LEADER 03785cam a2200385Ia 4500001 146760 005 20240621205316.0 008 090311s2008 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3276748 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocn318463740 035 146760 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 DT450.435 |b.Z73 2008 100 1 Zraly, Maggie. 245 10 Bearing : |bresilience among genocide-rape survivors in Rwanda / |cby Maggie Zraly. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2008. 300 466 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2008. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-460). 520 This dissertation is an ethnographic study of resilience among Rwandan genocide-rape survivors based on over 14 months of fieldwork with two women's and girls' associations of genocide survivors in the Huye District of Rwanda. One association brings together genocide widows on the national, district, and sector levels in Rwanda and has a total membership of approximately 25,000 survivors (AVEGA). The other gathers together women and girls who were raped during the genocide and has 60 members ( Abasa). Resilience was approached as a cultural process involving the self, emotion, and social engagement, and a political economy of emotions framework was crafted to guide the study. The purpose of this study was to: (1) understand resilience among Rwandan genocide-rape survivors, (2) explain differences in resilience across association memberships, and (3) explore how resilience among Rwandan genocide-rape survivors is implicated in the remaking of postgenocide society in Rwanda. Resilience was found to consist of the work of bearing. No significant difference was found across the Abasa and AVEGA samples between the frequency of elements and categories of resilience discussed in resilience narratives. However, Abasa members were found to be engaging in more elements of bearing living, conceptualized as an intentional stance in the world that anticipates the transition from "bad life" to "good life". Furthermore, in the absence of a functioning public health sector, unpredictable international NGO funding threatened the emotional work of collective resilience, described as an intersubjective sociosomatic experience whereby courage and hope engage the intentional bodies of genocide-rape survivors to generate contexts for living. The findings from this study contribute to the literature by ushering the phenomenon of resilience, particularly in its collective form, squarely into the domain of medical anthropology. The results of this study are translated into concrete recommendations for a novel approach to mental health promotion among women and girls affected by war- and genocide-rape. The conclusions of this study support the argument that international health and development projects in Africa must be driven from a human rights framework rather than neoliberal ideology. 530 Also available via the World Wide Web. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Genocide |zRwanda |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Women and war |zRwanda. 650 0 Resilience (Personality trait) 651 0 Rwanda |xHistory |yCivil War, 1994 |xWomen. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1390319891&sid=27&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 852 0 |bstacks |hDT450.435 |i.Z73 2008 852 |bwww