The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe: From Mugabe to Mnangagwa 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030477325,9783030477332,3030477320,3030477339

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• ISBN-10: 3030477339
• ISBN-13: 9783030477332
• Author: Sabelo J. NdlovuGatsheni, Pedzisai Ruhanya

This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but resilient ‘nationalist-military’ alliance crafted during the anti-colonial liberation struggle in the 1970s. Inevitably, violence, misogyny and masculinity are constitutive of the political culture. Economically speaking, the culture is that of a bureaucratic, parasitic, primitive accumulation and corruption, which include invasion and emptying of state coffers by a self-styled ‘Chimurenga aristocracy.’ However, this Chimurenga aristocracy is not cohesive, as the politics that led to Robert Mugabe’s ousting from power was preceded by dirty and protracted internal factionalism. At the center of the factional politics was the ‘first family’:Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace Mugabe. This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the complex contemporary politics in Zimbabwe, taking seriously such issues as gender, misogyny, militarism, violence, media, identity, modes of accumulation, the ethnicization of politics, attempts to open lines of credit and FDI, national healing, and the national question as key variables not only of a complete political culture but also of difficult transitional politics.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Transition in Zimbabwe: From Robert Gabriel Mugabe to Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa: A Repetition Without Change

Part I. Colonialism, Nationalism and Political Culture

2. The Political Culture of Zimbabwe: Continuities and Discontinuities

3. The Zimbabwean National Question: Key Components and Unfinished Business

4. Opposition Politics and the Culture of Polarisation in Zimbabwe, 1980–2018

5. Understanding Zimbabwe’s Political Culture: Media and Civil Society

Part II. Identity, Militarisation and Transitional Politics

6. The Identity Politics Factor in Zimbabwe’s Transition Politics

7. The Ethnicization of Political Mobilization in Zimbabwe: The Case of Pro-Mthwakazi Movements

8. The Militarisation of State Institutions in Zimbabwe, 2002–2017

Part III. Social Media, Democracy and Political Discourse

9. The Media and Politics in the Context of the “Third Chimurenga” in Zimbabwe

10. Social Media and the Concept of Dissidence in Zimbabwean Politics

11. The Tabloidization of Political News in Zimbabwe: End of Quality Press?

Part IV. Post-Mugabe Economy, Gender and Operation Restore Legacy

12. Primitive Accumulation and Mugabe’s Extroverted Economy: What Now Under the Second Republic?

13. The Idea of a New Zimbabwe Post-Mugabe

14. Misogyny, Sexism and Hegemonic Masculinity in Zimbabwe’s Operation Restore Legacy

15. Foreign Direct Investment in the Post-Mugabe Era

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