Navigating Cultural Memory

Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvDavid Mwambari,Leuven) Mwambari, David (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Navigating Cultural Memory examines how a master narrative of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi evolved into a hegemonic narrative both in Rwanda and globally. Identifying key actors who shaped and responded to the evolution and enforcement of the master narrative in the first two decades after the genocide and civil war ended, it engages with important questions about collective memory, trauma, and power following violent and divisive events. With chapters analyzing interviews the author collected, as well as other secondary sources, Mwambari charts how Rwandans from different backgrounds--who he identifies as Champions, Antagonists, and Fatalists of the master narrative--have responded to this event through language, physical symbols of memory, art, and traditional and new media. Mwambari argues that a relational approach to dignity can help transform polarizing narratives away from sources of competition, exclusion, and silence, and towards healing. Conversations about the politics around the master narrative and about the collective presentation of violent histories are not only important for contemporary politics but the key to Rwanda's present and future peace. By exploring these contradictions in memories between actors in Rwanda and abroad, Navigating Cultural Memory offers crucial insights into the complexities surrounding individual and collective memory in societies recovering from violent conflict, mass atrocities, and genocide.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-18
Mått163 x 237 x 24 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEXPLORATIONS IN NARRATIVE PSYCH SERIES
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190942304
UtmärkelserWinner, 2025 Memory Studies Association First Book Award

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David Mwambari is an Associate Professor at the faculty of social sciences at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven in Belgium and the Principal Investigator for TMSS project funded by European Research Council (ERC). He is a board member at the Oxford Consortium on Human Rights, University of Oxford. He was an assistant professor at Kings College London (UK), United States International University (Kenya) and was a fellow at the University of Cambridge and CODESRIA in Senegal. His research has appeared in international academic journals, including African Affairs, Qualitative Research, Memory Studies, and Africa Development.

Foreword Preface AcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Commemorating the Past and the Evolution of Concepts in Memory Studies Chapter 2: Rwandan Narratives and Rwandan Pasts Chapter 3: Shaping the Emergence and Evolution of the Genocide Master Narrative Chapter 4: Imprinting the Land with the Materials of Memory Chapter 5: Localizing Commemoration and Individual Responses to the Master Narrative Chapter 6: Expressing Memory after Genocide: The Art of Commemoration Chapter 7: The Media, Commemoration, and the Enforcement of the Master Narrative Conclusion: The Malleability of Memory and Reflections on the Future of Knowledge Production on Rwanda and in Memory Studies References

David Mwambari offers a powerful revisionary account of the memory of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. His book works simultaneously on two levels: it illuminates and challenges what he calls the hegemonic master narrative of the genocide memory while offering an account of the plurality of memories of multiple violence in Rwanda's history; and it models how the study of collective remembrance can take inspiration from decolonial methodologies and move beyond its Eurocentric origins. This is an important contribution to a variety of fields, including genocide studies, African studies, and memory studies. Highly recommended!"-Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.

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