Twa in Rwanda : situating global discourses of indigeneity, conservationism and development in daily life / Morag Goodwin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodwin, Morag, author.

Series:

Global law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Batwa (African people)--Rwanda.

Batwa (African people).

Batwa (African people)--Legal status, laws, etc--Rwanda.

Ethnology--Rwanda.

Ethnology.

Batwa (African people)--Legal status, laws, etc.

Rwanda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"This book is a contribution to the growing field of global legal ethnography. Through engagement with the global discourses of indigeneity, conservation and development, this empirical study shows how power and legal normativity are enacted and experienced in the everyday life of the Batwa in Rwanda. By exploring how Twa negotiate their position within society, the regulatory power of these global jurisdictional encounters to construct (subjects, communities, normative frameworks), to reframe and to discipline comes into sharper focus. Focusing on agency instead of resistance, on a desire for inclusion rather than difference, this book provides a critical contribution to the scholarship on counter-hegemonic narratives of globalisation. Rwandan Twa are positioning themselves within national and global narratives to demand progress and belonging – not as part of a political movement based on their ethnic distinctness or indigeneity but as Rwandans"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Setting the scene

Tales of Rwanda’s Twa : Indigenous, (self-)marginalised, and poor

A different kind of dirt

Progress, mind-set, and Agaciro : The Twa as development subjects

Becoming Rwandan

Acted upon, acting on

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 6, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Goodwin, Morag Twa in Rwanda

ISBN:

9781009768528

1009768522

OCLC:

1573775424

Publisher Number:

CIPO000397848

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license