Politics of innocence : Hutu identity, conflict, and camp life
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Politics of innocence : Hutu identity, conflict, and camp life
（Studies in forced migration, v. 30）
Berghahn Books, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-176) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
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?
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