Trajectories of authoritarianism in Rwanda : elusive control before the genocide
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Trajectories of authoritarianism in Rwanda : elusive control before the genocide
(African studies series, 161)
Cambridge University Press, 2023
- : hardback
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
-
Kobe University General Library / Library for Intercultural Studies
: hardback312-455-D068202200157
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-381) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Challenging assumptions regarding the strength and control of authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society. Through careful, detailed analysis Desrosiers offers a nuanced assessment of the functions and evolution of authoritarianism over time, demonstrating how the governments of Rwanda's first two post-independence Republics (1962-1990) sought and often struggled to cement their rule. Whilst the deeper, lived realities of authoritarianism are generally neglected by multi-cases comparisons at the heart of comparative authoritarian studies, this illuminating survey highlights the essential, yet subtle authoritarian strategies, patterns, and forms of decay that are too often overlooked when addressing authoritarian contexts.
Table of Contents
- Trajectories of authoritarianism: An introduction
- 1. The study of authoritarianism, including in Rwanda
- 2. Should Rwanda matter to the study of authoritarianism?
- 3. Some background: Timelines, beginnings and endings
- 4. The shape of authoritarianism in pre-genocide Rwanda
- 5. Communicating norms for behaviour
- 6. Challenges to the monopoly of legitimate violence
- 7. Competition around and within the security sanctum
- 8. The political and economic grind
- 9. Individual and local trajectories
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
by "Nielsen BookData"