Resistance to the New Green Revolution in Africa: the revenge of lives over norms
(2020) Resistances: Between theories and the field — ISBN: [9781786609366], published
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Nyenyezi Bisoka, Aymar 
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- Over the past few years, the literature on Rwanda has increasingly focused upon a previously underacknowledged theme - namely, the resistance of Rwandan citizens to national development policies. Existing literature has insisted on strategies of resistance employed by Rwandans with regard to post-genocide policy reforms. It allows us to understand the variety, the complexity and the limits of post-conflict political processes around a discourse of Rwanda as a model for African development and sheds light on the ways in which local communities interact and react to those policies and discourses. This chapter aims to advance the theoretical debate on resistance in Rwanda on the basis of the work of Judith Butler. It attempts to understand how the prescription of a new green revolution for Africa has been promoted since the onset of the 2000 s, and how resistance to this prescription took shape. We will spotlight cases of resistance to overall policy prescription by focusing upon mid-level actors, members of civil society organizations, and local authorities situated at the lower level of local administrative units.
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Ansoms, A., & Nyenyezi Bisoka, A. (2020). Resistance to the New Green Revolution in Africa: the revenge of lives over norms. In Murru, S. and A. Polese (ed.), Resistances: Between theories and the field. Rowman & Littlefield. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/220944