Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been
challenged with building a unified nation. Reaching beyond the
better-studied topics of post-conflict justice and memory, the book
investigates the project of civic education, the upsurge of state-led
neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the use of camps and
retreats shape the "ideal" Rwandan citizen. Rwanda's ingando camps
offer unique insights into the uses of dislocation and liminality in an
attempt to anchor identities and desired political roles, to practically
orient and symbolically place individuals in the new Rwandan order, and,
ultimately, to create additional platforms for the reproduction of
political power itself.