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A Look at Rwanda
Jan. 22nd, 2006 12:29 amWhen Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda
Mahmood Mamdani, Princeton University Press, 2001.
Goals:
1. I show the ways in which history writing has been complicit with imperialism, particularly in naturalizing political identities, Hutu and Tutsi, and in considering facts about place of origin (migration) as key to history making.
2. I show the ways in which key texts on the 1959 Revolution failed to problematize the object of their analysis.
"Instead of addressing critically the ways in which the postcolonial state reproduced and reinforced colonially produced political identities in the name of justice, they ended up once again treating these identities as if they were natural constructs." (xiii)
( Chapters 1-3 Notes... )
Mahmood Mamdani, Princeton University Press, 2001.
Goals:
1. I show the ways in which history writing has been complicit with imperialism, particularly in naturalizing political identities, Hutu and Tutsi, and in considering facts about place of origin (migration) as key to history making.
2. I show the ways in which key texts on the 1959 Revolution failed to problematize the object of their analysis.
"Instead of addressing critically the ways in which the postcolonial state reproduced and reinforced colonially produced political identities in the name of justice, they ended up once again treating these identities as if they were natural constructs." (xiii)
( Chapters 1-3 Notes... )
