Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Title Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe PDF eBook
Author Oliver Nyambi
Publisher Routledge
Pages 262
Release 2021-11-04
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1000470288

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This book investigates how culture reflects change in Zimbabwe, focusing predominantly on Mnangagwa’s 2017 coup, but also uncovering deeper roots for how renewal and transition are conceived in the country. Since Emmerson Mnangagwa ousted Robert Mugabe in 2017, he has been keen to defi ne his "Second Republic" or "New Dispensation" with a rhetoric of change and a rejection of past political and economic cultures. This multi and inter- disciplinary volume looks to the (social) media, language/ discourse, theatre, images, political speeches and literary fiction and non- fiction to see how they have reflected on this time of unprecedented upheaval. The book argues that themes of self- renewal stretch right back to the formative years of the ZANU PF, and that despite the longevity of Mugabe’s tenure, the latest transition can be seen as part of a complex and protracted layering of postcolonial social, economic and political changes. Providing an innovative investigation of how political change in Zimbabwe is reflected on in cultural texts and products, this book will be of interest to researchers across African history, literature, politics, culture and post- colonial studies.

The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe

The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe
Title The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe PDF eBook
Author Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 469
Release 2020-10-21
Genre History
ISBN 3030477339

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This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but resilient ‘nationalist-military’ alliance crafted during the anti-colonial liberation struggle in the 1970s. Inevitably, violence, misogyny and masculinity are constitutive of the political culture. Economically speaking, the culture is that of a bureaucratic, parasitic, primitive accumulation and corruption, which include invasion and emptying of state coffers by a self-styled ‘Chimurenga aristocracy.’ However, this Chimurenga aristocracy is not cohesive, as the politics that led to Robert Mugabe’s ousting from power was preceded by dirty and protracted internal factionalism. At the center of the factional politics was the ‘first family’:Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace Mugabe. This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the complex contemporary politics in Zimbabwe, taking seriously such issues as gender, misogyny, militarism, violence, media, identity, modes of accumulation, the ethnicization of politics, attempts to open lines of credit and FDI, national healing, and the national question as key variables not only of a complete political culture but also of difficult transitional politics.

The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe

The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe
Title The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe PDF eBook
Author Tendai Mangena
Publisher Routledge
Pages 283
Release 2021-12-30
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1000520994

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This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and ‘newness’ are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. Going beyond the ordinariness of conventional political, human and social science methods, the book offers new and engaging multi-disciplinary approaches that treat discourse and language as important sites to encounter the politics of contested representations of the Zimbabwean crisis in the wake of the 2017 coup. The book centres discourse on new approaches to contestations around the discursive framing of various aspects of the socio-economic and political crisis related to significant political changes in Zimbabwe post-2017. Contributors in this volume, most of whom experienced the complex transition first-hand, examine some of the ways in which language functions as a socio-cultural and political mechanism for creating imaginaries, circulating, defending and contesting conceptions, visions, perceptions and knowledges of the post-Mugabe turn in the Zimbabwean crisis and its management by the "New Dispensation". This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, postcolonial studies, language/discourse studies, African politics and culture.

Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Title Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe PDF eBook
Author Kirk Helliker
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 2021-02-17
Genre Zimbabwe
ISBN 9780367863104

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This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe. Throughout the literature of Zimbabwean studies, a consideration of everyday lives has been limited to informal trading and rarely applied as an analytical framework, despite the importance of understanding crisis-living with reference to the specific character of national crises across the African continent. This edited volume is one of the first in its field to theorise everyday Zimbabwean lives within the context of crisis, with three central themes addressed: urban and rural lives; men, women and HIV; and along and beyond the border. Chapters incorporate topics from child marriage and sexual practices, to climate change and social accountability, encompassing a shift in focus from macro-structures to how farm labourers, students, child-brides and other ordinary people negotiate gender, class and social dynamics within a dominant order. The introductory chapter offers an innovative analytical framing for the empirical chapters which follow, each providing micro-studies based on original qualitative fieldwork by early-career Zimbabwean scholars. Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology and African Studies more broadly.

The Palgrave Handbook of Language and Crisis Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Palgrave Handbook of Language and Crisis Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Title The Palgrave Handbook of Language and Crisis Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa PDF eBook
Author Ernest Jakaza
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 571
Release
Genre
ISBN 303143059X

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Contested Liberations, Transitions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe

Contested Liberations, Transitions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe
Title Contested Liberations, Transitions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe PDF eBook
Author Oliver Nyambi
Publisher BRILL
Pages 328
Release 2024-04-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 900468297X

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How and when does culture enter the discourse on liberation, transition and crisis in an African post-colony such as Zimbabwe? In a deeply polarised nation reeling from a difficult transition and an unrelenting economic crisis, it is increasingly becoming difficult for the ZANU PF regime to prescribe and enforce its monolithic concept of liberation. This book culls, from contemporary (counter)cultures of liberation and transition, the state of liberations in Zimbabwe. It explores how culture has functioned as a complex site where rigid state-authored liberations are legitimated and naturalised but also where they are negotiated, contested and subverted.

Sub-Saharan Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature, and the Media, Volume I

Sub-Saharan Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature, and the Media, Volume I
Title Sub-Saharan Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature, and the Media, Volume I PDF eBook
Author Esther Mavengano
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 376
Release 2023-12-20
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3031353234

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This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics. In an attempt to produce a nuanced and multi-faceted academic dialoguing platform, the two volumes have a particular focus on the aspects of treachery, fear of difference (oppositional politics), and discourses/ semiotics of mis/self- representation. The major aim of the proposed volumes is to contribute toward the often problematised conversations about the unfolding (post)colonial Sub-Saharan world which is topical in decolonial and Pan-African studies. The volumes seek to place political thinking and postcolonial political systems under the scholarly gaze with the view to highlight and enhance the participation of African cross-disciplinary scholarship in the postcolonial political processes of the continent. Most significantly, it is through such probing of the limitations of our own disciplinary perspectives which can help us appreciate the complexity of the postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics. The first volume uses Zimbabwe as a case study, while the second volume broadens to examine postcolonial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly.