Politics of Innocence

Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-609-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. The Troubled Nature of Innocence

Chapter 2. Histories of Conflict

Chapter 3. The Biopolitics of Innocence

Chapter 4. Camp Life and Moral Decay

Chapter 5. ‘Big Men’ and 'Liminal' Experts’

Chapter 6. Rumour and Politics

Chapter 7. Innocence Lost

Chapter 8. Conclusion

Postscript: What Happened to the Camp?

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Turner, Simon
Simon Turner is a senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. He has worked on the conflict in Burundi, doing ethnographic fieldwork among refugees and the Diaspora in East Africa and Europe. He has published on masculinity, Diaspora and conflict, sovereignty and public authority, and refugee relief work.