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

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

by Shakirah E. Hudani
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda

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

by Shakirah E. Hudani

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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. 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226832722
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 04/17/2024
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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
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