Kundai Chirindo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5136432 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kundai Chirindo |
| NOMBRES | Kundai |
| APELLIDO | Chirindo |
| FIRMA | CHIRINDO K |
| AFILIACIONES | Lewis & Clark College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7161-3176 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Toward a global and multispecies pedagogy for Environmental Communication
In June 2025, the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) held its 18th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) at the University of Tasmania in nipaluna/Ho
Afropolitanism and cultural discourse studies
In the opening pages of his essay, Gabriel Opare lays out the question that is the impetus of his inquiry. ‘What might it look like’ he asks, ‘to theorize African technoculture using the continent
Toward an African Critical Orientation
This essay proposes an African orientation to critical work. We begin by locating the need for postcolonial indigenous African bases for critical interventions in the idea of epistemic freedom articulated by African decolonial thinkers along with the postcolonial critique of Frankfurt School and Chicago circle critical theory. Next, we develop a basis for critical interventions in Bantu cosmology by drawing on Omedi Ochieng’s groundwork thesis an…
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance
The Meanings of What Can(not) be Said
Motivated by a seeming disregard of the problem of speech proper in some rhetorical theorizing, I attempt to show the heuristic value of a semiological approach to what can(not) be said to rhetorical inquiry. I argue that attending to the specifics of speech, of its conditions of (im)possibility, is one way to arrive at rhetoric’s multiple compositions. To illustrate these points, I consider the case of what cannot be said from the perspective of…
Precarious publics
Taking up the responses some relatively recent immigrants to the United States had to responses to the 2020 Campaign, this article argues for a postnational perspective on (U.S. American) presidential public address. I develop this argument in two brief sections. First, I demonstrate that rhetorical tropology alone cannot explain the thematic of democracy’s vulnerability that emerged in many people’s reactions to the aftermath of the 2020 preside…
Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life
There is arguably no region of the world that has been the object of more intellectual contempt, intellectual derision, and intellectual disregard than Africa. Scholars have long documented the dark, dreary, pernicious, and primitive “Africanism” some argue has been a (if not the) defining pillar of philosophizing, literature, criticism, and historiography in the North Atlantic for a long time. Emerging along with intentionally misconstrued yet u…
Coda
The COVID-19 pandemic marks a temporal rupture that, amid all the tragedies entailed therein, is deeply entangled with one of the largest uprisings in modern history. Not only has the virus disprop
Theorizing Race and Gender in the Anthropocene
What does it mean to think about race and gender in the Anthropocene? In collaboration with Achille Mbembé’s recent work, this article argues that the Anthropocene requires rethinking race and gender and that retheorizing race and gender might just offer avenues for mitigation and adaptation of/to radical ecological and cultural transformation. To understand how we arrived at the Anthropocene and how race and gender are implicated, the article fi…
Micronations and Postnational Rhetorics
This essay challenges the model of nationalism long favored in rhetorical scholarship by repositioning it as just one among numerous possibilities. To illustrate an alternative perspective, I employ a new materialist approach to postcolonial nations in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, I draw on Wangari Maathai’s later work to juxtapose Westphalian nationalism to micronationalism. I argue that close attention to spatial and material dynamics in t…
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Approaches to the Obama Presidency
Bantu Sociolinguistics in Wangari Maathai's Peacebuilding Rhetoric
This article argues that appreciating the holistic approach Wangari Maathai embraced in both her environmental and peacebuilding work requires attending to the abiding influence of Kikuyu language and culture throughout her long career. To highlight the specific connections between her rhetoric and its cultural contexts, I approach Maathai’s discourse and activism from the perspective of Bantu sociolinguistics. Through a sociolinguistic analysis …
Rhetorical Places
Encounters in space offer rhetoricians important portals for understanding the fullness of what it means to be human. Spatial studies in rhetoric can catalyze an expansion of the discipline’s front
Moved by the Past
Theorizing Race and Gender in the Anthropocene
What does it mean to think about race and gender in the Anthropocene? In collaboration with Achille Mbembé’s recent work, this article argues that the Anthropocene requires rethinking race and gender and that retheorizing race and gender might just offer avenues for mitigation and adaptation of/to radical ecological and cultural transformation. To understand how we arrived at the Anthropocene and how race and gender are implicated, the article fi…
Micronations and Postnational Rhetorics
This essay challenges the model of nationalism long favored in rhetorical scholarship by repositioning it as just one among numerous possibilities. To illustrate an alternative perspective, I employ a new materialist approach to postcolonial nations in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, I draw on Wangari Maathai’s later work to juxtapose Westphalian nationalism to micronationalism. I argue that close attention to spatial and material dynamics in t…
