This review article examines the meanings and materialities of human stature, from serving
as a marker of human difference to shaping the socio‐spatial experiences of individuals. I …

Scholarship about politics and the body in conflicts has gained prominence in academic
debates. This article advances these conversations by arguing that bodily scars are potent …

In contexts where young people feel prohibited from reflecting openly on sensitive political
issues, they may explore alternative ways to communicate and negotiate their opinions and …

This article explores how the vernacular memory of the 1940s-era Ruzagayura famine was
deployed to critique the contemporary Covid-19-induced hunger crisis in Rwanda. It …

The contributions of this special issue explore the concept of colonial durabilities in a bid to
unearth both the concrete and invisible sites through which coloniality continues to circulate …

This article focuses on the concept of “peripheral” positionality based on my experiences as
a non-Western researcher negotiating multiple positions as assigned and contested by …

Much of contemporary Eastern and Southern Africa is governed by former national liberation
movements, each having won power after lengthy and punishing insurgencies. To varying …

This article explores the interactions between the memories of Belgian peacekeepers killed
in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the weight of the colonial past, and the Belgian foreign …

This chapter offers an overview of the relationship between memory politics and the quality
of peace and contributes to evolving debates. First, it examines what ties memory politics …

This article contributes to the discourse on aesthetic citizenship within the context of recent
policy shifts in Rwanda. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in 2019, I examine …