Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide - Burundi and Rwanda in Historical-Sociological Perspective

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Modernity, Colonialism, Genocide
1. Genocide and Colonialism
2. Theorising the Multiplicity tf Modernity
Part II: Entangled routes to and through modernity
3. Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: A Historical Survey
4. The Colonial Entanglement, 1905–1945: The Racialisation of Tradition.
5. Trajectories Towards Independence, 1945–1965: Multiple ‘Societal Self-Understandings’
6. Postcolonial Crisis and Genocide, 1965–-1994: Traumas of Modernity.
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Jack Palmer is a teaching fellow in sociology at the University of Leeds. His research interests lie in theoretical debates concerning experiences, interpretations and trajectories of modernity, in the sociology of colonial-imperialism, and in genocide studies.

Summary

This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges the Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of modernisation move gradually towards more peaceable forms of cohabitation.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Palmer, Jack (University of Leeds Palmer, Palmer Jack
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367821111
• ISBN: 978-0-367-82111-1
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, Burundi, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Rwanda, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Armed Conflict