Competing claims over access to land in Rwanda: Legal pluralism, power and subjectivities

Bisoka, Aymar Nyenyezi; Giraud, Cécile; Ansoms, An

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.04.015

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“…Our contribution is meant to be a small and targeted part of this emerging conversation, reflecting specifically on core ethical challenges that arise as we increasingly conduct qualitative research – interviews, oral histories, on difficult topics such as past violence online and as more researchers physically distance from their research sites and subjects. Our focus on conflict-affected settings is due both to our positionality as researchers working on these contexts and because some of these ethical dilemmas arise with special urgency in such contexts (Mwambari, 2019; Ansoms, et al, 2021; Nyenyezi Bisoka et al, 2020; Nyenyezi Bisoka, 2020). What does the increased online platforming of research in the wake of Covid-19 imply for the qualitative study of sensitive and conflict-affected settings?…”

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Covid-19 and research in conflict-affected contexts: distanced methods and the digitalisation of suffering

Mwambari

Purdeková

Bisoka

2021

Qualitative Research

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This research note explores the pressing ethical challenges associated with increased online platforming of sensitive research on conflict-affected settings since the onset of Covid-19. We argue that moving research online and the ‘digitalisation of suffering’ risks reducing complexity of social phenomena and omission of important aspects of lived experiences of violence or peace-building. Immersion, ‘contexting’ and trust-building are fundamental to research in repressive and/or conflict-affected settings and these are vitally eclipsed in online exchanges and platforms. ‘Distanced research’ thus bears very real epistemological limitations. Neither proximity not distance are in themselves liberating vectors. Nonetheless, we consider the opportunities that distancing offers in terms of its decolonial potential, principally in giving local researcher affiliates’ agency in the research process and building more equitable collaborations. This research note therefore aims to propose a series of questions and launch a debate amongst interested scholars, practitioners and other researchers working in qualitative research methods in the social sciences.

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Covid-19 and research in conflict-affected contexts: distanced methods and the digitalisation of suffering

Mwambari

Purdeková

Bisoka

2021

Qualitative Research

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“…The Twa identity has also been reframed as abasangwabutaka (those who originally owned the land). In the new rendering, their 'autochthony' is being asserted even as their self-determination is denied (Ndahinda 2011, 224;Musilikare 2015; see also Bisoka, Giraud, and Ansoms 2020). Removing the Twa label simply means their (lower) status is still being preserved via a new identifier.…”

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Post-genocide identity politics and colonial durabilities in Rwanda

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Mwambari

2021

Critical African Studies

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While academic literature has long explored the ways in which colonial reification of identity and narratives underpinning unequal racialised status of colonial subjects contributed to cycles of violence in the Great Lakes region, including in Rwanda, few ask the complementary question: Does the colonial legacy imprint on the 'post-conflict' era, shaping post-genocide attempts at nation-building and identity re-engineering carried out in the name of the broader project of peacebuilding? Using the conceptual framework of colonial durabilities, we argue that despite explicit attempts to remove the vestiges of colonialism, the colonial past endures, in everyday expressions of identity as well as in grand policies of its reformulation. The current paper aims to trace these vestiges in the transformations of identity politics and nation-building in Rwanda by looking at three distinct arenas: (i) the architecture of deethnicisation policy itself; (ii) the stubborn lingering of racialised distinctions in popular culture; and (iii) the rise of 'new' social divisions based on the country of exile.

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International Political Economy and the Land Rush in Africa: Trends, Scale, Narratives, and Contestations

Andrews

Cochrane

2021

International Political Economy Series

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Competing claims over access to land in Rwanda: Legal pluralism, power and subjectivities

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Covid-19 and research in conflict-affected contexts: distanced methods and the digitalisation of suffering

Covid-19 and research in conflict-affected contexts: distanced methods and the digitalisation of suffering

Post-genocide identity politics and colonial durabilities in Rwanda

International Political Economy and the Land Rush in Africa: Trends, Scale, Narratives, and Contestations

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