The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe

Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Mangena, Tendai; Ncube, Gibson; Nyambi, Oliver

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Produktbeschreibung

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. It will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Language/Discourse Studies, African politics and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9781032028163
• ISBN-10: 1032028165
• Artikelnr.: 71237539

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Negotiating the Zimbabwean crisis post-Mugabe (Gibson Ncube,
Oliver Nyambi and Tendai Mangena) Part 1: Negotiating memories of Mugabe
and the past Chapter 1: Burying or erasing Mugabe? A crisis of memory in
the New Dispensation (Tendai Mangena and Gibson Ncube) Chapter 2: Raising
her bones: Contextualising the politicisation of Nehanda's legacy in the
post-Mugabe era (Shingi Mavima) Chapter 3: (Un)settling bones: Abstruse
liberations and re-gendered commemorations in Panashe Chigumadzi's These
bones will rise again (Oliver Nyambi) Chapter 4: The toponymic undoing of
Grace Mugabe and the G40 narrative in the New Dispensation: A political
semiotics exegesis (Zvinashe Mamvura, Mickson Mazuruse and Innocent
Mupandasekwa) Chapter 5: Rituals of revolution? Place renaming and the
crisis of transition in Zimbabwe (Dorcas Zuvalinyenga) Part 2: Discourses
of transition and legitimation in popular spaces Chapter 6: The discursive
legitimation of the 2017 coup in Zimbabwe's mainstream newspapers
(Mphathisi Ndlovu and Vimbai B. Chinembiri) Chapter 7: The mediatised image
of Robert Mugabe during the 2017 Zimbabwean coup (Hugh Mangeya) Chapter 8:
Social media, COVID-19 and the 'Second Republic' in Zimbabwe: Memes as
instruments of subversion on President Mnangagwa's Facebook page (Rodwell
Makombe) Chapter 9: Song, patriotism and (il)legitimacy: The politics of
transition in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe (Tavengwa Gwekwerere) Chapter 10:
Politics, protest and music in the Second Republic: The subversive
aesthetics of Winky D's post-coup songs (Doreen R. Tivenga) Part 3:
Discursive interventions of political transition Chapter 11:
Military-assisted transition, the New Dispensation and the facade of change
in Zimbabwe post-Mugabe (Wesley Mwatara and Munyaradzi Nyakudya) Chapter
12: Bounded reasoning and the complexity of change in governance:
reflections on post-2017 Zimbabwe (Dennis Masaka) Chapter 13: The New
Dispensation and the Second Republic: Discoursing transition in the
post-Mugabe era (Tsiidzai Matsika) Chapter 14: Semanticising the 'new' in
the New Dispensation: Discourse and the politics of nationalist renewal in
post-2017 Zimbabwe (Sambulo Ndlovu)