Peaceful Selves : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda
| Titre | Peaceful Selves : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda |
|---|---|
| Type de publication | Livre |
| Langue principale de la publication | anglais |
| Année de publication | 2017 |
| Auteur | Laura Eramian |
| Nombre de pages | 202 |
| Éditeur | Berghahn Books |
| Ville | New York Oxford |
| Genre | essai - étude |
| Pays d'édition | Etats-Unis Royaume-Uni |
| ISBN (Forme EAN-13) | 9781785337116 |
| Résumé/Présentation | "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." (site de l'éditeur, 02.2018) |
| Référence complète | Eramian, Laura. Peaceful Selves : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2017, 202 p., 3 ill.., bibl., index ? ISBN 978-1-78533-711-6. |
