Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 9801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Turner |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5521-8141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1912 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement
This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third‐term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional deadlines became timespace devices— instruments of temporal power that condensed speculations about danger, susp…
Strangers into Kin: Affinity, Deservingness and Gratitude in ‘Everyday Humanitarianism’ between Locals and Refugees/Migrants in Kigoma, Tanzania
This article explores ‘everyday humanitarianism’, as evidenced by the efforts of local Tanzanians in the Kigoma region to support refugees and irregular migrants. Over the years, Kigoma has become a refuge for many Burundians and Congolese fleeing conflict and violence. While some have official refugee status, others lack proper documentation, making their lives precarious. Due to political tensions regarding refugees and migrants, Tanzanians may…
Precarious Care across Migrant Generations in Tanzania
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article is concerned with how undocumented refugees and migrants use invisibility strategies to navigate a hostile host environment in Western Tanzania. This article explores how the shifts in Tanzania’s refugee policy have affected different generations of refugees differently, and how older cohorts assist newer cohorts. This article argues that the challenges of migration are productive of ‘affective circui…
Post-Script: Ruptures in Time and Space
We all know that conflict creates displacement. Life becomes untenable in different ways, and people are forced to move; the majority ending up as internally displaced people within the nation-state, while others wind up in refugee camps in neighboring countries, and a very few seek asylum in faraway places. The recent war in Ukraine and the conflict in Syria since 2011 seemingly fit into this classical conception of why and how people are displa…
Times of Violence: The Shifting Temporalities of Long-Term Ethnographic Engagement with Burundi
Over the past two decades, I have done ethnographic fieldwork amongst Burundians in Burundi and in exile, exploring the different ways they deal with the violence that the country has witnessed over the decades. In this article I follow my tracks back and forth and in and out of the country, reflecting on the advantages and challenges of long-term engagement. At a conceptual level, I propose that while violence is indeed lodged in a social contex…
Pursuing futures through children: Crisis, social reproduction, and transformation in Burundi’s transnational families
Based on multisited fieldwork in Kigali, Rwanda, Belgium, and the Netherlands following the political crisis in Burundi in 2015, we explore decisions and plans for the future among Burundians in exile. In this way, we contribute to research about future making and social reproduction in families in a transnational social field affected by crisis. Adding to the literature, we show the specific effects of crisis on transnational families’ practices…
Reticent Digital Diasporas in Times of Crisis: The Shifting Emotion Work of the Burundian Diaspora
Based on fieldwork amongst Burundians in Rwanda, the Netherlands and Belgium, this article explores how information circulates transnationally in times of political and violent crisis and how ordinary members of the diaspora seek to manage these flows of information. Our main argument is that conflict in the homeland creates a massive flow of information across various digital platforms and that while members of the diaspora eagerly take part in …
Transitions at the Journal of Refugee Studies
Improving Black Students' College and Career Readiness through Literacy Instruction: A Freirean-Inspired Approach for K-8 Classrooms
Hope against hope: Changing emotions in the Burundian crisis
Through the lens of Burundians who have been displaced by the recent crisis in Burundi and their anticipations of possible futures for themselves and their country, expressed in the emotions of hope, anxiety, and despair, this article explores the shift from a situation characterized by upheaval towards the crystallization of authoritarian rule in Burundi. Drawing on ethnographic research amongst Burundian refugees in Rwanda, I examine how these …
Introduction: On Stuckness and Sites of Confinement
This Introduction to the special issue develops a theoretical argument around the interrelations of space and time in sites of confinement by exploring the relationships between ghettos, camps, places of detention, prisons and the like with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed and who are doing their utmost to cope or escape. We explore how life is lived in and across these sites of …
Winning Life' and the Discipline of Death at Iwawa Island
