Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe Socio Political Transition from Mugabe to Mnangagwa 1st Edition by Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena, Gibson Ncube ISBN 9781000470284 1000470288

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Author: Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena, Gibson Ncube

Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe Socio Political Transition from Mugabe to Mnangagwa 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I Spectacles of change in the Second Republic

1 The patriotic present: The urgency of now in Zimbabwe’s “New Dispensation”

Introduction

From patriotic history to the patriotic present

The architectural mode of the patriotic present

The content of the patriotic present

The patriotic present, engagement and future

Conclusion

References

2 The spectacle and semiotics of the presidential scarf in Zimbabwe’s “Second Republic”

Introduction

Theorising object relations

The triumph of Emmerson Mnangagwa over Robert Mugabe

The scarf and the society of spectacle

The scarf as a symbol of innovation

“Enda Unodzosera Scarfa KwaNdunge!” (Go and return the scarf to Ndunge!): Contesting the presidential scarf and notions of newness

Conclusion

References

3 Mugabeism otherwise?: A critical reflection on toxic leadership and Zimbabwe’s “New Dispensation”

Introduction

Mugabeism, Zanuism and toxic leadership

Corruption, state violence and human rights violations

Conclusion

References

4 Theatres of struggle in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe

Introduction

Context and rationale of the study

The framework: Script, staging and performance

The script: Towards generating global support

The city as a place of performance: Democratising the streets

The spectacle of violence as performance

Conclusion

References

5 Derisive imaginaries of the death and burial of Mugabe and the nascent aesthetics of coercive power in “Second Republic” politics

Introduction

The Second Republic, politics of the corpse and contestations over its meaning and capital

The mediated derision and laughter over Robert Mugabe’s funeral

Conclusion

References

6 The ‘spectre’ of Mugabe: Land, change and discursive politics of dispensations in Zimbabwe

Introduction

The spectre of the past: Negotiating Mugabe(ism) in post-coup land discourse

Land discourse and the politicisation of newness

Land discourse and the politics of dispensations

Conclusion

Notes

References

Part II Tropes of ambivalent “transitions”

7 “We must aspire to be a clean nation”: Ambivalences of transition in “New Dispensation” metaphors of dirt

Introduction

Methodological and theoretical underpinnings

From dirt to cleanliness, troping political change

The persistence of literal and metaphorical dirt in the Second Republic

(Dis)connecting from Robert Mugabe’s past: Rhetorical and other strategies

Conclusion

References

8 Gukurahundi revisited in the “Second Republic”: Trauma, memory and violence in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of stone

Introduction

Contextualising Gukurahundi

Theorising trauma, memory and remembering

Gukurahundi in the Second Republic: Literature and the creation of counter-publics and counter-archives

Conclusion

References

9 Spectacles of transition: Texts and counter-texts in the historiography of Zimbabwe in transition

Introduction

The haunting legacies of terror

The political lives of dead bodies

The productive duplicity and indexicality of rumours

Weaving the mythical and the real

Conclusion

References

10 A déjà vu of Orwellian proportions: Re-reading Animal Farm in the context of Zimbabwean politics of change

Introduction

Theoretical framework

Crisis of change and change of crisis in Zimbabwe

Rhetoric of entitlement: ‘We died for this country’

Ambivalence in the Second Republic narrative post-coup

Conclusion

References

Part III Dis/continuing political cultures

11 Narrativising dis/continuities in ZANU PF intra-power politics

Introduction

ZANU PF intra-party factionalism and the militarisation of the state

Fractured identity and false periodisation in Zimbabwean politics

Counter/alternative narratives and twitterfare in Zimbabwe

Conclusion

References

12 A nation burdened by an unappeased ngozi?: A ‘folk’ cultural perspective on Zimbabwe’s stagnation

Introduction

Research methodology

Framing the ngozi theory of history

Ngozi trepidation to individuals and families

Ngozi at the macro-level

Origins of the Gukurahundi ngozi

The colonial ngozi

Conclusion

References

13 In and out of court: Zimbabwe’s perennial framing of opposition politics as ‘nuisance needing judiciary pacification’

Introduction

Origins of court and jail

The First Republic and the adoption of colonial strategies

The Second Republic and the jinx of court and jail

Conclusion

References

14 Auxillia Mnangagwa’s “Amaihood” and the cultural politics of the Zimbabwean first lady in the “New Dispensation”

Introduction

Methodology

Theoretical underpinnings

Of motherhood and cultural politics

Performing national Amaihood

Grace Mugabe

Auxillia Mnangagwa

Conclusion

References

Index

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