What's on a peasant's mind? Experiencing RPF state reach and overreach in post-genocide Rwanda (2000-10)

Journal of Eastern African Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 214-230

  Ingelaere, Bert ^a,b,c  

^a RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

authority; governance; life histories; peasantry; Rwanda; Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF); service delivery; state fragility; state building; structural violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896059327     PISSN: 17531055     EISSN: 17531063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2014.891783     Document Type: Article

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