Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what...
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Author: Laura Eramian
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Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda by Eramian, Laura

Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

$675.88

Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

$675.88
Author: Laura Eramian
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Laura Eramian
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 09/04/2019
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9781789204933

About the Author

Laura Eramian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her previous publications appeared in the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, Anthropologica, and the International Journal of Conflict and Violence.


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