Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Socio-Political Transition from Mugabe to Mnangagwa

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
Contributors
Introduction: The 2017 Coup and Cultures of Change in Zimbabwe
	Succession Politics and Complex Transitions: History Repeating Itself?
	Cultures of Change: Discursive Politics of Dispensations and Legacies
	Summaries
	Notes
	References
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
	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