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010			_a 2019014861
020			_a9781108499347 (hardback)
020			_a9781108713412 (pbk.)
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050	0	0	_aDT450.85 _b.R87 2019
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100	1		_aRussell, Aidan, _d1985- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPolitics and violence in Burundi : _bthe language of truth in an emerging state / _cAidan Russell.
263			_a1909
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2019.
300			_axii, 311pages _billustrations _c23cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAfrican studies series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Talking politics and watching the border -- Prologue, 1796-1959: People of the land -- 1959-1961: 'To see the son of a king' -- Ukuri ni kumwe: talking truth -- Ibigendajoro: rebels in the name of the king -- 1961-1967: 'A most total anarchy' -- Abanyabihuha: talking loyalty -- Ukuri n'ubutungane: the fate of the bourgmestres -- 1968-1972: 'Please send me a car to take them away' -- Politiques bw'insaku: talking vigilance -- Couper tout ce qui dépasse: truth and violence -- Conclusion: the court of Baribuka.
520			_a"The postcolonial state in Burundi emerged through talk of truth and acts of violence. Beginning with the first democratic contest in late 1959, this book examines decolonisation as a search for certainty over the nature of postcolonial community and authority, seen from the vantage point of two communes on the border with Rwanda. While ethnicity was largely absent from early political struggles, by 1972 the postcolony was realised in a genocidal repression. Yet from democracy to genocide people and state spoke about politics in the language of truth: declarations of official truths, discussions of rumour, and riddles of political persuasion. Through these idioms of truth-speaking, the book examines differing conceptions over the nature of authority and its relationship to its subjects, the possibilities and closures of postcolonial citizenship, the deep hostility and suspicion of successive regimes towards a borderland population, and their performances of loyalty, petition and vigilance in response. It shows how politics was made between peasants and state elites, the nature of violence in the processes of decolonisation, and how the language of truth continues to matter today"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aDecolonization _zBurundi.
650		0	_aPolitical violence _zBurundi _xHistory.
651		0	_aBurundi _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
651		0	_aBurundi _xEthnic relations.
830		0	_aAfrican studies series.
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