The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces (eBook, ePUB)

Genealogies, Discourses, and Epistemic Struggles
Redaktion: Mlotshwa, Khanyile; Ndlovu, Mphathisi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces: Genealogies, Discourses, and Epistemic Struggles establishes a debate and dialogue between critical and post-/de-colonial approaches in the study of subalternity in online media representations. Editors Khanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu curate chapters that deal specifically with the intersectional subalternity of Matabeleland, a political and geographical region in the Southwest part of Zimbabwe comprising of three provinces: Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, and Bulawayo metropolitan province. The subalternity of this region emerges in politics and popular culture, including media, as intersectional in terms of ethnicity, region, gender, class, and beyond. This book argues that in online spaces the liberatory politics of Matabeleland emerges as trapped in coloniality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793645265
• Artikelnr.: 64101381

Autorenporträt

Khanyile Mlotshwa is a Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Global Scholarly Dialogue Programme research fellow. Mphathisi Ndlovu is research fellow of journalism at Stellenbosch University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Khanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu
PART I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues
1. Marginal Societies Online: A Critical Appreciation of Genocide and its
Politics in Cyberspace
Shepherd Mpofu
2. Counter-Memory, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Discursive Constructions of
Matabeleland in Digital Spaces
Mphathisi Ndlovu
3: The Pitfalls of Matabeleland as a (Digital) Work of Memory
Khanyile Mlotshwa
4: Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict
Matabeleland
Ntombizakhe Moyo-Nyoni
PART II: Minorities of Minorities
5: Hidden in Public: The Symbolic Annihilation of the Khoisan People in
Zimbabwe's Public Sphere
Christina Ncube and Khanyile Mlotshwa
6: The Batonga Representations in Matabeleland Imaginations
Mike Mutale
7: Kalanga Activism and the Imaginations of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces
Nkosini Aubrey Khupe
8: Theorizing Online Female Journalism as Border Practices in the Case of
Amakhosikazi Media, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Khanyile Mlotshwa and Busi Bhebhe
PART III: Performing Subalternity in Digital Space
9: Performing Subalternity Online: A Critical Study of the Centre for
Innovation and Technology (CITE)
Samkeliso Ncube and Mphathisi Ndlovu
10: Interrogating Cyber-Cultures and Critical Consciousness Development in
Matabeleland
Pretty Nxumalo
11: The Communicative Construction of Ndebele Identity in Radio Mthwakazi
Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
PART IV: Ndebele Nationalism in Digital Spaces
12: Beyond Provincialising a Nation Without a State: Representations of
Matabeleland in Umthwakazi Review Digital Space
Thembelani Moyo
13: 'The Colonized Mean Little to the Colonizer': The Digital Lives of
Colonial Diplomacy
Blondie Beatrice Ndebele
14: The (Digital) Return of the Ndebele Monarchy?
Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga
15: Photographing the 'Nation' in the Digital Age: A Case of Matabeleland
Discourses on Social Media Platforms
Lungile Augustine Tshuma and Lorraine Phiri
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