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Burundi : ethnocide as discourse and practice
- Title
- Burundi : ethnocide as discourse and practice / René Lemarchand.
- Author
- Lemarchand, René.
- Publication
- Washington : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DT450.64 .L46 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiii, 206 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the roots and consequences of ethnic strife in Burundi. It provides the reader with an appropriate background for an understanding of Burundi's 1993 transition to multiparty democracy and the coup and violence that followed. Focusing on the 1972 and 1988 bloodbaths, the author shows how these cataclysmic events shaped the images the Hutu and Tutsi have of each other and created the basis for political myths on both sides of a socially constructed fault line. In so doing, Lemarchand brings out a dimension of analysis that has seldom been taken into account in discussions of "ethnic cleansing" or "ethnocide." The main emphasis is on how ethnicity can be exploited to transform and mobilize the system of political discourse and ultimately invest it with the horrors and irrationality of genocidal violence.
- Series Statement
- Woodrow Wilson Center series
- Uniform Title
- Woodrow Wilson Center series
- Subject
- Geschichte 1850-1900
- Geschichte 1900-2000
- Violence > Burundi
- Genocide > Burundi
- Ethnic relations > Political aspects
- Genocide
- Politics and government
- Violence
- Bewaffneter Konflikt
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Ethnische Gruppe
- Ethnozid
- Gewalt
- Völkermord
- Etnische conflicten
- Genocide
- Völkermord > Burundi
- Ethnocide
- 1972-1993
- Changement social
- Langage politique
- Régimes politiques
- Relations interethniques
- ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS
- ETHNIC CONFLICT
- SOCIAL CONDITIONS
- BURUNDI
- Burundi > Ethnic relations > Political aspects
- Burundi > Politics and government
- Burundi
- Rundi
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-193) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Burundi paradox -- 2. The meta-conflict: violence as discourse -- 3. History as prologue -- 4. The crystallization of ethnic tensions -- 5. The 1972 watershed -- 6. The restructuring of state-society relations -- 7. The 1988 killings: the anatomy of fear -- 8. Toward a grand settlement -- 9. Hegemony, consociationalism, democracy, or none of the above? -- 10. Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0521451760
- 9780521451765
- LCCN
- 93037592
- http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb374639234
- OCLC
- ocm29222690
- 29222690
- SCSB-2020644
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library