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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797658703321

Titolo

Mugabeism? [[electronic resource] ] : History, Politics, and Power in Zimbabwe / / edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

1-137-54346-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

African Histories and Modernities, , 2634-5773

Disciplina

968.9105/1

Soggetti

Africa—History

Africa—Politics and government

Africa, Sub-Saharan—History

Economic development

African History

African Politics

History of Sub-Saharan Africa

Development Studies

Zimbabwe History 1980-

Zimbabwe Politics and government 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Mugabeism and entanglements of history, politics and power in the making of Zimbabwe / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. -- ; Part 1: Mugabeism, economic nationalism and pan-Africanism. Robert Mugabe: an intellectual manqué and his moments of meaning / David B. Moore -- Mugabe on land, indigenization and development / Alois S. Mlambo -- Mugabe's neo-sultanist rule: beyond the veil of pan-Africanism / Gorden Moyo. -- ; Part 2: Diplomacy, solidarity and power. Intransigent diplomat: Robert Mugabe and his western diplomacy / Timothy Scarnecchia -- Sheriff in the club of dictators?: Robert Mugabe's role in the politics of Southern Africa / Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Joseph Jakarasi -- In the footsteps of Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Namibian solidarity with Mugabe's populism: (bogus) anti-imperialism in practice / Henning Melber -- Robert Mugabe: the will to power and



crisis of the paradigm of war / Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. -- ; Part 3: Masculinity, gender and corruption. Mugabe the man-nation: two views of culture and history in the construction of Zimbabwe / Robert Muponde -- Grappling with Mugabe's masculinist politics in Zimbabwe: a gender perspective / Rudo B. Gaidzanwa -- Corruption and the comrades: Mugabe and the 'fight' against corruption in Zimbabwe / Wesley Mwatwara and Joseph Mujere. -- ; Part 4: Global coloniality, racism and militarism. Mugabe's land reform and the provocation of global white anti-black racism / Kenneth Tafira -- A Fanonian reading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as colonial subject / Tendayi Sithole -- African leadership in the age of Euro-North American-centric modernity: a decolonial critique of Robert Mugabe / Morgan Ndlovu -- Mugabe and the military alliance: Zimbabwe's prospects of democratic transition / Kudzai Matereke and Niveen el Moghazy.

Sommario/riassunto

What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial perspectives. It is concerned with capturing various meanings of Mugabeism.