Publications

Peer-Reviewed Books

Burnet, Jennie E. 2012. Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
More information: http://www.jennieburnet.org/genocide-lives-in-us/
Publisher’s page: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4931.htm

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Bauer, Gretchen, and Jennie E. Burnet. (2013) Gender quotas, democracy, and women’s representation in Africa: Some insights from democratic Botswana and autocratic Rwanda.” Women’s Studies International Forum. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.05.012.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2012). Sexual Violence, Female Agencies, and Sexual Consent: Complexities of Sexual Violence in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. African Studies Review 55 (2):97-118.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2011). Women Have Found Respect: Gender Quotas, Symbolic Representation and Female Empowerment in Rwanda. Politics & Gender 7 (3):303-334.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2009). La injusticia de la justicia local: verdad, reconciliación y venganza en Ruanda. Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio 3(noviembre):24-46.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2008). The Injustice of Local Justice: Truth, Reconciliation and Revenge in Rwanda. Journal of Genocide Studies and Prevention 3(2):173-193.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2008). Gender Balance and the Meanings of Women in Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda. African Affairs 107(428):361-386.

Book Chapters

Burnet, Jennie E. (2015). “Rape as a Weapon of Genocide: Gender, Patriarchy, and Sexual Violence in Rwanda.” In Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey edited by Amy E. Randall, 140-161. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2015). “Genocide, Evil and Human Agency: The Concept of Evil in Rwandan Explanations of the 1994 Genocide.” In Evil in Africa, edited by William Olsen, 75-90. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2015). “Sorting and Suffering: Social Classification in Post-Genocide Rwanda.” In Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives, edited by Jan Shetler, 206-230. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2014). “Sexual Violence, Female Agencies, and Sexual Consent: Complexities of Sexual Violence in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.” In Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies, edited by Doris Buss, Joanne Lebert, Blair Rutherford, Donna Sharkey, & Obijiofor Aginam, 131-144. New York: Routledge.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2012). Women’s Empowerment and Cultural Change in Rwanda. In Susan Franceschet, Mona Lena Krook, & Jennifer Piscopo (Eds.) The Impact of Quotas on Women’s Descriptive, Substantive, and Symbolic Representation. Pp. 190-207. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2010). (In)justice: Truth, Reconciliation and Revenge in Rwanda’s Gacaca. In Alexander Laban Hinton (Ed.) Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence. Pp. 95-118. New Brunswick, New Jersey:  Rutgers University Press.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2009). Whose Genocide? Whose Truth? Representations of victim and perpetrator in Rwanda. In Alex Hinton & Kevin O’Neill (Eds.)  Genocide: Truth, Memory and Representation. Pp. 80-100. Durham, North Carolina:  Duke University Press. 

Burnet, Jennie E. (2007). Rwanda. In Countries at the Crossroads 2007: A Survey of Democratic Governance. Pp. 571-597. Freedom House (Ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.

Burnet, Jennie E. and RISD. (2003). Culture, Practice, and Law:  Women’s Access to Land in Rwanda.  In L. M. Wanyeki (Ed.) Women and Land in Africa: Culture, Religion and Realizing Women’s Rights. Pp. 176-206. New York: Zed Books.

Burnet, Jennie E. (1996).  The Good Fight: Human Rights Advocacy.  In The Future is Ours.  John W. Bartlett, ed.  New York: Henry Holt and Co.

Peer Reviewed Working Papers

Burnet, Jennie E. and Jeanne d’Arc Kanakuze. “The 2008 gender-based violence law and gender parity in primary and secondary education in Rwanda.” ESID Working Papers, no. 94 (February 2018): 1-66.  http://www.effective-states.org/wp-content/uploads/working_papers/final-pdfs/esid_wp_94_burnet_kanakuze.pdf

Peer Reviewed Encyclopedia Essays

Burnet, Jennie E. 2016. “Rwanda (Burundi).” In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, edited by John Stone, Rutledge M. Dennis, Polly S. Rizova, Anthony D. Smith & Xiaosho Hou, 12 pp. London: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

 Policy Papers & Research Reports

Burnet, Jennie E. (2005). Women’s Health: Attitudes and Practices in North Carolina. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation (June).

Burnet, Jennie E. (2002).  Policy Initiative for Child-Headed Households and other Vulnerable Children in Rwanda.  Kigali:  CARE International in Rwanda (August).

Burnet, Jennie E. and Agnès Mujawayezu. (2002). Gender, Ethnicity and other forms of Diversity in CARE-Rwanda’s Personnel and Programs.  Kigali:  CARE International in Rwanda (April).

Burnet, Jennie E. and RISD. (2001). Culture, Practice, and Law:  Women’s Access to Land in Rwanda.  Kigali:  Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development.

Oldham, Linda, Jennie E. Burnet, and Scholas Murebwayire. (2001). Mid-Term Evaluation of the Local Governance Initiative.  Kigali:  Africare-Rwanda.

Burnet, Jennie E. and Jacqueline Mukandamage. (2000). Réseau des Femmes Oeuvrant pour le Dévéloppement Rural:  An Organizational Case Study.  Washington, DC:  Center for Development Information and Evaluation, United States Agency for International Development.

 Other Articles

Burnet, Jennie E. (2004). Conceiving Unity in Rwanda. Anthropology News 45(9).

Burnet, Jennie E. (2004). Writing Grant Proposals (Give Me the Money!)  Chapel Hill:  UNC-CH Writing Center.  Electronic document, http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/grant_proposals.html, accessed September 21, 2004.

Book Reviews

Burnet, Jennie E. (2017). Review of From War to Genocide: Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990-1994, by André Guichaoua, and translated by Don E. Webster. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 7(2):119-122.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2016). Review of Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa: The Persistence of Violence,by Meredith Turshen. Journal of Modern African Studies 55(1):159-160.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2016).  Review of Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda, by Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel. Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women’s & Gender Studies. 15:165-168.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2015). Review of Women and War in Rwanda: Gender, Media and the Representation of Genocide, by Georgina Holmes. African Studies Quarterly 15(3):75-76.

Burnet, Jennie E. (2013). Review of Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood, by Marc Sommers. Journal of Anthropological Research 69:298-300.