices of National Unity and Reconciliation



Everyday Resistance to National Unity and Reconciliation



Everyday Resistance to the Gacaca Process


Conclusion: Explaining Systems of Power through Acts of Everyday Resistance



Dramatis Personae



Socioeconomic Hierarchy in Rwanda



Administrative Units in Rwanda


Glossary


Notes


References


Index