‘We Are Poor, So We Keep Quiet’

A. Berglund
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Since 2006, the Rwandan government has been implementing policies to modernise the agricultural sector in a top-down manner. Small-scale subsistence farmers, making up the vast majority of Rwandans, are compelled to leave their traditional farming behind, form co-operatives and take up ‘modern’ farming techniques based on irrigation and state-approved crops. For my interlocutors in a Rwandan village, this policy resulted in reduced crop yields, difficulties in putting food on the table and a visible degradation of their lives. Yet people complied. They did not rise up in protest. They sought to meet the authorities’ demands. Although ‘government authoritarianism’ explains much of the lack of open resistance, Rwandans had their own ideas, values and practices which at times overlapped with oppressive state projects and ended up supporting the state’s agricultural modernization scheme. Here, compliance is part of how villagers wanted to project themselves to others and to themselves and how they pursued their aspirations for the future.
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“我们很穷,所以我们保持沉默”
自2006年以来,卢旺达政府一直在自上而下地实施农业部门现代化的政策。占卢旺达人绝大多数的小规模自给自足农民被迫离开他们的传统农业,组成合作社,采用基于灌溉和国家批准的作物的“现代”农业技术。对我在卢旺达一个村庄的对话者来说,这项政策导致作物产量下降,难以养家糊口,他们的生活明显恶化。然而,人们照办了。他们没有起来抗议。他们设法满足当局的要求。虽然“政府威权主义”在很大程度上解释了缺乏公开抵抗的原因,但卢旺达人有自己的想法、价值观和做法,有时与压迫性的国家项目重叠,最终支持国家的农业现代化计划。在这里,服从是村民希望如何向他人和自己展示自己,以及他们如何追求对未来的期望的一部分。
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