Kristin Doughty
Biographic Data
| ID | 82673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Doughty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Doughty |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGHTY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8801-1315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Prison Towns and Abolitionist Solidarity: A Review of Prison Town, Life Beside Bars, and Healing Movements
Ebola and Covid: Further questions
“I really wanna put eyes on these guys”: Caregiving in prisons, pandemic, and protest
In this article we use our collaborative work with a support group for families of incarcerated people in upstate New York—including participant observation, interviews and focus groups from 2019‐2020—to highlight how COVID‐19 exacerbated challenges they already faced in caring for kin across walls. We focus specifically during the summer of 2020 when New York state prison visitation was closed to prevent the spread of COVID, showing how families…
On Prison Towns and Ethnographic Entanglements
Methane Extraction on Lake Kivu: Green Extractive Humanitarianism
In 2016, Rwanda began extracting methane gas from Lake Kivu, an innovative project designed to reduce the risk of a deadly spontaneous gas release while providing clean and renewable power to an energy-strapped region. Based on qualitative research in Rwanda from 2016 to 2019, Doughty, Uwizeye, and Uwimana use the Kivu methane extraction project to ask, How do we balance urgent electrification needs with responsible energy policies that respond t…
Carceral Repair
This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2016-2019, examines methane extraction operations in Lake Kivu on the Rwanda/DRC border as a lens into understanding how energy futures in Africa are imagined and enacted within national projects of post-war reconstruction. In 2005, scientists suggested that the lake's dissolved methane risked oversaturation within the century. This spurred state-backed projects to simultaneously prevent a natural …
Cultural Anthropology in 2018: Captivity and Its Unruly Failures
This essay reviews articles produced in the four key American Anthropological Association cultural anthropology journals throughout 2018, and identifies the ways cultural anthropologists took up Haraway's invitation to "stay with the trouble" through implicit and explicit engagement with logics of captivity and its failures. This work suggests ongoing attention to long-standing themes in cultural anthropology-tensions between capture and escape, …
Language and International Criminal Justice in Africa: Interpretation at the ICTR
In this article, I examine the naturalized politics of language in international criminal justice in Africa, based on research conducted during three visits to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) between 2005 and 2008. Though existing research has demonstrated the role of interpretation as meaningful, not technical, in domestic bilingual courts and other non-African international criminal tribunals, it remains underexamined in c…
Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice After Genocide
Rwanda’s unprecedented use of grassroots courts (inkiko gacaca) to try suspects of the 1994 genocide has received widespread attention over the past decade, from academics and legal practitioners t
Remediation in Rwanda: Grassroots Legal Forums
Kristin Conner Doughty examines how Rwandans navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994 genocide
Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel. Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Much has been made of Rwanda's progressive gender policies since the 1994 genocide, including the constitutionally mandated minimum of 30 percent of women in government decision-making bodies, the
Warning Signs of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective by E. N. Anderson and Barbara A. Anderson
Law and the architecture of social repair: Gacacadays in post-genocide Rwanda
In this article, I examine post-genocide Rwanda'sgacacaprocess, in which genocide suspects were tried among their neighbours before locally elected judges. I suggest two limitations in how anthropologists have typically studied post-conflict legal institutions. Measuring the cultural relevance of law obscures contemporary imbrications of African custom and universal legal principles, and distracts from analysis of the politicized uses of culture.…
Our Goal Is Not to Punish but to Reconcile: Mediation in Postgenocide Rwanda
In this article, I explore what is at stake in embedding mediation efforts in legal forums backed by force across a wide range of disputes in postgenocide Rwanda as well as what is at stake in participants' contestation over the terms of unity. Considering genocide courts, mediation committees, and a legal aid clinic in one analytic frame underscores continuities in both their top-down social engineering goals and people's experience of the media…
Legal responses to violent conflict in Rwanda and Burundi
Experiences of law and reconciliation after genocide
Law and the architecture of social repair: Gacacadays in post-genocide Rwanda
In this article, I examine post-genocide Rwanda'sgacacaprocess, in which genocide suspects were tried among their neighbours before locally elected judges. I suggest two limitations in how anthropologists have typically studied post-conflict legal institutions. Measuring the cultural relevance of law obscures contemporary imbrications of African custom and universal legal principles, and distracts from analysis of the politicized uses of culture.…
Cultural Anthropology in 2018: Captivity and Its Unruly Failures
This essay reviews articles produced in the four key American Anthropological Association cultural anthropology journals throughout 2018, and identifies the ways cultural anthropologists took up Haraway's invitation to "stay with the trouble" through implicit and explicit engagement with logics of captivity and its failures. This work suggests ongoing attention to long-standing themes in cultural anthropology-tensions between capture and escape, …
