Miniatures Episode 7: When Ethnicity Is Taboo - Everyday Ethnicity in Rwanda with Dr Meghan Laws

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Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories

Miniatures Podcast

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Welcome to Miniatures, the Podcast for the History of Everyday Life. We show how the big picture in history is best seen through the assemblage of individual and local stories, what the German historian Alf Lüdtke called ‘miniatures’. We discuss all aspects of the history of everyday life, microhistory, and ‘history from below’, featuring interviews and discussion with experts in the field. Between 2020 and 2024 this podcast was supported by the European Research Council as part of the 'Dictatorship as Experience Project' at the University of St Andrews.

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Miniatures Episode 7: When Ethnicity Is Taboo - Everyday Ethnicity in Rwanda with Dr Meghan Laws

Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories

51 minutes 54 seconds

1 year ago

Miniatures Episode 7: When Ethnicity Is Taboo - Everyday Ethnicity in Rwanda with Dr Meghan Laws

What’s it like to live in a country dealing with the traumatic aftermath of a genocide? And in a country that also criminalises most public expressions or discussions of ethnicity? Dr Meghan Laws (University of St Andrews) joins us to talk about her work in Rwanda and the ‘hidden transcripts’ of ethnicity that lie beneath the surface of the official ‘ethnic amnesia’.

This podcast was originally published on 25th February 2021 as part of the ERC research project ‘Dictatorship as experience: A comparative history of everyday life and the ‘lived experience’ of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe (1922-1975)’ led by Prof. Kate Ferris at the University of St Andrews. To learn more about the wider project, visit: ⁠arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/everyday-dictatorship/⁠

Hosted by: Dr Huw Halstead

Produced by: Dr Huw Halstead

Music by: Oi Palaiológoi (Violin - Roddy Beaton, Outi - David Hughes)