Anna Hedlund is a social anthropologist at Lund University and a Senior Research Associate with the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg.

"[A]n authoritative ethnographic study of life in a military camp controlled by the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda...Important in its scope, empirics, and insight." (H-Genocide) "A fabulous book. Hutu Rebels is the first to provide an in-depth analysis of Hutu rebels and to present their own perspectives on the war and on their own situations. Anna Hedlund handily refutes stereotypes of rebel life as one defined by chaos and violence while also highlighting the boredom, normalcy, and everydayness that accompanies such a life. It is based on extraordinary ethnographic research and firsthand material, and the analysis is as nuanced as it is convincing and insightful." (Séverine Autesserre, author of The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding)

• List of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction. Conflict and Violence in the CongoChapter 1. Rwandan Rebels in the Congo War: Power, Politics, and ExileChapter 2. Rainbow Brigade: Life in a Rebel CampChapter 3. Politics in the Forest: Retelling History in ExileChapter 4. Captivity and CommitmentChapter 5. The Forest of Volcanoes: Rebel-Civilian InteractionsChapter 6. From Bare Life to Bare ViolenceReferencesNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Anna Hedlund is a social anthropologist at Lund University and a Senior Research Associate with the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg.

"[A]n authoritative ethnographic study of life in a military camp controlled by the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda...Important in its scope, empirics, and insight." (H-Genocide) "A fabulous book. Hutu Rebels is the first to provide an in-depth analysis of Hutu rebels and to present their own perspectives on the war and on their own situations. Anna Hedlund handily refutes stereotypes of rebel life as one defined by chaos and violence while also highlighting the boredom, normalcy, and everydayness that accompanies such a life. It is based on extraordinary ethnographic research and firsthand material, and the analysis is as nuanced as it is convincing and insightful." (Séverine Autesserre, author of The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding)

• List of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction. Conflict and Violence in the CongoChapter 1. Rwandan Rebels in the Congo War: Power, Politics, and ExileChapter 2. Rainbow Brigade: Life in a Rebel CampChapter 3. Politics in the Forest: Retelling History in ExileChapter 4. Captivity and CommitmentChapter 5. The Forest of Volcanoes: Rebel-Civilian InteractionsChapter 6. From Bare Life to Bare ViolenceReferencesNotesIndexAcknowledgments