Rwanda – The Ambivalence of Modernity: From Colonialism to Genocide

Balorda, Jasna (2015) Rwanda – The Ambivalence of Modernity: From Colonialism to Genocide. In: Tradition vs Modernity in Contemporary Africa. Czech Association for African Studies, Pilsen, Check Republic.

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Abstract

Within genocide studies, the concept of modernity often seems to be used with a particular kind of bias. In relation to the Holocaust, the literature insists on the modern qualities of the context and the execution, emphasizing the superiorities of modern technology and the cold and calculating nature of instrumental rationality, while the studies of more recent genocides, such as those exploring Rwanda or the fall of Yugoslavia, directly or indirectly point towards what is shown as a more atavistic conflict of a spontaneous, primal nature, thereby de-facto denying the modernity of not only the genocides, but also contexts as such.

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Date Deposited:	18 Jul 2025 11:59
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URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4712

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