This article analyses Iwawa, a rehabilitation centre for 'delinquent' young men in Rwanda. Like prisons, detention centres and refugee camps elsewhere, Iwawa is both a place of nurture and abandonment; of improving life and disallowing it. We argue that in order to grasp these tensions, we might pay attention to the role of death in disciplining those who are confined. A common way for these young men to address their experience was to say that t…
Responding to Purdeková
Corruption Narratives and the Power of Concealment: The Case of Burundi's Civil War
This chapter draws on fieldwork carried out between 1997 and 2005 among Burundians in Burundi itself, and in Tanzania, Kenya, Belgium, and Denmark, where they had moved in order to escape the civil war in their country. It argues that the corruption narratives seek to unravel power by trying to unveil hidden connections and causalities. The chapter explains the success of some politicians and the misfortune of others, relying on a perception of p…
Staying out of Place
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Burundian refugees living clandestinely in Nairobi and living in a refugee camp in Tanzania, the article argues that displacement can be about staying out of place in order to find a place in the world in the future. I suggest that the term displacement describes this sense of not only being out of place but also being en route to a future. Burundians in the camp and the city are doing their best to remain ou…
What Is a Refugee Camp? Explorations of the Limits and Effects of the Camp
On a global scale, millions of refugees are contained in camps of one sort or another. This special issue and this introductory article explore what characterizes a camp and how camps affect the lives of those who are placed in them. It argues that the camp is an exceptional space that is put in place to deal with populations that disturb the national order of things. While being exceptional, the camp does not, however, produce bare life in an Ag…
Driven Out
Making Good Citizens from Bad Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda
This contribution explores the attempts by international humanitarian agencies and the post-genocide Rwandan state respectively to deal with exceptionality created by the genocide and return to normality. It does so by comparing two kinds of camps that deal with exceptional life: the refugee camps for Hutu who fled after the genocide and the Rwandan government'singandore-education camps. While there are resemblances between the exceptional space …
Staging the Rwandan Diaspora: The Politics of Performance
This article explores how the Rwandan state ‘stages’ its diaspora as agents of change. I argue that ‘staging’ – in the sense of creating a specific, positive image – is an important aspect of the present government’s effort to create a new Rwanda of national unity and reconciliation. Staging the diaspora as agents of change is therefore a means to deal with this ambiguous perception of the diaspora and cultivate only its positive sides, and becom…
Introduction: Agents of Change? Staging and Governing Diasporas and the African State
During the last decade, African diasporas have emerged as agents of change in international development thinking. Diasporas are being courted by donors, sending states, and NGOs for their contributions to development in their countries of origin; praised for their remittances, investments and knowledge transfer. This Introduction seeks to scrutinise critically these processes, examining issues of governance and categorisation in relation to Afric…
Competition and public service broadcasting: Stimulating Creativity or Servicing Capital
In UK public service broadcasting, recent regulatory change has increased the role of the private sector in television production, culminating in the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) introduction of ‘creative competition’ between in-house and independent television producers. Using the concept of ‘cognitive variety’, we focus on the increasing role of the independent sector as a source of creativity in the delivery of programming for the …
Child Migration in Africa
Journal Article Child Migration in Africa Get access Child Migration in Africa, by Iman Hashim and Dorte Thorsen. Uppsala and London: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet and Zed Books, 2011. 160 pp. £21.99 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 84813 456 0. Simon Turner Simon Turner Danish Institute for International Studies [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 110, Issue 441, October 2011, Pages 666…
Politics of Innocence: Hutu identity, conflict, and camp life
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question of victimhood among Burundian Hutu is increasingly challenged, foll…
Suspended Spaces–Contesting Sovereignties in a Refugee Camp
These Young Men Show No Respect for Local Customs'-Globalisation and Islamic Revival in Zanzibar
Like elsewhere in Africa, local forms of Islam are being challenged by a number of new reformist and revivalist forms of Islam, influenced to some degree by a global Islamic revival but shaped by particular local histories and politics. This has caused some friction, especially as the regime in place seeks to manipulate these tensions for political benefit. Central to this struggle are the young men who have studied Islam abroad and who challenge…
