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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Modernity, Colonialism, Genocide1. Genocide and Colonialism2. Theorising the Multiplicity tf ModernityPart II: Entangled routes to and through modernity3. Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: A Historical Survey4. 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.ConclusionBibliography

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Modernity, Colonialism, Genocide1. Genocide and Colonialism2. Theorising the Multiplicity tf ModernityPart II: Entangled routes to and through modernity3. Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: A Historical Survey4. 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.ConclusionBibliography

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Modernity, Colonialism, Genocide1. Genocide and Colonialism2. Theorising the Multiplicity tf ModernityPart II: Entangled routes to and through modernity3. Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: A Historical Survey4. 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.ConclusionBibliography