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ethnocide as discourse and practice

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An edition of Burundi (1994)

Burundi

ethnocide as discourse and practice

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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.

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
206

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Subjects

Politics and government, Violence, Ethnic relations, Genocide, Political aspects, Burundi, Africa, history

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Burundi: ethnic conflict and genocide
1996, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Cambridge University Press
in English - 1st pbk. ed.
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Burundi: ethnocide as discourse and practice
1994, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-193) and index.

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Washington, New York, N.Y
Series
Woodrow Wilson Center series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
323.1/67572
Library of Congress
DT450.64 .L46 1994, DT450.64 .L45 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 206 p. :
Number of pages
206

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Open Library
OL1426511M
ISBN 10
0521451760
LCCN
93037592, 96233050
OCLC/WorldCat
34827105, 29222690
Library Thing
1161522

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