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Reticent Digital Diasporas in Times of Crisis: The Shifting Emotion Work of the Burundian Diaspora
Burundi has been through several cycles of violence and relative peace over the past decades, resulting in a sizable diaspora in the region and in Europe and North America. This diaspora has been engaged in long-distance politics, aided by the development of ICT. Based on long term fieldwork in the diaspora for two decades, we explore how the relations between the digital diasporas and the conflic
“Right Now, I Don’t Know What the Future Might Bring” : Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis
Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons: Stuckness and Confinement
Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens of ‘stuckness’.From a point of departure in anthropology, with important contributions from criminology, geography and philosophy, the chapters e
‘Winning Life’ and the Discipline of Death at Iwawa Island
'Winning Life' and the Discpline of Death at Iwawa Island
This article analyses Iwawa, a rehabilitation centre for ‘delinquent’ young men in Rwanda. Like prisons, detention centres and refugee camps elsewhere, Iwawa is both a place of nurture and abandonment; of improving life and disallowing it. We argue that in order to grasp these tensions, we might pay attention to the role of death in disciplining those who are confined. A common way for these young
Introduction: Stuckness and Sites of Confinement
This Introduction to the special issue develops a theoretical argument around the interrelations of space and time in sites of confinement by exploring the relationships between ghettos, camps, places of detention, prisons and the like with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed and who are doing their utmost to cope or escape. We explo
The social construction of diasporas: conceptual development and the Rwandan case
In this chapter, the author deals with how moral attributes are assigned to particular diasporas or parts of a diaspora, developing his argument both conceptually and with respect to the Rwandan government's construction of diaspora. The Rwandan government does what it can to attract investments and encourage return migration of those abroad who are believed to be supportive of the regime (its 'po
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Responding to Purdeková
Straus, Scott: Making and Unmaking Nations.: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa
Stepputat, Finn (ed) 2014. Governing the dead: Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press. (Human Remains and Violence series). 272 pp. Hb.: £75.00, ISBN: 9780719096082.
Victims of Chaos and Subaltern Sexualities?: Some Reflections on Common Assumptions about Displacement and the Prevalence of Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Staying out of Place: The being and becoming of Burundians refugees in the camp and the city
Victors, Saviors and Suspects: Channeling Mobility in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Driven Out
This article is a commentary on Saskia Sassen's recent book, 'Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy'. in the Book Forum, Sassen responds to this commentary together with two others.