Training for Model Citizenship (eBook)

An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda

Molly Sundberg (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
X, 276 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-58422-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides an ethnography of a state-run civic education program based in a local neighborhood in Rwanda. In 2007, the Rwandan government launched a nationwide program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Today, this ideal is pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and everyday forms of government. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the daily government of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book asks how such a pursuit has come to affect Rwandans' relation to the state and what it may tell us about modern forms of authoritarian rule. 

Molly Sundberg is Senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden. She previously worked for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in Stockholm and Rwanda.

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This book explores the state in post-genocide Rwanda through an ethnography of a state-run civic education program and everyday forms of government. In 2007, the Rwandan government introduced a nationwide civic education program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Since then, this ideal has been pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and daily government practices. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the day-to-day administration of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book investigates how such a pursuit has come to affect Rwandans' relation to the state and what it may tell us about modern forms of authoritarian rule.

Autor

Molly Sundberg is Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden. She previously worked for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in Stockholm and Rwanda.

Inhalt

1. Introduction2. Itorero Today and Yesterday: Making and Remaking Rwanda3. Rwanda and Rwandans in the Post-Genocide Political Imaginary4. Local Voices on Rwanda and Rwandans5. Model Citizens in the Making: Government as Designed6. “Manufacturing” Model Citizens: Governing in Everyday Encounters7. Securing Rwanda: A Fearful Civic Duty8. Realizing the Development Vision 20209. Searching for the Prerequisites of Acceptance

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: X, 276 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Authoritarian Rule • Citizenship • Civic education • Development • Government • Kigali • post-conflict • Rwanda
• ISBN-10: 1-137-58422-X / 113758422X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-58422-9 / 9781137584229