Introduction: The ‘Dilemma of Recognition’. On the ‘Experienced Reality’ of Ethnicised Politics in Rwanda and Burundi

Schraml, Carla

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“…Adding to the quantitative research that has demonstrated differences based on group power and status in how people respond to social recategorization (Dovidio et al., ), our qualitative approach shows that there are also important differences within groups, while differences between groups were not very pronounced. Attitudes and beliefs in postgenocide Rwanda have at times been portrayed as specific to Hutu versus Tutsi (e.g., Schraml, ), in line with social psychological research on minority versus majority group preferences for recategorization. In contrast, we identified only two group‐specific themes, both of which reflected a critical stance toward the single recategorization policies: Tutsi talked more about the trauma of the genocide as an obstacle to unity, while Hutu mentioned the discrimination of Hutu children and orphans.…”

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“You Can't Give a Syringe with Unity”: Rwandan Responses to the Government's Single Recategorization Policies

Moss

Vollhardt

2015

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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Rwanda's postgenocide government has implemented policies that resemble social psychological models of single recategorization, banning references to ethnic groups and replacing these with a superordinate, Rwandan identity. While social psychological research suggests problems with this approach, little is known about how people make sense of recategorization in the aftermath of ethnic conflict and genocide. The present interview study investigates the responses of 56 Rwandans to these single recategorization policies. Despite strong societal pressures, a variety of positions were apparent-showing how people actively construe categories, and the complexity of single recategorization in real-world settings. The findings suggest several novel insights and policy implications, including the need for context-specific approaches, utilitarian reasons for single recategorization, the role of malleability of identities in promoting social recategorization, and the potential use of recategorization models as transitional measures in postconflict societies.The year 2014 marked the 20-year commemoration of the Rwandan genocide, in which nearly a million people were killed-mainly the Tutsi minority targeted

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“You Can't Give a Syringe with Unity”: Rwandan Responses to the Government's Single Recategorization Policies

Moss

Vollhardt

2015

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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“…Left unqualified, Bunintended^in conventional usage suggests lack of anticipation. But the risk of segregation has been a standard critique of multiculturalism since its inception, a risk policy makers around the world are keenly aware of (De Zwart 2000, 2005Schraml 2011). 25 Segregation is an unwelcome but anticipated side effect: it is permitted because it is traded off against intended effects such as managing immediate crises and promoting equal cultural recognition.…”

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Unintended but not unanticipated consequences

Zwart

2015

Theor Soc

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The concept Bunanticipated consequences,^coined by Robert K. Merton (1936), has largely been replaced in current social science by its putative synonym, Bunintended consequences.^This conflation suggests that Bunintended^consequences are also Bunanticipated,^effectively obscuring an interesting and real category of phenomena-consequences that are both unintended and anticipated-that warrant separate attention. The first part of this article traces the conflation of Bunintended^and Bunanticipated,^and explains why it occurred. The second part argues the need for a clear distinction between what is unintended and what is unanticipated, and it illustrates the failure of the present concept of Bunintended consequences^to do so and the consequences that has for social and political analysis.

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“…La formule « consociative » du Burundi, de la fragilité à la dangerosité. Pour mettre fin à treize ans de guerre civile au Burundi 3 , les accords de paix d'Arusha (2000) et la constitution de 2005 ont instauré un partage du pouvoir d'inspiration consociative (Vandeginste, 2006 ;Schraml, 2011). Le Président et les deux vice-présidents doivent appartenir à des ethnies différentes et à des partis politiques distincts.…”

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Maupeu²

2016

Afrique Contemporaine

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Introduction: The ‘Dilemma of Recognition’. On the ‘Experienced Reality’ of Ethnicised Politics in Rwanda and Burundi

Cited by 9 publications

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“You Can't Give a Syringe with Unity”: Rwandan Responses to the Government's Single Recategorization Policies

“You Can't Give a Syringe with Unity”: Rwandan Responses to the Government's Single Recategorization Policies

Unintended but not unanticipated consequences

Une nouvelle Afrique de l’Est ?

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