Training for Model Citizenship 2016
An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda
Molly Sundberg(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 6. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-349-92831-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides an ethnography of a state-run civic education program based in a local neighborhood in Rwanda. In 2007, the Rwandan government launched a nationwide program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Today, this ideal is pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and everyday forms of government. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the daily government of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book asks how such a pursuit has come to affect Rwandans' relation to the state and what it may tell us about modern forms of authoritarian rule.
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Edition
2016 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
biography
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-92831-6 (9781349928316)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-58422-9
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Molly Sundberg
Training for Model Citizenship
An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda
Book
05/2016
Palgrave MacMillan
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Person
Molly Sundberg is Senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden. She previously worked for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in Stockholm and Rwanda.
Content
1. Introduction 2. Itorero Today and Yesterday: Making and Remaking Rwanda 3. Rwanda and Rwandans in the Post-Genocide Political Imaginary 4. Local Voices on Rwanda and Rwandans 5. Model Citizens in the Making: Government as Designed 6. "Manufacturing" Model Citizens: Governing in Everyday Encounters 7. Securing Rwanda: A Fearful Civic Duty 8. Realizing the Development Vision 2020 9. Searching for the Prerequisites of Acceptance