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This book explores the state in post-genocide Rwanda through an ethnography of a state-run civic education program and everyday forms of government.
In 2007, the Rwandan government introduced a nationwide civic education program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Since then, this ideal has been pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and daily government practices. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the day-to-day administration of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book investigates 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.
In 2007, the Rwandan government introduced a nationwide civic education program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Since then, this ideal has been pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and daily government practices. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the day-to-day administration of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book investigates 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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“Sundberg's contribution to development studies is deeply felt as she is one of a handful of scholars who studies the mirage of Rwanda's economic miracle. The strength of Sundberg's work lies in its critical study of urban Rwanda through the mechanism of iterero.” (Susan Thomson, Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University, USA)
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Molly Sundberg is Researcher and Lecturer in 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Training for Model Citizenship
Book Subtitle: An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda
Authors: Molly Sundberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58422-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58421-2Published: 13 May 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58422-9Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 276
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics