Body politics and the Rwandan crisis

Baines, Erin

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“…André and Platteau, 1998;Baines, 2003;Des Forges, 1999;Mamdani, 2001;Newbury, 1998;Straus, 2006 andVerpoorten andBerlage, 2007). Fewer have delved into the impacts of this conflict on the flora and fauna, although limited previous findings put forth negative impacts to both (Kanyamibwa, 1998;Plumptre et al, 2001;Dudley et al, 2002).…”

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Political shifts and changing forests: Effects of armed conflict on forest conservation in Rwanda

Ordway

2015

Global Ecology and Conservation

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h i g h l i g h t s• Aspects of conflict can have very different impacts on forest cover. • Theoretical framework distinguishes armed conflict activity impacts from conflict settlements. • Forest transitions in NW Rwanda indicated more spatially concentrated loss during conflict. • 96% of forest loss during conflict across the landscape occurred in protected areas.• Results underscore heavy dependence on forest resources during conflicts. a b s t r a c tMost armed conflicts in recent history occurred in biodiversity hotspots. Yet, studies examining impacts of warfare on forests yield contradictory results. This study provides a theoretical framework articulating different hypothetical relationships between conflict and forest transitions. Landsat TM and ETM+ data were analyzed to examine forest transitions in Rwanda during conflict and post conflict periods. Net trends showed little difference between periods, with a rate of 1.6% annual gain during conflict years, and 2.5% following the conflict. Closer inspection revealed spatially concentrated forest loss during conflict years; 96% occurred in protected areas with the most loss in Gishwati Forest Reserve at a rate of −6.1%. Trends were explored with spatially explicit conflict data that distinguished armed conflict activity from conflict induced settlements. Impacts of conflict on forests in Rwanda appear to be influenced by natural resource use near settlements. Massive migrations of people into settlements during the conflict, who had previously been scattered across the landscape, resulted in a redistribution of pressures. Reduced pressure elsewhere supports this inference. Results underscore the vulnerability of protected areas and the spatial dynamics of forest resource dependence during conflicts. This work demonstrates the value of distinguishing conflict activities to assess their varied environmental effects.

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Political shifts and changing forests: Effects of armed conflict on forest conservation in Rwanda

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2015

Global Ecology and Conservation

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“…This is surprising, given that frictions associated with gender roles were among the factors contributing to social tensions before the genocide. It is well documented how the gender crisis of young, unemployed, impoverished and frustrated Hutu men contributed to their willingness to engage in genocidal violence (Baines 2003;Jones 2002;Schäfer 2008;Taylor 1999). At the same time, sanctions were imposed on financially independent women who overstepped the boundaries of traditional roles and threatened the image of men as providers.…”

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Who Does What in a Household after Genocide? Evidence from Rwanda

Schindler

2010

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two unique features: exogenous variation in household types and large variation in regional cohort-specific sex ratios. Results indicate that, first, exposure to violence and male death can be a trigger of change in gender roles. Second, there is little flexibility to negotiate responsibilities within the household. Third, the local marriage market impacts the division of labor. Young, unmarried women engage more intensely in typical female activities when the shortage of men is severe. Conforming to the female gender role may be a strategy to improve their chances to marry.

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“…Such 30 extreme circumstances put cultural systems at risk of seismic change, and reveal the implicit 31 assumptions and contradictions underlying previously unquestioned power relations (Ginsburg & 32 Rapp, 1995). In moments of crisis, the ways people struggle to deliver and access healthcare can be 33 interpreted as projections of their disparate views of the nation they are struggling to construct 34 (Baines, 2003;DiMoia, 2013;Wick, 2008). In this paper, we analyse public health policies and 35 interventions targeting unwanted pregnancy (family planning and abortion) in contemporary South 36 Sudan as part of wider 'nation-building' after war.…”

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Building the nation's body: The contested role of abortion and family planning in post-war South Sudan

Palmer

Storeng

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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3This paper offers an ethnographic analysis of public health policies and interventions targeting 4 unwanted pregnancy (family planning and abortion) in contemporary South Sudan as part of wider 5 'nation-building' after war, understood as a process of collective identity formation which projects a 6 meaningful future by redefining existing institutions and customs as national characteristics. The 7 paper shows how the expansion of post-conflict family planning and abortion policy and services are 8 particularly poignant sites for the enactment of reproductive identity negotiation, policing and 9conflict. In addition to customary norms, these processes are shaped by two powerful institutions -10

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Body politics and the Rwandan crisis

Cited by 57 publications

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Political shifts and changing forests: Effects of armed conflict on forest conservation in Rwanda

Political shifts and changing forests: Effects of armed conflict on forest conservation in Rwanda

Who Does What in a Household after Genocide? Evidence from Rwanda

Building the nation's body: The contested role of abortion and family planning in post-war South Sudan

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