Training for Model Citizenship: An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda

This thesis addresses how government in Rwanda plays out in practice and how it affects lived experiences of state power and citizenship. Two decades after the genocide, Rwanda has come to be associated both with security, development, and stability, on the one hand, and with state repression and c...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropodev,
Autor Principal: Sundberg, Molly
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: Anthropologie & développement 2016
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:This thesis addresses how government in Rwanda plays out in practice and how it affects lived experiences of state power and citizenship. Two decades after the genocide, Rwanda has come to be associated both with security, development, and stability, on the one hand, and with state repression and coercion, on the other. In 2007, a nationwide programme was launched to teach all Rwandans about the politically dominant vision of the model Rwandan citizen – an ideal that is today pursued through...