{"id":477,"date":"2015-01-09T09:43:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T09:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=477"},"modified":"2015-01-09T09:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T09:43:39","slug":"studying-agaciro-moving-beyond-wilsonian-interventionist-knowledge-production-on-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Studying Agaciro: Moving Beyond Wilsonian Interventionist Knowledge Production on Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post, Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa<\/a>\u00a0(Lecturer in International Development and European Studies, University of Portsmouth)\u00a0offers\u00a0an outline of her new article, which was recently published in\u00a0the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Twenty years after the end of the Rwandan genocide, knowledge production on the small country of a thousand hills remains a clamorous battle ground of post- and decolonial power and influence. This essay critically engages with the knowledge production on Rwanda in the West by conceptualizing it as a Wilsonian intervention in the post-colony:\u00a0 paternalistically well-intended at the service of the peace, democracy and free trade liberal triad, while at the same time silencing, self-contradictory and potentially counterproductive. The Wilsonian interventionist form of knowledge production is coated in a language of critical engagement and care. At the same time it is and allows for a continuous external engagement in view of this Wilsonian triad \u2014 a highly particularist view on the good life, cast in universal terms. As a former journalist and a researcher from the Belgian Rwandan diaspora and building on a decolonial research strategy, in this essay I reflect on potentially different avenues to produce and consume knowledge on the country. I do this by discussing the\u00a0 challenges and creative opportunities of a recently started research project on Agaciro (self-worth): a philosophy and public policy in post-genocide Rwanda rooted in its precolonial past, centred on the ideals of self-determination, dignity and\u00a0 self-reliance. Rather than inscribing itself firmly into the canon that aims at informing on Rwanda, this research project seeks to contribute to a different mode of imagining, studying and enacting sovereignty in today\u2019s academic and political world, both permeated by the hegemonic principle of the responsibility to protect (R2P).<\/p>\n

A full version of\u00a0Olivia’s article is currently available to\u00a0download for free from\u00a0the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this post, Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa\u00a0(Lecturer in International Development and European Studies, University of Portsmouth)\u00a0offers\u00a0an outline of her new article, which was recently published in\u00a0the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Twenty years after the end of the Rwandan genocide, knowledge … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}