Table 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.