Review
The path to genocide in Rwanda: security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state: by Omar Shahabudin McDoom, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, African Studies Book no. 152, 434 pp., hardback, £75.00, US$99.99, ISBN 9781108491464; e-book: £56.92, US$80.00, ISBN 9781108870696
| Title: | The path to genocide in Rwanda: security, opportunity, and authority in an ethnocratic state: by Omar Shahabudin McDoom, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, African Studies Book no. 152, 434 pp., hardback, £75.00, US$99.99, ISBN 9781108491464; e-book: £56.92, US$80.00, ISBN 9781108870696 |
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| Authors: | Reyntjens, Filip1 (AUTHOR) filip.reyntjens@uantwerpen.be |
| Source: | Review of African Political Economy. Dec 2021, Vol. 48 Issue 170, p667-668. 2p. |
| Abstract: | This is true, but McDoom's contribution to understanding the genocide against the Tutsi is seminal, and future scholars of Rwanda, and more broadly of comparative genocide studies, will ignore it at their peril. McDoom addresses two central questions: (i) what are the circumstances that gave rise to the genocide? The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda has understandably been a widely researched subject. [Extracted from the article] |
| Subject Terms: | Rwandan Genocide, 1994, State power, Africana studies, Criminal jurisdiction |
| Geographic Terms: | Rwanda |
| Company/Entity: | Cambridge University Press 005909296 |
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| ISSN: | 03056244 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03056244.2021.1969132 |
| Database: | Business Source Complete |