Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide: Burundi and Rwanda in Historical-Sociological Perspective (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory)

Introduction -- Genocide and colonialism -- Theorising the multiplicity of modernity: entangled historical routes to and through modernity -- Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: a historical survey -- The colonial entanglement, 1905-1945: the racialisation of tradition -- Trajectories towards independence, 1945-1965: multiple societal self-understandings -- Postcolonial crisis and genocide, 1965-1994: traumas of modernity -- Conclusion

• | Author: Jack Palmer
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 02, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 214 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 113856432X
• | ISBN-13: 9781138564329