Mugabeism? : history, politics, and power in Zimbabwe / edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

African histories and modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-2019.

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel.

Political leadership--Zimbabwe.

Political leadership.

Zimbabwe--History--1980-.

Zimbabwe.

History.

Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 319 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-297) and index.

ISBN:

9781137543448

1137543442

OCLC:

903812669