{"product_id":"peaceful-selves-personhood-nationhood-and-the-post-conflict-moment-in-rwanda-paperback","title":"Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Eramian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around \"good\" personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound dissonance in town residents' selfhood. While they strive to be agents of change who can catalyze a new era of modern Rwandan nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. In drawing out the contradictions at the heart of self-making and social life in contemporary Rwanda, this book asserts a novel argument about the ordinary lives caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLaura Eramian\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her previous publications appeared in the \u003cem\u003ePolitical and Legal Anthropology Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFocaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnthropologica\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eInternational Journal of Conflict and Violence\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47418891534514,"sku":"9781789204933","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b72685b3a9ed1c771cc535b354757059.webp?v=1778462638","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/peaceful-selves-personhood-nationhood-and-the-post-conflict-moment-in-rwanda-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}