Training for Model Citizenship

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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 citizen. Today, this ideal is pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and everyday forms of government. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the daily government of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book asks how such a pursuit has come to affect Rwandans’ relation to the state and what it may tell us about modern forms of authoritarian rule. 

This book explores the state in post-genocide Rwanda through an ethnography of a state-run civic education program and everyday forms of government. 
In 2007, the Rwandan government introduced a nationwide civic education program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Since then, this ideal has been pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and daily government practices. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the day-to-day administration of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book investigates how such a pursuit has come to affect Rwandans’ relation to the state and what it may tell us about modern forms of authoritarian rule.

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Molly Sundberg

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“Sundberg's contribution to development studies is deeply felt as she is one of a handful of scholars who studies the mirage of Rwanda's economic miracle. The strength of Sundberg's work lies in its critical study of urban Rwanda through the mechanism of iterero.” (Susan Thomson, Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University, USA)

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