Vernacular memories: recalling Rwanda's 1943–44 famine during the Covid-19 hunger crisis
In: Third world quarterly, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 294-313
ISSN: 1360-2241
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In: Third world quarterly, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 294-313
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 1517-1518
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 120, Heft 481, S. 611-628
ISSN: 1468-2621
World Affairs Online
In: Body & society, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 3-28
ISSN: 1460-3632
Scholarship about politics and the body in conflicts has gained prominence in academic debates. This article advances these conversations by arguing that bodily scars are potent 'carriers' of memories of mass atrocities committed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Using both semi-structured interviews and a wide range of secondary sources, this study found that bodily scars – as physical manifestations of wartime torture and pain – evidence past atrocities and survivor resilience. Similarly, they are avenues through which the past is communicated and transformed (in ways that complement and surpass other mediums of memory). Bodily scars play powerful and complex roles in memory conversations; they communicate trauma and keep memories of the mass violence vivid in public and private realms. This article empirically contributes to discussions on the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda, and body studies and memory scholarship more broadly.
In: Critical studies on security, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 31-35
ISSN: 2162-4909
In: Conflict, security & development: CSD, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 475-499
ISSN: 1478-1174
In: Australian journal of human rights: AJHR, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 549-555
ISSN: 1323-238X
In: Africa: past, present & prospects
"The volume seeks to document Africa (and African states) in a state of proactivity as opposed to a reactionary mode of international relations which has long been the case due to the discipline's heavy concentration on the West"--
World Affairs Online
In: Third world quarterly, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 1408-1424
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: International peacekeeping, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 258-281
ISSN: 1743-906X
This article explores the interactions between the memories of Belgian peacekeepers killed in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the weight of the colonial past, and the Belgian foreign policy. Using interviews with Belgian politicians and diplomats, families of peacekeepers, former blue helmets, as well as a corpus of official speeches, this article finds that the memorialization of blue helmets has influenced Belgian political choices on three levels, namely: domestic politics, its bilateral relationship with Rwanda, and more broadly its position in international peacekeeping. In doing so, this article contributes to interdisciplinary debates on the role of collective memory in domestic and international politics.
World Affairs Online
In: Qualitative research, Band 22, Heft 6, S. 969-978
ISSN: 1741-3109
This research note explores the pressing ethical challenges associated with increased online platforming of sensitive research on conflict-affected settings since the onset of Covid-19. We argue that moving research online and the 'digitalisation of suffering' risks reducing complexity of social phenomena and omission of important aspects of lived experiences of violence or peace-building. Immersion, 'contexting' and trust-building are fundamental to research in repressive and/or conflict-affected settings and these are vitally eclipsed in online exchanges and platforms. 'Distanced research' thus bears very real epistemological limitations. Neither proximity not distance are in themselves liberating vectors. Nonetheless, we consider the opportunities that distancing offers in terms of its decolonial potential, principally in giving local researcher affiliates' agency in the research process and building more equitable collaborations. This research note therefore aims to propose a series of questions and launch a debate amongst interested scholars, practitioners and other researchers working in qualitative research methods in the social sciences.