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Author Turner, Simon, 1967- author.

Title Politics of innocence : Hutu identity, conflict and camp life / Simon Turner
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2010
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (185 pages) : maps
Series Studies in forced migration ; volume 30
Studies in forced migration ; v. 30.
Contents The troubled nature of innocence -- Histories of conflict -- The biopolitics of innocence -- Camp life and moral decay -- "Big men" and "liminal experts" -- Rumour and politics -- Innocence lost -- Conclusion -- Postscript : What happened to the camp?
Summary "Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent dìsciplining mechanisms' of humanitarian agencies 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 the ambiguity surrounding these questions of innocence and victimhood and shows how young men within the camp apply different strategies to cope amidst the struggle to recuperate their masculinity and their political subjectivity."--Book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Hutu (African people) -- Tanzania
Refugees -- Tanzania
Humanitarian assistance -- Tanzania
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Humanitarian assistance
Hutu (African people)
Refugees
Identitätsentwicklung
Hutu
Burunder
Flüchtlingslager
Hutu -- Tanzania.
Tanzania
Tansania
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781845458454
1845458451
Other Titles Hutu identity, conflict and camp life