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The violence of law : the formation and deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda / Jens Meierhenrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meierhenrich, Jens, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gacaca justice system.
- Tutsi (African people)--Rwanda.
- Tutsi (African people).
- Violence (Law)--Rwanda.
- Violence (Law).
- Women--Violence against--Rwanda.
- Women.
- Dictatorship.
- Lawfare.
- Rwanda--Politics and government--1994-.
- Rwanda.
- Kagamé, Paul, 1957-.
- Kagamé, Paul.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 740 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- ""Lawfare" describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends which, in post-genocide Rwanda, contributed to the making of dictatorship. Jens Meierhenrich explains how and why Paul Kagame's Tutsi-led government in the period 1994-2019 learned to substitute law for war in its consolidation of authoritarian rule"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- A justice facade
- The violence of law
- Bending the law
- Chambres specialisées : from legalism to lawfare
- Varieties of Gacaca; or: the invention of tradition
- Violent legalization
- Lineages of governmentality
- The supply and demand of law
- The marketing of genocide
- In a field of pain and death : lawfare in the countryside
- A cartography of silence
- The political economy of lawfare
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781108675574
- 1108675573
- 9781108554930
- 1108554938
- 9781108586191
- 1108586198
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