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Book launch & discussion: Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide
Hybrid event: to participate via the webinar please use the registration link below.
Challenging assumptions regarding the strength and control of authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society. Through careful, detailed analysis Desrosiers offers a nuanced assessment of the functions and evolution of authoritarianism over time, demonstrating how the governments of Rwanda’s first two post-independence Republics (1962–1990) sought and often struggled to cement their rule. Whilst the deeper, lived realities of authoritarianism are generally neglected by multi-cases comparisons at the heart of comparative authoritarian studies, this illuminating survey highlights the essential, yet subtle authoritarian strategies, patterns, and forms of decay that are too often overlooked when addressing authoritarian contexts.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/trajectories-of-authoritarianism-in-rwanda/AAB90279FF223CD888EC703C02C12CE4
For a 20% discount on the book, please visit: www.cambridge.org/9781009224789 and enter the code TAR2022 at the checkout
Date:
24 January 2024, 16:00
Venue:
13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details:
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Speakers:
Andrea Purdekova ((University of Bath)),
Marie-Eve Desrosiers (University of Ottawa)
Organising department:
Centre for African Studies
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking url:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/aa738c54-3287-45dd-b4ec-a5508416e2c6@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Jason Mosley
