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David Mwambari - Navigating Cultural Memory, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien EXPLORATIONS IN NARRATIVE PSYCH SERIES

Navigating Cultural Memory

Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda

Av David Mwambari

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-08-18
  • Mått: 163 x 237 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 590 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: EXPLORATIONS IN NARRATIVE PSYCH SERIES
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780190942304
  • Utmärkelser: Winner, 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.

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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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