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

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Social theory, area studies and historical sociology: a hermeneutic approach
	Structure of the book
	Notes
PART I: Modernity, colonialism, genocide
	1. Genocide and colonialism
		Genocide
		Colonialism
		Genocide and colonialism
		Notes
	2. Theorising the multiplicity of modernity
		Modern society and Eurocentrism
		Modernity as a condition
		Multiple modernities
		Entangled historical routes to and through modernity
		Notes
PART II: Entangled routes to and through modernity
	3. Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: A historical survey
		The Great Lakes region
		Rwanda
		Burundi
		Intermediate reflections
		Notes
	4. The colonial entanglement, 1905–1945: The racialisation of tradition
		Theorising the colonial state
		The Hamitic hypothesis and European exploration
		Situating colonial rule
		The colonial reconstruction
		Intermediate reflections
		Notes
	5. Trajectories towards independence, 1945–1965: Multiple ‘societal self-understandings
		Multiplicity, elites and societal self-understandings
		Situating Burundi and Rwanda in transformations of the geo-historical entanglements of modernity
		Disentangling trajectories towards independence
		Intermediate reflections
		Notes
	6. Postcolonial crisis and genocide, 1965–1994: Traumas of modernity
		The modernity of genocide
		Disentangling the ‘manifold interlockings’ of post-independence violence
		Intermediate reflections
		Notes
Conclusion
References
Index