What Is a Refugee Camp? Explorations of the Limits and Effects of the Camp
On a global scale, millions of refugees are contained in camps of one sort or another. This special issue and this introductory article explore what characterizes a camp and how camps affect the lives of those who are placed in them. It argues that the camp is an exceptional space that is put in place to deal with populations that disturb the national order of things. While being exceptional, the camp does not, however, produce bare life in an Ag…
Introduction: On Stuckness and Sites of Confinement
This Introduction to the special issue develops a theoretical argument around the interrelations of space and time in sites of confinement by exploring the relationships between ghettos, camps, places of detention, prisons and the like with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed and who are doing their utmost to cope or escape. We explore how life is lived in and across these sites of …
Staging the Rwandan Diaspora: The Politics of Performance
This article explores how the Rwandan state ‘stages’ its diaspora as agents of change. I argue that ‘staging’ – in the sense of creating a specific, positive image – is an important aspect of the present government’s effort to create a new Rwanda of national unity and reconciliation. Staging the diaspora as agents of change is therefore a means to deal with this ambiguous perception of the diaspora and cultivate only its positive sides, and becom…
Introduction: Agents of Change? Staging and Governing Diasporas and the African State
During the last decade, African diasporas have emerged as agents of change in international development thinking. Diasporas are being courted by donors, sending states, and NGOs for their contributions to development in their countries of origin; praised for their remittances, investments and knowledge transfer. This Introduction seeks to scrutinise critically these processes, examining issues of governance and categorisation in relation to Afric…
The waxing and waning of the political field in Burundi and its diaspora
This paper argues that there is a mutual relationship between diaspora politics and political field inside Burundi, effectively constituting a transnational political field, and explores how this field expands and shrinks over time. The recent ending of the conflict in Burundi has meant that the point of gravity of the political field has shifted back to the territory of the nation-state. Being constituted around loss, exodus and exclusion, diasp…
Under the gaze of the 'big nations: Refugees, rumours and the international community in Tanzania
In most academic literature refugees are portrayed either as those who lack what national citizens have or as a threat to the national order of things. This article explores the effects of being excluded in such a way, and argues that Burundian refugees in a camp in northwest Tanzania find themselves in an ambiguous position, being excluded from the national order of things — secluded in the Tanzanian bush — while simultaneously being subject to …
Cyberwars of Words: Expressing the Unspeakable in Burundi's Diaspora
As Burundi has moved from ethnic conflict and political exclusion towards peace, reconciliation and democracy, the role of the diaspora has changed as well. Previously, Hutu exiles saw it as their duty to provide uncensored information on the conflict and to fight for the right to express a multitude of opinions. By exploring changes in Burundian websites, the article shows how some Burundian exiles have recently embraced a position of nation-bui…
These Young Men Show No Respect for Local Customs'-Globalisation and Islamic Revival in Zanzibar
Like elsewhere in Africa, local forms of Islam are being challenged by a number of new reformist and revivalist forms of Islam, influenced to some degree by a global Islamic revival but shaped by particular local histories and politics. This has caused some friction, especially as the regime in place seeks to manipulate these tensions for political benefit. Central to this struggle are the young men who have studied Islam abroad and who challenge…
The Tutsi are Afraid we will Discover their Secrets’—On Secrecy and Sovereign Power in Burundi
By exploring the links between the notion of public secrets and popular imaginaries of sovereign power in Burundi, this article demonstrates the shortcomings of the pervasive Foucauldian perception of power as mere relations. Through conspiracy theories about the secret machinations of power, people in Burundi attempt to make sense of domination and sovereignty and to locate the evasive kernel of power. They try to pinpoint the sovereign, assumin…
Staying out of Place
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Burundian refugees living clandestinely in Nairobi and living in a refugee camp in Tanzania, the article argues that displacement can be about staying out of place in order to find a place in the world in the future. I suggest that the term displacement describes this sense of not only being out of place but also being en route to a future. Burundians in the camp and the city are doing their best to remain ou…
