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...Andrea Mariko Grant Abstract This article explores Pentecostal sounds and voice in postgenocide Rwanda. It centers on the question of why gospel singers were criticized for crossing over into “secular” music after beginning their careers in the church. Joining scholarship that examines...

... ), Doctors Without Borders' R D Congo: Silence, on meurt ( D. R. Congo: Quiet, We're Dying ), and Human Rights Watch's Shattered Lives , Seeking Justice , and The War within the War and through Terry George's film and book Hotel Rwanda , this study discusses the ideological nature and the political...

...Matthew Engelke Abstract This essay introduces the special section “Word, Image, Sound,” a collection of essays on public religion and religious publicities in Africa and South Asia. The essays cover case studies in Myanmar, Zambia, Senegal, Rwanda, and Egypt. The introduction situates the essays...

...,     28, x her vast and critical insights into the aesthetics of video art. I am e.g., Hotel Rwanda, DVD, dir. Terry George, 121 min. (Santa Mon-    Vol. Press also grateful for a research grant...

... by reimagining the third world. Biodun Jeyifo offers a more sophisticated case for oppositional politics, one profitably articulated in terms of the “world historical.” His lecture “Inside and Outside the Whale: ‘Bandung,’ ‘Rwanda,’ Postcolonial Studies,” first delivered at Cornell University in 2002...

... oi obigjsiet niiul n oite hthv xeine oeo h worst the of some experienced have that societies and Cam- events. and individuals those Leone, to Sierra of justice Rwanda, memory Africa, bring collective South to Timor, shape East bodia and in past efforts the traumatic examines a essay of This truth...

... on Terror . New York : Doubleday , 2009 . Mamdani Mahmood . When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2002 . Meillassoux Claude . The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold...

... cooperation agreements” with sub-Saharan colonies were granted indepen- numerous African states. The French played dence in 1960. The newly independent African a very controversial role in the 1994 genocide states were confronted with the imperative of in Rwanda, supplying arms to, and training...

... Middle the violencein and war by zones”created “death contemporary   Africa South and Congo, Darfur, Rwanda, to Algeria Fromthrough toacts narrative. andJenin, Sabra Shatila andFallouja,from Qana Gaza, Nouri Africa and the Middle East Narrative Violence: Introduction...

... Cultural Heritage” ; Arantes, “Cultural Heritage Misfits” ; Hafstein, “Cultural Heritage” ; Harrison, Heritage ; and Hartog, “Time and Heritage.” 2. Nora, Symbols . Examples include Auschwitz Birkenau, declared a World Heritage site in 1979, and the four Rwanda genocide centers, added...

... and Madagascar, there are ritania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, and Zaire.4 no other regional backbones or links between neighbouring Africa boasts twelve percent of the world’s population, but countries.11 The high international tariffs charged by tele- only two percent of the world’s telephones...

... evident in contexts like Bosnia and Rwanda, 14 spurred in these cases by the proximity of the different communities that perpetrated sexual violence. But what role, then, does Pakistan's geographical distance from Bangladesh play? Has it facilitated amnesia among West Pakistanis, many of whom were...

... by increased state-led developmentalism as well as authoritarian rule. In recent years, the city of Kigali, Rwanda has undergone extensive urban renewal and infrastructural development. While this development has been combined with political violence and repression, popular protest has been virtually absent...

.... prosecuted a be of to first been amnesty have general would promulgated who people the Lebanon, In trials. international and subject national to been have Yugoslavia and other Africa, South in Rwanda, criminals in conflicts and civil war late-twentieth-century “truth comparison, of In ben- process the efits...

... border, from the A salient example in recent decades has been s until the Rwanda refugee crisis of the long land border between the United States Under quite di erent circumstances, the model and Mexico. Here the paramount concern of of the ”segmentary state” and its analogues may the United...

.... At the core of Abelo s household, for in- stance, were two pairs of brothers two brothers from Kibuye and two twins from central Katanga. Abelo and Gael were Tutsi refugees from Rwanda who matured in South Kivu and joined a fringe militia of Laurent Kabila s Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation...

... responsibility for the Darfur cri- of the conflict in Darfur has been fully endorsed by the sis. This policy stand supported the firm position of the European Union.61 Rwanda and Nigeria have each sent United Nations and the African Union in their attempts 150 troops to Darfur. But Khartoum has refused...

... to ment in Chile” (Estrella Vasquez Herrera, Chile); the practical training students received at Peoples’ “A House-­Building Plant for Rwanda” (Francois Friendship University. The Soviets viewed science Nikoulinki, Rwanda); and “Sports Complex for and technology as a means...

... Rwanda, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. On the other It is difficult to claim Muslim exclusivity about hand, from the viewpoint of the United States, Ni- processes of intensification of religious identity and geria’s role during the 1990s became more central in politicization of religion. The discovery...

..., and Rwanda, what are the ways of ensuring that the dismissal of the “liberal projects of emancipation” (Tadiar, 14, 18) by radical thinkers and activists does not end up helping to nurture the ramparts of authoritarian and fascist rule—by the similarly disenfranchised and disaffected on the right...