Bantu Sociolinguistics in Wangari Maathai's Peacebuilding Rhetoric
This article argues that appreciating the holistic approach Wangari Maathai embraced in both her environmental and peacebuilding work requires attending to the abiding influence of Kikuyu language and culture throughout her long career. To highlight the specific connections between her rhetoric and its cultural contexts, I approach Maathai’s discourse and activism from the perspective of Bantu sociolinguistics. Through a sociolinguistic analysis …
Rhetorical Places
Encounters in space offer rhetoricians important portals for understanding the fullness of what it means to be human. Spatial studies in rhetoric can catalyze an expansion of the discipline’s front
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Approaches to the Obama Presidency
Bantu Sociolinguistics in Wangari Maathai's Peacebuilding Rhetoric
This article argues that appreciating the holistic approach Wangari Maathai embraced in both her environmental and peacebuilding work requires attending to the abiding influence of Kikuyu language and culture throughout her long career. To highlight the specific connections between her rhetoric and its cultural contexts, I approach Maathai’s discourse and activism from the perspective of Bantu sociolinguistics. Through a sociolinguistic analysis …
Rhetorical Places
Encounters in space offer rhetoricians important portals for understanding the fullness of what it means to be human. Spatial studies in rhetoric can catalyze an expansion of the discipline’s front
Moved by the Past
Micronations and Postnational Rhetorics
This essay challenges the model of nationalism long favored in rhetorical scholarship by repositioning it as just one among numerous possibilities. To illustrate an alternative perspective, I employ a new materialist approach to postcolonial nations in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, I draw on Wangari Maathai’s later work to juxtapose Westphalian nationalism to micronationalism. I argue that close attention to spatial and material dynamics in t…
Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life
There is arguably no region of the world that has been the object of more intellectual contempt, intellectual derision, and intellectual disregard than Africa. Scholars have long documented the dark, dreary, pernicious, and primitive “Africanism” some argue has been a (if not the) defining pillar of philosophizing, literature, criticism, and historiography in the North Atlantic for a long time. Emerging along with intentionally misconstrued yet u…
Coda
The COVID-19 pandemic marks a temporal rupture that, amid all the tragedies entailed therein, is deeply entangled with one of the largest uprisings in modern history. Not only has the virus disprop
Theorizing Race and Gender in the Anthropocene
What does it mean to think about race and gender in the Anthropocene? In collaboration with Achille Mbembé’s recent work, this article argues that the Anthropocene requires rethinking race and gender and that retheorizing race and gender might just offer avenues for mitigation and adaptation of/to radical ecological and cultural transformation. To understand how we arrived at the Anthropocene and how race and gender are implicated, the article fi…
Precarious publics
Taking up the responses some relatively recent immigrants to the United States had to responses to the 2020 Campaign, this article argues for a postnational perspective on (U.S. American) presidential public address. I develop this argument in two brief sections. First, I demonstrate that rhetorical tropology alone cannot explain the thematic of democracy’s vulnerability that emerged in many people’s reactions to the aftermath of the 2020 preside…
The Meanings of What Can(not) be Said
Motivated by a seeming disregard of the problem of speech proper in some rhetorical theorizing, I attempt to show the heuristic value of a semiological approach to what can(not) be said to rhetorical inquiry. I argue that attending to the specifics of speech, of its conditions of (im)possibility, is one way to arrive at rhetoric’s multiple compositions. To illustrate these points, I consider the case of what cannot be said from the perspective of…
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance
Toward an African Critical Orientation
This essay proposes an African orientation to critical work. We begin by locating the need for postcolonial indigenous African bases for critical interventions in the idea of epistemic freedom articulated by African decolonial thinkers along with the postcolonial critique of Frankfurt School and Chicago circle critical theory. Next, we develop a basis for critical interventions in Bantu cosmology by drawing on Omedi Ochieng’s groundwork thesis an…
Toward a global and multispecies pedagogy for Environmental Communication
In June 2025, the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) held its 18th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) at the University of Tasmania in nipaluna/Ho
Afropolitanism and cultural discourse studies
In the opening pages of his essay, Gabriel Opare lays out the question that is the impetus of his inquiry. ‘What might it look like’ he asks, ‘to theorize African technoculture using the continent
Philosophy (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Linguistics (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Rhetoric (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras)