Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Shaki

Description: Master Plans and Minor Acts by Shakirah E. Hudani 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 Rwandas 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Shakirah E. Hudani is assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Table of Contents Significant Abbreviations Introduction 1. A Material Politics of Repair Part 1. Master Plans 2. Repair in Old Kigali 3. The Project of Reformation 4. A Pedagogy of Wounds Part 2. Minor Acts 5. Political Abandonment 6. Peripheral Conscription 7. Rural Imagining Conclusion Coda. Reckonings Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index Review "Contemporary Kigali and Rwanda are often presented as gleaming models for a fantastic new urban Africa. This book provides a rigorous, well-researched and cautious set of caveats to the mythmaking, leaving the reader with a nuanced understanding of urban development in post-genocide Rwanda, the oft-claimed Singapore of Africa. The minor acts of the book are the small scale, alternative means of building urban community that run counter to the states fancy master plans and their near-constant dispossession—and this is where Rwandas real peacebuilding and reparative justice can take place." -- Garth A. Myers, Trinity College"In this outstanding new book, Shakira Hudani shows how the Rwandan state imposed a vision of post-conflict nationhood through urban planning – materially erasing and replacing memory with an engineered vision of neat social ordering. In the interstices of such violent forms of urban dispossession, Hudani finds "minor acts" of interpersonal conciliation and cooperation that offer limited, but necessary forms of repair amid the irreparable loss of the genocide. Beautifully written, and carefully argued Master Plans and Minor Acts is a major contribution to urban studies, African Studies, and post-conflict studies." -- Julie Livingston, New York University"Over the last two decades enormous changes have been underway in the urban space of Rwandas capital Kigali, a reordering the post-genocide city as part of an ambitious state-led planning program to rebuild its social and material infrastructures. Master Plans and Minor Acts offers a brilliantly illuminating way to examine post-conflict repair and reckoning through the materiality of the city. Large-scale planning, Hudani argues, is a form of erasure that performs different forms of extraordinary violence through the built environment, at the costs of memory and organic remembrance, rather than the minor acts that offer the prospects of repair and reconciliation. Master Plans and Minor Acts offers a compelling account of the relations between the material character of the city, state power, and the tasks of inhabiting the present." -- Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley"Shakirah E. Hudanis Master Plans and Minor Acts offers an impressive analysis of urban transformations in post-genocide Kigali and its surrounds. Looking beyond and below statist and transnationally financed capitalist infrastructural projects, Hudani proposes a "material politics of repair" for uncovering place-based and people-based reimagining of the palimpsestic city to reckon with the past, rebuild in the present, and reconstitute an ethical future. The "minor acts" of Hudanis book contain the seed of sustainable urban dwelling in the aftermath of violence." -- Cajetan Iheka, Yale University"Hudani demonstrates the importance of theorizing repair, enabling us to spatialize a Levinasian ethics of the neighbor, in the aftermath of traumatic events ranging from mass killings to large-scale dispossession." * Society & Space * Details ISBN0226832724 Pages 224 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780226832722 Format Paperback Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda Country of Publication United States Illustrations 15 halftones Author Shakirah E. Hudani DEWEY 967.571043 ISBN-10 0226832724 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Publication Date 2024-04-17 US Release Date 2024-04-17 UK Release Date 2024-04-17 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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