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Rwanda after genocide : gender, identity and post-traumatic growth
- Title
- Rwanda after genocide : gender, identity and post-traumatic growth / Caroline Williamson Sinalo.
- Author
- Sinalo, Caroline (Caroline Williamson)
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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- Description
- xvi, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Before the arrival of Europeans, conflict rarely took place between the Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda. Wars generally pitted the Banyarwanda as a group against outsiders and, with the same language, religion and cultural practices, the terms Hutu and Tutsi did not refer to distinct ethnic groups, as such, but to political status and occupation. The racialisation of these groups came with the arrival of the German and later Belgian colonists who believed the Tutsi to be racially superior to the Hutu. Such divisions were further reinforced by the colonial policy of introducing identity cards in the 1930s which explicitly stated the individual's ethnic group. Alongside these reforms, the Belgians established Tutsi supremacy by reserving educational opportunities for Tutsi and replacing all Hutu in power with pro-European Tutsi chiefs"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Defying silence, defying theory -- Postcolonial posttraumatic growth in Rwandan men -- Rwanda's women and posttraumatic individualism -- Communal men and agentic women: posttraumatic growth at the collective level -- What is really unspeakable? gender and posttraumatic growth at the international level.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-315
- ISBN
- 9781108426138
- 1108426131
- LCCN
- 2018036600
- OCLC
- 1029239767
- Author
- Sinalo, Caroline (Caroline Williamson), author.
- Title
- Rwanda after genocide : gender, identity and post-traumatic growth / Caroline Williamson Sinalo.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1994
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-315