| Description |
1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Series |
African Social Studies Series ; v.48 |
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African social studies series.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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' |
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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 |
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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" |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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6 Unusual Alliances, Foils of History and the Narrative Legitimation of the Coup |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004682979 |
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900468297X |
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