Our Goal Is Not to Punish but to Reconcile: Mediation in Postgenocide Rwanda
In this article, I explore what is at stake in embedding mediation efforts in legal forums backed by force across a wide range of disputes in postgenocide Rwanda as well as what is at stake in participants' contestation over the terms of unity. Considering genocide courts, mediation committees, and a legal aid clinic in one analytic frame underscores continuities in both their top-down social engineering goals and people's experience of the media…
Carceral Repair
This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2016-2019, examines methane extraction operations in Lake Kivu on the Rwanda/DRC border as a lens into understanding how energy futures in Africa are imagined and enacted within national projects of post-war reconstruction. In 2005, scientists suggested that the lake's dissolved methane risked oversaturation within the century. This spurred state-backed projects to simultaneously prevent a natural …
On Prison Towns and Ethnographic Entanglements
Experiences of law and reconciliation after genocide
Legal responses to violent conflict in Rwanda and Burundi
Our Goal Is Not to Punish but to Reconcile: Mediation in Postgenocide Rwanda
In this article, I explore what is at stake in embedding mediation efforts in legal forums backed by force across a wide range of disputes in postgenocide Rwanda as well as what is at stake in participants' contestation over the terms of unity. Considering genocide courts, mediation committees, and a legal aid clinic in one analytic frame underscores continuities in both their top-down social engineering goals and people's experience of the media…
Warning Signs of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective by E. N. Anderson and Barbara A. Anderson
Law and the architecture of social repair: Gacacadays in post-genocide Rwanda
In this article, I examine post-genocide Rwanda'sgacacaprocess, in which genocide suspects were tried among their neighbours before locally elected judges. I suggest two limitations in how anthropologists have typically studied post-conflict legal institutions. Measuring the cultural relevance of law obscures contemporary imbrications of African custom and universal legal principles, and distracts from analysis of the politicized uses of culture.…
Remediation in Rwanda: Grassroots Legal Forums
Kristin Conner Doughty examines how Rwandans navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994 genocide
Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel. Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Much has been made of Rwanda's progressive gender policies since the 1994 genocide, including the constitutionally mandated minimum of 30 percent of women in government decision-making bodies, the
Language and International Criminal Justice in Africa: Interpretation at the ICTR
In this article, I examine the naturalized politics of language in international criminal justice in Africa, based on research conducted during three visits to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) between 2005 and 2008. Though existing research has demonstrated the role of interpretation as meaningful, not technical, in domestic bilingual courts and other non-African international criminal tribunals, it remains underexamined in c…
Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice After Genocide
Rwanda’s unprecedented use of grassroots courts (inkiko gacaca) to try suspects of the 1994 genocide has received widespread attention over the past decade, from academics and legal practitioners t
Cultural Anthropology in 2018: Captivity and Its Unruly Failures
This essay reviews articles produced in the four key American Anthropological Association cultural anthropology journals throughout 2018, and identifies the ways cultural anthropologists took up Haraway's invitation to "stay with the trouble" through implicit and explicit engagement with logics of captivity and its failures. This work suggests ongoing attention to long-standing themes in cultural anthropology-tensions between capture and escape, …
Carceral Repair
This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2016-2019, examines methane extraction operations in Lake Kivu on the Rwanda/DRC border as a lens into understanding how energy futures in Africa are imagined and enacted within national projects of post-war reconstruction. In 2005, scientists suggested that the lake's dissolved methane risked oversaturation within the century. This spurred state-backed projects to simultaneously prevent a natural …
Methane Extraction on Lake Kivu: Green Extractive Humanitarianism
In 2016, Rwanda began extracting methane gas from Lake Kivu, an innovative project designed to reduce the risk of a deadly spontaneous gas release while providing clean and renewable power to an energy-strapped region. Based on qualitative research in Rwanda from 2016 to 2019, Doughty, Uwizeye, and Uwimana use the Kivu methane extraction project to ask, How do we balance urgent electrification needs with responsible energy policies that respond t…
On Prison Towns and Ethnographic Entanglements
“I really wanna put eyes on these guys”: Caregiving in prisons, pandemic, and protest
In this article we use our collaborative work with a support group for families of incarcerated people in upstate New York—including participant observation, interviews and focus groups from 2019‐2020—to highlight how COVID‐19 exacerbated challenges they already faced in caring for kin across walls. We focus specifically during the summer of 2020 when New York state prison visitation was closed to prevent the spread of COVID, showing how families…
Prison Towns and Abolitionist Solidarity: A Review of Prison Town, Life Beside Bars, and Healing Movements
Ebola and Covid: Further questions
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Genocide (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (3 works)