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Whispering Truth to Power : Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda /

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."...

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Autor principal: Thomson, Susan, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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, 1990-2000
  • 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.