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7 - Lineages of Governmentality

from Part IV - The Evolution of Lawfare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2024

Jens Meierhenrich
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Chapter 7 is the last of three chapters concerned with the institutional development of the gacaca courts, their formation and deformation. In conjunction, these chapters chart the transition from legalism to lawfare in post-genocide Rwanda, one of two explanatory pathways traced in the book. By carefully dissecting the temporally and spatially embedded mechanisms and processes by which elites of the Rwandan Patriotic Front maneuvered to create modified arrangements of things past, these chapters excavate the microfoundations of the authoritarian rule of law in Rwanda. This chapter foregrounds the bureaucratic dimensions of the gacaca project. Along with the previous chapter, it gives a detailed account of the economy and ingenuity with which Rwanda’s new rulers devised and waged the strategy of lawfare. It also makes clear, however, that the deformation of Rwandas gacaca courts – their decentralized despotism – was not an inevitable outcome.

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The Violence of Law
The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda
, pp. 294 - 358
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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