"This innovative study explores how long-term historical processes in the Lake Kivu region have shaped present-day relations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gillian Mathys reexamines historical understandings of mobility, conflict, identity formation and historical narration across state and ecological borders"--
"This innovative study explores how long-term historical processes in the Lake Kivu region have shaped present-day relations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gillian Mathys reexamines historical understandings of mobility, conflict, identity formation and historical narration across state and ecological borders"--
Gillian Mathys is an Associate Professor in African History at Ghent University, with particular research interests in the Great Lakes Region. She has previously been appointed as an expert to the parliamentary commission on Belgium's colonial past. Mathys has contributed articles to journals including The Journal of African History, Africa, and The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
I. Practices of Space: 1. Frontiers: centering Lake Kivu's societies (19th Century) II. Making the Borderlands: 2. Demarcations: drawing colonial borders (1890s-1910) 3. Separations: chiefs and chieftaincies (1910-1930s) III. Connections: 4. Contradictions: labor questions (1920s and 1930s) 5. Continuities: histories of mobility (ca. 1937-1948) 6. Asymmetries: friendship and commercial flows (1930s-1950s) IV. (Dis)connected Pasts: 7. Precursors: land, power and identity (1950s) 8. Borders: conflicted decolonizations (1959-1965) 9. Entanglements: 'Greater Rwanda' and 'balkanisation' (1990s-2022).
I. Practices of Space: 1. Frontiers: centering Lake Kivu's societies (19th Century) II. Making the Borderlands: 2. Demarcations: drawing colonial borders (1890s-1910) 3. Separations: chiefs and chieftaincies (1910-1930s) III. Connections: 4. Contradictions: labor questions (1920s and 1930s) 5. Continuities: histories of mobility (ca. 1937-1948) 6. Asymmetries: friendship and commercial flows (1930s-1950s) IV. (Dis)connected Pasts: 7. Precursors: land, power and identity (1950s) 8. Borders: conflicted decolonizations (1959-1965) 9. Entanglements: 'Greater Rwanda' and 'balkanisation' (1990s-2022).
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