Whispering truth to power : everyday resistance to reconciliation in postgenocide Rwanda / Susan Thomson.

Thomson, Susan M.
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013.
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Part of the series Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture;Africa and the diaspora.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-235) and index.
  • Introduction : state power as lived experience — Bringing in peasant Rwandans through life history interviewing — The historical role of the state in everyday life — A continuum of violence, 1990-2000 — Practices of national unity and reconciliation — Everyday resistance to national unity and reconciliation — Everyday resistance to the Gacaca process — Conclusion : explaining systems of power through acts of everyday resistance.

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Requested by Underhill, J

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