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A Political Monopoly Held By One Race: The Politicisation Of Ethnicity In Colonial Rwanda, Deborah Mayersen
A Political Monopoly Held By One Race: The Politicisation Of Ethnicity In Colonial Rwanda, Deborah Mayersen
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In at least some parts of Rwanda, Hutu and Tutsi subgroups have existed since pre-colonial times. Under German and Belgian colonial rule, the distinction between the Hutu majority and Tutsi minority was perceived as a racial distinction. The Tutsi minority was regarded as racially superior, and given privileged access to education and indigenous positions of authority. Over time, this perception of Tutsi superiority was both institutionalized and internalised within Rwandan society. The ‘Hutu Awakening’ during the 1950s, however, saw issues surrounding race and privilege become highly politicised. As decolonisation loomed, the intersections between race and power became sites of bitter …
Cyber Taman Mini Indonesia Indah: Ethnicity And Imagi-Nation In Blogging Culture, Endah Triastuti, Inaya Rakhmani
Cyber Taman Mini Indonesia Indah: Ethnicity And Imagi-Nation In Blogging Culture, Endah Triastuti, Inaya Rakhmani
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Although the shift of paradigm in Post Authoritarian Indonesia has rearticulated the discourse of nationhood, the general notion that it is based on an imagined community remains an important consideration. Decades of ideological hegemony has been performed by the state through various socio-cultural constructions, embedding in the minds of its citizens the notion of a nation as a territorial space that undermines ethnicity in favor of the wholeness of 'Indonesia'. This paper studies the community within the cyberspace, namely Blogger Communities, to explore collective identities that are shared in the minds of its members to re-conceptualize Indonesian nationhood. As a …