The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide Between Congo and Rwanda (Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture) - Hardcover

Davey, Christopher P.

 
9780472077694: The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide Between Congo and Rwanda (Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0472077694 ISBN 13: 9780472077694
Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2025

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The Banyamulenge Soldier offers a critical analysis of combatant experiences from within the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and subsequent armed groups through the interpretation of Banyamulenge soldier narratives. Banyamulenge young men joined the RPF and acted as foot soldiers in the RPF’s fight against the genocidaire in 1994 and later conflicts, becoming active agents of conflict in the region up to the present. In examining the highly political discourse and stories around the Rwandan conflict and Congo wars, this book examines RPF memory, the evolution of its uses of violence, and how these memories have shaped Banyamulenge combatants. 

Challenging the preconceived perpetrator and victim categories with a forward-thinking approach using the concept of genocide narrative identity—meaning a narrative identity shaped by experiences of social destruction or uses of genocide as a concept—Christopher P. Davey reveals how the stories we tell about ourselves shapes who we are. He shows that Banyamulenge experiences of genocide between Congo and Rwanda are layered around agencies of victimhood and perpetration of genocide. Using soldier and other community narratives, Davey examines the subjective nature of genocide in perception of an event, strategic deployment of the label, and in the (re)shaping of social worlds inhabited by this community and therefore impacting others in Congo and Rwanda. The Banyamulenge Soldier offers an insider view of the historical dynamics of current conflicts in South Kivu while adding to our understanding of relational genocide theory.

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Christopher P. Davey is a Lecturer in Political Science at Binghamton University.

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Verlag
The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472077694
ISBN 13 
9780472077694
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376
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Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2025
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