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Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Power dynamics of post-genocide street renaming in urban Rwanda - the territorial demarcation between the past and the present

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Drawing on critical toponymy, and at the intersection of human geography, urban studies, and sociolinguistics, this qualitative study analyses the 2012 renaming of all Rwandan streets with a special focus on Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
Jean de Dieu Amini Ngabonziza, Tove Rosendal   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide * [PDF]

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014
AbstractThis article investigates the role of mass media in times of conflict and state-sponsored mass violence against civilians. We use a unique village-level data set from the Rwandan genocide to estimate the impact of a popular radio station that encouraged violence against the Tutsi minority population.
openaire   +5 more sources

Facilitating Feeling?: The Relationship between Memorials and Emotions

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This article explores if and how national memorials impact collective emotions among local residents, focusing on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama. This understudied question is of sociological importance given the change in federal policy regarding public memorials, particularly the removal of references to ...
Ashley V. Reichelmann, James E. Hawdon
wiley   +1 more source

Women and the Rwandan Gacaca Courts: Gender, Genocide and Justice [PDF]

, 2023
This thesis examines the gacaca trials of women accused of involvement in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide, paying particular attention to the role of ideas about their gender in this justice process. It uses court reports of the trials of ninety-
BREWER, BETHANY,ANNE
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Last Man Standing: The American Who Stayed During the Rwandan Genocide - An Interview with Carl Wilkens

Journal of Hate Studies, 2010
'Carl Wilkens is a peace activist and an educator who headed up the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda (ADRA). He was the only American who chose to remain in Kigali, Rwanda during the genocide of 1994.
Jerri Shepard
doaj   +1 more source

Does Valuing Free Speech Affect Norms of Tolerance? Evidence From Individual Preferences

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 806-827, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Amid intensifying global debates over balancing free speech with protections against hate speech, this paper investigates whether individuals who value free speech exhibit greater racial tolerance. Unlike prior studies focusing on the institutional effects of free speech, this paper examines whether individuals who prioritize free speech hold ...
Claudia Williamson Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third‐term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional ...
Tone Sommerfelt, Simon Turner
wiley   +1 more source

The U.N. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Concludes its First Case: A Monumental Step Towards Truth

African Studies Quarterly, 1998
Over the past year, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has made significant progress in apprehending and prosecuting high ranking persons responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda1.
Paul J. Magnarella
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"If you don't do this, you'll die with them" : Women Perpetrators in the Rwandan Genocide

, 2012
In April of 1994, a small African country, Rwanda, would experience a horrific genocide that wiped out nearly one million people in one hundred days. This racial struggle between the Hutu and Tutsi people rooted in the Belgian colonization of Rwanda drew
Sarles, Molly
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