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Contested Liberations, Transitions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe Encounters with Post-Colonial (Counter)Cultures (2000-2020).

This book examines (counter)cultures of liberation, transition and the crisis in Zimbabwe, focusing on the ways in which culture permeates hegemonic and counter-hegemonic constructions of what and whose liberations matter especially in the context of political transition.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Nyambi, Oliver
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2024.
Series:African social studies series.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 01 Introduction: the Crisis of Liberation and Contested Transitions
  • 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
  • 6 The 2017 Coup: Ambiguous Transitions and the Politics of Liberation from Liberation
  • 7 Outline of Chapters
  • 02 (De-)limiting Gender and Sexuality: Queering Liberati
  • 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
  • 03 Expatriated Liberations: Re-living a Settler Nation in Memory in Rhodesians
  • 1 "Rhodesians Worldwide": Re-living 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
  • 04 Liberating Liberation: Language, Power and the Politics of the
  • 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
  • 05 "Mother of our nation": the First Lady and Gendered Politic
  • 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
  • 06 Revis(ion)ing Transition: Douglas Rogers's Two Weeks in November and the Politics of Witnessing
  • 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"

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