Making Ubumwe

Andrea Purdeková is Senior Lecturer in Conflict and Security at the University of Bath. Prior to this she held a Departmental Lectureship in African Politics at the African Studies Centre, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellowship at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsGlossaryMap I: RwandaMap II: The Layout of Nkumba Ingando CampPART I: INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Kubaka Ubumwe: Building Unity in a Divided SocietyChapter 2. Settling the Unsettled: The Politics and Policing of Meaning in RwandaPART II: THE POLITICAL PROCESSChapter 3. The Wording of Power: Legitimisation as Narrative Currency and Political IntimationChapter 4. The Presencing Effect: Surveillance and State Reach in RwandaChapter 5. Incorporation, Disconnect: The Embodiments of Power and the Unworking of ContestationPART III: MAKING ‘UBUMWE’: THE IMAGERIES, PLANNING AND PERFORMANCES OF ‘UNITY’ IN RWANDAChapter 6. Unity’s Multiplicities: Ambiguity at WorkChapter 7. Performances and Platforms: Activities of Unity and Reconciliation in the Contexts of PowerChapter 8. Ingando Camps: Nation Building as Consent BuildingChapter 9. Rights of Passage: Liminality and the Reproduction of PowerPART IV: CONCLUSIONSChapter 10. The Yeast of Change: Civic Education, Social Transformation and the New Development CorpsChapter 11. What Kind of Unity? Prospects for Co-existence, Social Justice and PeaceBibliographyIndex

“This is a book that deserves to be widely read. [It] will appeal to both Rwanda and African Studies scholars and is a must-read for graduate students preparing to do fieldwork in Rwanda. Scholars working in development studies, peace and conflict studies, comparative politics and cultural anthropology will be rewarded for a careful read.” • Journal of Modern African Studies“Although the author focuses upon Rwanda’s unity-building project, she places her analysis within a wider social and political reflection. This makes the book a major contribution to the literature on contemporary Rwanda.” • African Affairs“Against the backdrop of Rwanda’s complex post-genocide setting, Purdeková explores the unity-building attempts through which a ‘New Rwanda’ is being created. The visions and dominant ideology that underpin the national project, along with the strategies being deployed to achieve it, are addressed with rich detail and precision. This ethnographic study also offers a fine account of daily politics as lived by Kigali residents.” • Johan Pottier, SOAS, University of London