Training for Model Citizenship An Ethnography of Civic Education and
This book provides an ethnography of a state-run civic education program based in a local neighborhood in Rwanda. In 2007, the Rwandan government launched a nationwide program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan
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Molly Sundberg
Training for Model Citizenship
Molly Sundberg
Training for Model Citizenship An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda
Molly Sundberg Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
ISBN 978-1-137-58421-2 ISBN 978-1-137-58422-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58422-9
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To Jonas and Ellis
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book is a product of many minds and helping hands. They include, first of all, the persons in Kigali who generously shared with me their knowledge, views, and daily undertakings. They constitute the foundation of this text—as well as continued friendships, I hope.1 My two research assistants were indispensable for my fieldwork. Their sensitivity and sharpness carried the project forward, and their constructive attitude made the work enjoyable and interesting in ways I could not have foreseen. I also want to thank the staff members of the Itorero Taskforce and the National Commission for Unity and Reconciliation for voluntarily taking me in and facilitating my study of Itorero, although I offered little in return. They helped with everything from obtaining my research permission to finding transport between training sites, and, especially, allowing me insight into their work, knowledge, and views of the Itorero program. I also thank Professor Paul Rutayisire at the National University of Rwanda for offering to be my academic liaison in Rwanda. His contact was mediated by the Swedish International Development Agency, the agency through which I first came in contact with
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