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Rwanda and the Difficult Business of Capitalist Development
Author(s) -
Harrison Graham
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
development and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-7660
pISSN - 0012-155X
DOI - 10.1111/dech.12323
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , neoliberalism (international relations) , genocide , political science , set (abstract data type) , law and economics , sociology , economic system , neoclassical economics , economics , law , social science , computer science , programming language
This article argues that current schisms in the research on post‐genocide Rwanda are not sui generis but symptomatic of a broader set of separations within our understanding of development. Both the research on Rwanda and the most prominent intellectual responses to the rise of neoliberalism in development research have generated separations between a concern with rights and individual agency and structural transformation. The article sets out a way to reconcile key aspects of this separation and offers three empirical themes that provide original insights into Rwanda's apparent determination and partial success in pushing ahead with a bold strategy of capitalist transformation.