The Rwandan government has undertaken ambitious development projects resulting in major changes to the country’s built environment, including the materiality of genocide heritage. This article focuses on the genocide memorials of Nyamata and Ntarama, arguing that these sites demonstrate how globally-circulating discourses of development and preservation are vernacularized, instantiated, and transformed in their encounter with the national imaginary. The forces that affect the material choices of heritage management here include Rwanda’s state-led imperative toward a particular physical ideal of development, UNESCO World Heritage-driven concepts of authenticity, and the Rwandan government’s need for evidence of genocide. Differently affecting each site, these factors result in multiple modes of material intervention. The article argues that the physical form of heritage sites is shaped by engagements between global and local discourses and ideals of heritage and development; these engagements direct the processes of preservation and intervention that ultimately determine how heritage is materialized.

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想象种族灭绝的遗产：卢旺达的发展和保护的物质模式

卢旺达政府已进行了雄心勃勃的发展项目，导致该国的建筑环境发生了重大变化，包括种族灭绝遗产的重要性。本文着眼于Nyamata和Ntarama的种族灭绝纪念馆，认为这些遗址证明了在与国家虚构人物的相遇中，如何在本土传播，实例化和改变全球传播的发展与保护话语。影响遗产管理的物质选择的因素包括卢旺达对特定的物质发展理想的国家主导的命令，联合国教科文组织世界遗产驱动的真实性概念以及卢旺达政府对种族灭绝的证据的需求。这些因素以不同的方式影响每个站点，从而导致多种形式的物质干预。文章认为，遗产地的物理形式是由全球和地方话语与遗产与发展理想之间的互动所形成的；这些活动指导着保存和干预的过程，这些过程最终决定了遗产的实现方式。