• DOI:10.1080/1369801X.2014.993332
Corpus ID: 142378403

Despite the Terrors of Typologies

@article{James2015DespiteTT,
  title={Despite the Terrors of Typologies},
  author={P. James},
  journal={Interventions},
  year={2015},
  volume={17},
  pages={174 - 195}
}

• P. James
• Published 2015
• Sociology
• Interventions

Understanding how the identity of a Hutu person is different from a Tutsi and why nearly a million people were murdered in the name of this difference is not handled adequately in the current literature. Drawing on parts of the world as different as Rwanda and Sri Lanka, this essay takes up this theme through three main arguments. Firstly, categorizations about identity, even when hardened into ugly typologies by processes of colonization or state formation, are always full of tensions and… Expand