ISBN:
9783531194059
Language:
English
Pages:
200 p.
Series Statement:
Springer VS research
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.80096757
Keywords:
Minorities -- Political activity -- Rwanda
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Minorities -- Political activity -- Burundi
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Rwanda -- Ethnic relations
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Burundi -- Ethnic relations
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Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 1994-
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Burundi -- Politics and government -- 1993-
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Minorities ; Political activity ; Rwanda
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Minorities ; Political activity ; Burundi
;
Rwanda ; Ethnic relations
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Burundi ; Ethnic relations
;
Rwanda ; Politics and government ; 1994-
;
Burundi ; Politics and government ; 1993-
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Electronic books
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
How can the salience of ethnicity in Rwandan and Burundian politics be overcome? How can this salience be approached analytically? And why, exactly, is it that it is potentially conflict-prone? This book gives answers to these questions on the basis of what Rwandan and Burundian interviewees expressed as taken for granted and real. In particular, it focuses on different political institutional models, and how they help to overcome an ethnic interpretation of political and social exclusion. Despite the diverging institutional approaches to dealing with ethnic cleavages, the qualitative analysis shows that political and social exclusion, in particular the distribution of power, are interpreted in ethnic terms in both countries. Focusing on notions taken for granted by Rwandan and Burundian interviewees, the book demonstrates, how deeply intertwined ethnicity and politics are in Rwanda and Burundi today.
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface: Caught in a Trap - Speaking as (neither Rwandannor Burundian) 'Scientific Interpreter' about EthnicisedPolitics in Rwanda and Burundi -- 1 Introduction: The 'Dilemma of Recognition'. On the 'Experienced Reality' of Ethnicised Politics in Rwanda and Burundi -- 2 The Cases: Rwanda and Burundi -- 2.1 Approach to Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in Rwanda and Burundi -- 2.2 Ethnicised Post-Independence Political History in Rwanda and Burundi -- 2.3 Two Options, One Intention: Political Institutional Models in Rwanda and Burundi Today -- 2.3.1 Rwanda: 'Denial of' Ethnic Cleavages -- 2.3.2 Burundi: 'Power Sharing along' Ethnic Cleavages -- 3 Procedural Principals -- 3.1 Competing Knowledge -- 3.2 Revealing 'Subjective Theories' -- 3.3 Selective Sampling -- 4 Institution and 'Institutional Engineering' as 'Experienced Reality' -- 4.1 '(New)Institutionalism' and the Notion of Institution -- 4.2 The 'Institutional Engineering'-Debate and the Notion of Institution -- 4.3 Institution as 'Experienced Reality' -- 5 Ethnic Categories: Institutions Defined by Descent -- 5.1 Essentialism as an Empty 'Category of Analysis' -- 5.2 Ethnic Categories as 'Invented' and Negligible -- 5.3 Ethnic Categories as Institutions Defined by Descent -- 6 The Institutions of Politicised Ethnicity and Ethnicised Politics: Inclusion and Exclusion Based on Ethnic Categories -- 6.1 Salience of Ethnicity in Politics -- 6.2 Politicised Ethnicity and Ethnicised Politics -- 6.3 Ethnic Conflict within the Context of Politicised Ethnicity and Ethnicised Politics -- 7 'Denial of' versus 'Power Sharing along' Ethnic Cleavages: Ethnicised Politics and the 'Dilemma of Recognition' -- 7.1 'Denial of' versus 'Power Sharing along' Ethnic Cleavages -- 7.2 Ethnicised Politics: 'Power Sharing' versus 'Denial' -- 7.3 The 'Dilemma of Recognition'.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Marburg, 2011
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