| Description |
1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Series |
African Studies ; v.152 |
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African Studies
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 What We Do and Do Not Know -- 1.1 A Synopsis of the Genocide -- 1.2 What Is Distinctive and Puzzling about Rwanda -- 1.3 What We Know Already -- 1.4 Why Consensus on the Genocide Is Limited -- 1.5 The Questions That Remain -- 1.6 Theories and Hypotheses -- Wars, Insecurity, Threats and Fear-Based Explanations -- Demographic and Environmental Explanations -- Deprivation-Related Explanations |
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Identity/Ethnicity and Racism/Prejudice-Based Explanations -- Ideologies, Myths, and Narratives -- Political and Material Opportunism -- Group Behaviour and Collective Action -- The State, Elite, and Obedience-Related Explanations -- Dispositional and Situational Explanations -- Bystander, Inaction, and Impunity Effects -- External and International Factors -- 1.7 The Argument Sketched -- 1.8 Research Design: The Evidence and Methods -- The Research Design -- The Evidence -- A Critical Note on the Methods Used in the Project -- 1.9 Organization of the Book -- 2 An Extraordinary Baseline |
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2.1 Tracing Rwanda's Historical Evolution -- Precolonial History (c. Fourteenth-Seventeenth Century to 1897) -- The Colonial Epoch (1897-1962) -- Rwanda's Revolution and the Postcolonial Era (1959-1990) -- 2.2 Rwanda's Unusual Society, Demography, and Geography -- A Highly Agrarian Society -- Exceptional Population Density -- Ethnic Bipolarity -- Cultural Homogeneity -- Ethnic Dominance -- Small Territory, Dense Road Network, and Centralized Capital -- Ethnic Settlement -- Rwanda's Ecological Homogeneity -- 3 Security: War-Time Threat -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Synopsis of Rwanda's Civil War |
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3.3 The Links between War and Genocide -- 3.4 The Media and Civilian Radicalization -- 3.5 Establishing the Baseline: Life before the War -- 3.6 The Psychological Impact of War -- Radicalization Mechanism I: The Stronger the Threat, the Greater the Ethnicization -- Radicalization Mechanism II: The Stronger the Threat, the More Broadly Defined the Enemy Outgroup -- Radicalization Mechanism III: The Greater the Threat, the Stronger the Demand for Ingroup Loyalty -- Radicalization Mechanism IV: The Greater the Threat, the Greater the Violence Justified to Counter It |
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Rwanda's Extraordinary Amplifiers -- 3.7 Limitations of War as an Explanation of Genocide -- 3.8 Rethinking Radicalization and the Radio -- Radicalization May Be a Consequence as well as Cause of Violence -- Rwanda's Hate Radio Broadcasts May Have Had a Limited Impact -- 4 Threat and Opportunity: The Dangers of Freedom -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Context for Liberalization -- Rwanda's Unusual Baseline Characteristics -- 4.3 The Impact of Liberalization on Rwanda -- Liberalization at the National Level -- Liberalization at the Local Level -- Southern Rwanda: War Distant, Party Politics Intense |
| Summary |
Uses unique field data to offer a rigorous explanation of how Rwanda's genocide occurred and why Rwandans participated in it |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108870696 |
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1108870694 |
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