Hope against hope: Changing emotions in the Burundian crisis
Through the lens of Burundians who have been displaced by the recent crisis in Burundi and their anticipations of possible futures for themselves and their country, expressed in the emotions of hope, anxiety, and despair, this article explores the shift from a situation characterized by upheaval towards the crystallization of authoritarian rule in Burundi. Drawing on ethnographic research amongst Burundian refugees in Rwanda, I examine how these …
The Precarious Position of Politics in Popular Imagination: The Burundian Case
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Burundians in exile (Tanzania, Kenya, Belgium and Denmark) and at home, this article explores the perception and position of politics in popular imagination. It argues that politics is perceived ambiguously. On the one hand, politics is seen to corrupt those involved – economically and not least morally. On the other hand, pure politics is perceived as untainted by moral corruption. The popular critique of po…
An Interview with Edith Turner
Introduction: The following interview is taken from a much longer life history conducted over the course of several months in 1997 as a project sponsored in part by the Historical Archives Program of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The original motivation for that project was to explore the life and writing of Edith Turner, her marriage to Victor Turner, and how the dynamics of gender and marriage affect the production of…
Negotiating Authority between UNHCR and 'The People
Refugee camps are exceptional places that are left to the benevolent governing of international humanitarian agencies, and offer unique opportunities to explore the making and un-making of public authority. This article examines how certain groups of young men in a refugee camp in Tanzania manage to establish public authority by relating to ideas of a Burundian moral order, while at the same time relating to the ‘development-speak’ of internation…
Representing the Past in Exile: The Politics of National History among Burundian Refugees
Life in a refugee camp often brings about the need for explanations among its inhabitants, and historical narratives attempt to supply the answers. But these narratives change over time and several narratives can exist in the same refugee camp simultaneously. This paper argues that the production of historical narratives is closely related to the dominant political ideologies in the camps. It argues that in order to undersltand the changes in rep…
Making Good Citizens from Bad Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda
This contribution explores the attempts by international humanitarian agencies and the post-genocide Rwandan state respectively to deal with exceptionality created by the genocide and return to normality. It does so by comparing two kinds of camps that deal with exceptional life: the refugee camps for Hutu who fled after the genocide and the Rwandan government'singandore-education camps. While there are resemblances between the exceptional space …
Studying the Tensions of Transnational Engagement: From the Nuclear Family to the World-Wide Web
The aim of this special issue of JEMS is to explore the inherent contradictions and tensions of transnational engagement and reveal how these are played out at different levels, intersecting with other social markers based on gender, class, ethnicity, etc. While transnational engagements span territories and transcend spatial fixation, they might also provide stabilised identities for those involved, as diasporic imaginaries temporarily ‘fix’ sub…
Winning Life' and the Discipline of Death at Iwawa Island
This article analyses Iwawa, a rehabilitation centre for 'delinquent' young men in Rwanda. Like prisons, detention centres and refugee camps elsewhere, Iwawa is both a place of nurture and abandonment; of improving life and disallowing it. We argue that in order to grasp these tensions, we might pay attention to the role of death in disciplining those who are confined. A common way for these young men to address their experience was to say that t…
Driven Out
Competition and public service broadcasting: Stimulating Creativity or Servicing Capital
In UK public service broadcasting, recent regulatory change has increased the role of the private sector in television production, culminating in the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) introduction of ‘creative competition’ between in-house and independent television producers. Using the concept of ‘cognitive variety’, we focus on the increasing role of the independent sector as a source of creativity in the delivery of programming for the …
Pursuing futures through children: Crisis, social reproduction, and transformation in Burundi’s transnational families
