Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism: Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe (Nationalisms across the Globe) - Softcover

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9783039119769: Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism: Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe (Nationalisms across the Globe)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3039119761 ISBN 13: 9783039119769
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011

Synopsis

At the beginning of 2000, with the launch of the so-called Third Chimurenga, Zimbabwean nationalism revealed some of its most grotesque aspects, resulting in a polarisation of the nation into ‘patriots’ and ‘sell-outs’ and dividing academics into groups such as ‘regime intellectuals’, left-nationalists, left-internationalists, ‘nativists’ and ‘neo-liberals’. Drawing upon the arguments and insights of an array of scholars, many based in Zimbabwe, this book offers a new analysis of the grotesque character of Zimbabwean nationalism, a nationalism that has provoked ambivalent responses locally, regionally and internationally.

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About the Author

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria. He is the author of numerous publications including Do ‘Zimbabweans’ Exist? Trajectories of Nationalism, National Identity Formation and Crisis in a Postcolonial State (Peter Lang, 2009).
James Muzondidya is a Research Manager at the Zimbabwe Institute based in Harare. His main research interests lie in cultural history and identity politics. He is the author of Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe (2005).

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Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3039119761
ISBN 13 
9783039119769
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
422
Editor
Ndlovu-Gatsheni Sabelo J., Muzondidya James