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Who Must Die in Rwanda's Genocide?: The State of Exception Realized
This book analyzes the hundred-year development of the "state of exception" in Rwanda, a political theory developed and expanded by Foucault, Agamben, and others. It analyzes Hutu regime propaganda utilized to dehumanize the Tutsi population and how state action created a setting for genocide to become an appropriate reaction to political threats.
Book Details
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publish Date: Sep 30th, 2019
- Pages: 182
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.41in - 0.59lb
- EAN: 9781498518666
- Categories: • World - African• Genocide & War Crimes
About the Author
Kyrsten Sinema represents Arizona's Ninth District in the U.S. Congress. She received her PhD and JD from Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
Twenty-five years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Who Must Die in Rwanda's Genocide: The State of Exception Realized by newly-elected Arizona senator Krysten Sinema is a timely reminder that state-backed killings do not erupt accidentally, but instead they are the predictable outcome of security logics that are increasingly the norm in contemporary liberal democracies. . . . A senator with expertise in African history and politics can help those in positions of power notice what many scholars of Rwanda and African Studies know too well: devastating violence is already occurring to those who have been excluded from the political community, in contemporary Rwanda and in the United States, and for many, its escalation already feels inevitable.
From the pre-colonial era to the present, Rwandan politics has been divided along caste lines, reified by colonial "race science," finally resulting in genocide. Sinema masters the paths of Rwandan political history without getting lost in the forest. She brings a practical politician's insight into the realities of power. She describes how impunity finally fostered catastrophe.