Based on multisited fieldwork in Kigali, Rwanda, Belgium, and the Netherlands following the political crisis in Burundi in 2015, we explore decisions and plans for the future among Burundians in exile. In this way, we contribute to research about future making and social reproduction in families in a transnational social field affected by crisis. Adding to the literature, we show the specific effects of crisis on transnational families’ practices…
Reticent Digital Diasporas in Times of Crisis: The Shifting Emotion Work of the Burundian Diaspora
Based on fieldwork amongst Burundians in Rwanda, the Netherlands and Belgium, this article explores how information circulates transnationally in times of political and violent crisis and how ordinary members of the diaspora seek to manage these flows of information. Our main argument is that conflict in the homeland creates a massive flow of information across various digital platforms and that while members of the diaspora eagerly take part in …
Improving Black Students' College and Career Readiness through Literacy Instruction: A Freirean-Inspired Approach for K-8 Classrooms
Wheat and Its Cultivation
The Gorge of the Arun: Discussion
Sociology Responds to Facism
Representing the Past in Exile: The Politics of National History among Burundian Refugees
Life in a refugee camp often brings about the need for explanations among its inhabitants, and historical narratives attempt to supply the answers. But these narratives change over time and several narratives can exist in the same refugee camp simultaneously. This paper argues that the production of historical narratives is closely related to the dominant political ideologies in the camps. It argues that in order to undersltand the changes in rep…
An Interview with Edith Turner
Introduction: The following interview is taken from a much longer life history conducted over the course of several months in 1997 as a project sponsored in part by the Historical Archives Program of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The original motivation for that project was to explore the life and writing of Edith Turner, her marriage to Victor Turner, and how the dynamics of gender and marriage affect the production of…
Dans l'œil du cyclone: Les réfugiés, l'aide et la communauté internationale en Tanzanie
Cet article défend l'idée que l'élaboration d'une citoyenneté dans les camps transcende l'État-nation par sa référence à la communauté internationale. La gestion des déplacements forcés de population « fabrique » en fait du réfugié afin de ne pas interférer avec l'« ordre national des choses ». Dans les camps, les réfugiés sont exclus de l'État-nation et exercent un contrôle restreint sur leur propre vie, mais ils voient en même temps leur existe…
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Den gode samaritaner og den gode flygtning - forestillinger om køn i humanitær diskurs og praksis
I humanitær diskurs og praksis må en flygtning være et uskyldigt og hjælpeløst offer for at kunne retfærdiggøre hjælpeindsatsen. Sådanne forestillinger er stærkt kønnede og kommer til udtryk i daglige praksisser i flygtningelejre. Men hvad gør man, når flygtningene ikke vil opføre sig som ofre
Under the gaze of the 'big nations: Refugees, rumours and the international community in Tanzania
In most academic literature refugees are portrayed either as those who lack what national citizens have or as a threat to the national order of things. This article explores the effects of being excluded in such a way, and argues that Burundian refugees in a camp in northwest Tanzania find themselves in an ambiguous position, being excluded from the national order of things — secluded in the Tanzanian bush — while simultaneously being subject to …
The Tutsi are Afraid we will Discover their Secrets’—On Secrecy and Sovereign Power in Burundi
By exploring the links between the notion of public secrets and popular imaginaries of sovereign power in Burundi, this article demonstrates the shortcomings of the pervasive Foucauldian perception of power as mere relations. Through conspiracy theories about the secret machinations of power, people in Burundi attempt to make sense of domination and sovereignty and to locate the evasive kernel of power. They try to pinpoint the sovereign, assumin…
Negotiating Authority between UNHCR and 'The People
Refugee camps are exceptional places that are left to the benevolent governing of international humanitarian agencies, and offer unique opportunities to explore the making and un-making of public authority. This article examines how certain groups of young men in a refugee camp in Tanzania manage to establish public authority by relating to ideas of a Burundian moral order, while at the same time relating to the ‘development-speak’ of internation…
The Precarious Position of Politics in Popular Imagination: The Burundian Case
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Burundians in exile (Tanzania, Kenya, Belgium and Denmark) and at home, this article explores the perception and position of politics in popular imagination. It argues that politics is perceived ambiguously. On the one hand, politics is seen to corrupt those involved – economically and not least morally. On the other hand, pure politics is perceived as untainted by moral corruption. The popular critique of po…
