This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of modernisation move gra…
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 -- Trajectori…
This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of modernisation move gra…