Hudani Shakirah E. - Master Plans And Minor Acts Repairing The City In Post - Genocide Rwanda - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An examination of planning place and the politics of repair in post - genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor Acts examines a material politics of repair in post - genocide Rwanda where in a country saturated with deep historical memory spatial master planning aims to drastically redesign urban spaces. How is the post - conflict city reconstituted through the work of such planning and with what effects for material repair and social conciliation? Through extended ethnographic and qualitative research in Rwanda in the decades after the genocide of 1994, this book questions how repair after conflict is realized amidst large - scale urban transformation. Bridging African studies urban studies and human geography in its scope this work ties Rwanda's transformation to contexts of urban change in other post - conflict spaces bringing to the fore critical questions about the ethics of planning in such complex geographies.
Title: Master Plans And Minor Acts Repairing The City In Post - Genocide Rwanda
Author(s): Hudani Shakirah E.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226832722
Pages: 224 Pages, 15 Halftones
Publication Date: 4/17/2024
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography