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To Save Heaven and Earth
Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide
Jennie E. Burnet (Author)
9781501767104
Hardback, published 15 January 2023
312 pages, 1 b&w halftone, 4 maps - 4 Maps - 1 Halftones, black and white
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg
Much more than any other study of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, this volume examines the profoundly significant phenomenon of courage. Jennie E. Burnet's fine analysis goes beyond structural frameworks and provides an incremental, interdisciplinary, and theoretical approach to the subject. This book is one that genocide, social network, and scholars studying Rwanda have been waiting for, and those interested in development, violence, or prosocial behavior will be grateful to read. Students will be drawn to the beautifully written stories and clear arguments. I look forward to Burnet's book paving the way forward for a new era of rescue studies. This is an outstanding work of scholarship—pulling together incredibly well the ever-shifting constellations of choices, circumstances, relationships, and locations in the context of the Rwandan genocide, and demonstrating how these elements worked together to explain the operational and decisional aspects of rescue work Burnet's fine analysis goes beyond structural frameworks and provides an incremental, interdisciplinary, and theoretical approach to the subject.
In To Save Heaven and Earth, Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political ideology, ethnic hatred, or prejudice. By shifting away from these classic typologies of genocide studies and focusing instead on hundreds of thousands of discrete acts that unfold over time, Burnet highlights the ways that complex decisions and behaviors emerge in the social, political, and economic processes that constitute a genocide. To Save Heaven and Earth explores external factors, such as geography, local power dynamics, and genocide timelines, as well as the internal states of mind and motivations of those who effected rescues. Framed within the interdisciplinary scholarship of genocide studies and rooted in cultural anthropology methodologies, this book presents stories of heroism and of the good done amid the evil of a genocide that nearly annihilated Rwandan Tutsi and decimated the Hutu and Twa who were opposed to the slaughter.
Introduction
1. Dynamics of Violence in the Gray Zone
2. Agency and Morality in the Gray Zone
3. Muslim Exceptionalism and Genocide
4. Resistance, Rescue, and Religion
5. The Border as Salvation and Snare
6. At the Margins of the State
7. Altruism, Agency, and Martyrdom in the Gray Zone
Conclusion