Peaceful Selves - Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda (Hardcover)

This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around “good” personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound dissonance in town residents’ selfhood. While they strive to be agents of change who can catalyze a new era of modern Rwandan nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. In drawing out the contradictions at the heart of self-making and social life in contemporary Rwanda, this book asserts a novel argument about the ordinary lives caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2017
Authors:	Laura Eramian
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-1-78533-711-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78533-711-4
Barcode:	9781785337116

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