Contested Liberations, Transitions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe : : Encounters with Post-colonial (Counter)Cultures (2000-2020) / / Oliver Nyambi.

• Superior document: African Social Studies Series ; 48
• VerfasserIn: Nyambi, Oliver,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African Social Studies Series ; 48; Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 pages)

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 prescrib...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: the Crisis of Liberation and Contested Transitions in Zimbabwe
•  1 Liberation and (Counter)Cultures of Liberations
•  2 Context: beyond Political and Politicised Liberations
•  3 Some Notes on Cultures and Countercultures of the Zimbabwean Crisis
•  4 The Zimbabwean Crisis
•  5 ‘Patriotic’ Countercultures of Liberation: Speaking Back to Opposition 18  6 The 2017 Coup: Ambiguous Transitions and the Politics of Liberation from Liberation
•  7 Outline of Chapters
• 2 (De-)limiting Gender and Sexuality: Queering Liberation in a Conservative Culture
•  1 (De)limiting Sexualities: the Cultural Politics of ‘unliberating’ Gender in Zimbabwe
•  2 Queer Liberations, Cultural Hegemony and Ambiguous Democratic Dispensations
•  3 “[T]he Court of the People”? Hate Speech and the Fear of Queerness in Popular Culture
•  4 Revising the Sexuality of Citizenship
•  5 Micro-Celebrities and Emancipatory Discourses of Recognition
•  6 Performing Rogue: Re-mattering the Transed Body in Virtual Public Spheres
• 3 Expatriated Liberations: Re-living a Settler Nation in Memory in Rhodesians Worldwide Contact Magazine
•  1 “Rhodesians Worldwide”: Re-living (in) a Settler Nation in Memory
•  2 “Orphans of the empire”? Post-Nation Rhodesians and Neo-Rhodesian Particularism
•  3 Loss, Neo-Rhodesian Melancholia and the Colonial Encounter as ‘achievement’
•  4 Strategies of Becoming Neo-Rhodesia: Re-presenting the Rhodesian Military
•  5 Conclusion
• 4 Liberating Liberation: Language, Power and the Politics of the 2017 Militarised ‘transition’
•  1 “The Current Purging … Must Stop Forthwith”: the Political Context
•  2 Politics in Grammars of Mis/Recognition
•  3 Revising and Re-visioning Patriotic History in Chiwenga’s ‘coup speech’
•  4 “We are only targeting criminals around him”? Language and the Discursive Politics of Engendering Transition in Moyo’s Coup Speech
•  5 The Discursive Politics of Fear in Lieutenant General Moyo’s Coup Speech
•  6 Conclusion
• 5 “Mother of our nation”: the First Lady and Gendered Politics of Zimbabwean Dispensations
•  1 Auxillia Mnangagwa, Difference and the New Politics of Care
•  2 The Temporality of Power: Social Media, the First Lady and Spectacles of New Care
•  3 Unbecoming Grace Mugabe: Social Media and Auxillia Mnangagwa’s Redemptive Humility
•  4 Christian Amaihood, Politics and the ‘new’ Moral Ethic of Care
•  5 Cultures of Humility: the Political Economy of Auxillia Mnangagwa’s Visualised Ordinariness
• 6 Revis(ion)ing Transition: Douglas Rogers’s Two Weeks in November and the Politics of Witnessing the Zimbabwean Coup
•  1 The “white man’s burden”? Rogers and the Politics of Writing Zimbabwe While White
•  2 Rogers, Two Weeks and the ‘truth’ of Non-Fiction
•  3 When the Event Story Becomes the Human Story
•  4 Tom Ellis and the Expatriated Coup: Carving Space for White Heroism in the Zimbabwean Transition
•  5 “All I want is good governance”: the Moral Pull of Zimbabwe’s “second independence”
•  6 Unusual Alliances, Foils of History and the Narrative Legitimation of the Coup
•  7 Conclusion
• 7 Mugabe, Liberation and the Necropolitics of His Death and Burial
•  1 “the man-nation”: Mugabe and Mugabeism in Life and Death
•  2 Memorialising Mugabe: History, Politics, Places and Spaces
•  3 Monumenting Mugabe: Funerary Hagiographies and the Political Semiotics of the Mausoleum
•  4 ‘Body’ Politics and Semiotics
•  5 A Flagging Nationalism and State Negotiations of Mugabe’s Haunting Corpse
•  6 Wafa Wanaka : Settling Mugabe, (un)Settling (il)Legitimacy
•  7 Conclusion: (de)Stabilising Public (Counter)Memories of Mugabe
• 8 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.