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Politics of Innocence: Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life

By Simon Turner

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2010
ISBN
9781845458454
DOI
10.1515/9781845458454
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1361252 bytes)
Series
Forced Migration; 30
Pages
194\194
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:03:33

Description

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, following the 1993 massacres in Burundi and the Rwandan genocide. The book explores how different groups within the camp apply different strategies to cope with these issues and how the question of innocence and victimhood is itself imbued with ambiguity, as young men struggle to recuperate their masculinity and their political subjectivity.

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