{"product_id":"peaceful-selves-laura-eramian-9781789204933","title":"Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Eramian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789204933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789204933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Laura Eramian","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938807644415,"sku":"9781789204933","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_218b1cd7-38c9-4077-b289-cb4866f5a619.jpg?v=1681437821","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peaceful-selves-laura-eramian-9781789204933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}