Politics of innocence : Hutu identity, conflict and camp life /

"Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent dìsciplining mechanisms' of humanitarian agencies and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Turner, Simon, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Series:Studies in forced migration ; v. 30.
Subjects:
Hutu (African people) > Tanzania.
Refugees > Tanzania.
Humanitarian assistance > Tanzania.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Humanitarian assistance.
Hutu (African people)
Refugees.
Identitätsentwicklung
Hutu
Burunder
Flüchtlingslager
Hutu > Tanzania.
Tanzania.
Tansania
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The troubled nature of innocence
  • Histories of conflict
  • The biopolitics of innocence
  • Camp life and moral decay
  • "Big men" and "liminal experts"
  • Rumour and politics
  • Innocence lost
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript : What happened to the camp?

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