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The Dilemma of Recognition

Experienced Reality of Ethnicised Politics in Rwanda and Burundi

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  1. Carla Schraml

    1. Marburg, Germany

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  • On the Experienced Reality of Ethnicised Politics in Rwanda and Burundi

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-14
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  2. Introduction: The ‘Dilemma of Recognition’. On the ‘Experienced Reality’ of Ethnicised Politics in Rwanda and Burundi

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 15-25

  3. The Cases: Rwanda and Burundi

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 27-57

  4. Procedural Principals

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 59-70

  5. Institution and ‘Institutional Engineering’ as ‘Experienced Reality’

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 71-78

  6. Ethnic Categories: Institutions Defined by Descent

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 79-90

  7. The Institutions of Politicised Ethnicity and Ethnicised Politics: Inclusion and Exclusion Based on Ethnic Categories

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 91-106

  8. ‘Denial of’ versus ‘Power Sharing along’ Ethnic Cleavages: Ethnicised Politics and the ‘Dilemma of Recognition’

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 107-117

  9. Experienced Constructed and Essentialist Ethnicity

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 119-131

  10. Politicised Ethnicity as ‘Experienced Reality’

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 133-146

  11. The ‘Dilemma of Recognition’: Diverging Realities of Ethnicised Politics

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 147-166

  12. Concluding Thoughts: Why Ethnicity? Whose Recognition? What Dilemma?

    • Carla Schraml
    Pages 167-187

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 189-200
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Marburg, Germany

    Carla Schraml

About the author

Dr. Carla Schraml was a member of the research staff at the Department of Sociology, Philipps-Universität Marburg.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Dilemma of Recognition

  • Book Subtitle: Experienced Reality of Ethnicised Politics in Rwanda and Burundi

  • Authors: Carla Schraml

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19405-9

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-19404-2Published: 11 May 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-19405-9Published: 08 June 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 200

  • Topics: Comparative Politics

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