Studying the Tensions of Transnational Engagement: From the Nuclear Family to the World-Wide Web
The aim of this special issue of JEMS is to explore the inherent contradictions and tensions of transnational engagement and reveal how these are played out at different levels, intersecting with other social markers based on gender, class, ethnicity, etc. While transnational engagements span territories and transcend spatial fixation, they might also provide stabilised identities for those involved, as diasporic imaginaries temporarily ‘fix’ sub…
Cyberwars of Words: Expressing the Unspeakable in Burundi's Diaspora
As Burundi has moved from ethnic conflict and political exclusion towards peace, reconciliation and democracy, the role of the diaspora has changed as well. Previously, Hutu exiles saw it as their duty to provide uncensored information on the conflict and to fight for the right to express a multitude of opinions. By exploring changes in Burundian websites, the article shows how some Burundian exiles have recently embraced a position of nation-bui…
The waxing and waning of the political field in Burundi and its diaspora
This paper argues that there is a mutual relationship between diaspora politics and political field inside Burundi, effectively constituting a transnational political field, and explores how this field expands and shrinks over time. The recent ending of the conflict in Burundi has meant that the point of gravity of the political field has shifted back to the territory of the nation-state. Being constituted around loss, exodus and exclusion, diasp…
Suspended Spaces–Contesting Sovereignties in a Refugee Camp
These Young Men Show No Respect for Local Customs'-Globalisation and Islamic Revival in Zanzibar
Like elsewhere in Africa, local forms of Islam are being challenged by a number of new reformist and revivalist forms of Islam, influenced to some degree by a global Islamic revival but shaped by particular local histories and politics. This has caused some friction, especially as the regime in place seeks to manipulate these tensions for political benefit. Central to this struggle are the young men who have studied Islam abroad and who challenge…
Two Views on Burundi Today
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Politics of Innocence: Hutu identity, conflict, and camp life
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question of victimhood among Burundian Hutu is increasingly challenged, foll…
Child Migration in Africa
Journal Article Child Migration in Africa Get access Child Migration in Africa, by Iman Hashim and Dorte Thorsen. Uppsala and London: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet and Zed Books, 2011. 160 pp. £21.99 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 84813 456 0. Simon Turner Simon Turner Danish Institute for International Studies [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 110, Issue 441, October 2011, Pages 666…
Competition and public service broadcasting: Stimulating Creativity or Servicing Capital
In UK public service broadcasting, recent regulatory change has increased the role of the private sector in television production, culminating in the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) introduction of ‘creative competition’ between in-house and independent television producers. Using the concept of ‘cognitive variety’, we focus on the increasing role of the independent sector as a source of creativity in the delivery of programming for the …
Staging the Rwandan Diaspora: The Politics of Performance
This article explores how the Rwandan state ‘stages’ its diaspora as agents of change. I argue that ‘staging’ – in the sense of creating a specific, positive image – is an important aspect of the present government’s effort to create a new Rwanda of national unity and reconciliation. Staging the diaspora as agents of change is therefore a means to deal with this ambiguous perception of the diaspora and cultivate only its positive sides, and becom…
Introduction: Agents of Change? Staging and Governing Diasporas and the African State
During the last decade, African diasporas have emerged as agents of change in international development thinking. Diasporas are being courted by donors, sending states, and NGOs for their contributions to development in their countries of origin; praised for their remittances, investments and knowledge transfer. This Introduction seeks to scrutinise critically these processes, examining issues of governance and categorisation in relation to Afric…
Making Good Citizens from Bad Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda
This contribution explores the attempts by international humanitarian agencies and the post-genocide Rwandan state respectively to deal with exceptionality created by the genocide and return to normality. It does so by comparing two kinds of camps that deal with exceptional life: the refugee camps for Hutu who fled after the genocide and the Rwandan government'singandore-education camps. While there are resemblances between the exceptional space …
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