Kizito Z Muchemwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1255140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kizito Z Muchemwa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kizito Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Muchemwa |
| SIGNATURE | MUCHEMWA K Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aesthetics of subtlety and the postcolony
Kizito Z. MuchemwaDepartment of English and Performing Arts, Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, [email protected]
Dictatorships, disasters, and African soccer
This article is a reflection on a particular moment in Zimbabwean soccer, the National Sports Stadium disaster of July 2000. Reading the soccer stadium as a dense semiotic site with many slippages of symbols and meanings, the article draws links between the game of football and that of politics. Both games offer narratives of the nation that constantly collide and merge as they share the same features. Complex rules regulate both games but there …
Polarising cultures, politics and communities and fracturing economies in Zimbabwean literature
Traditional postcolonial approaches have tended to read, imagine and construct Africa through an essentialising Manichaeism. Critical of what he describes as ‘nativism’ and ‘Afro-radicalism’ and the dangers they pose to a reinvention of Africa, Achille Mbembe (2002 Mbembe, A., 2002. On the power of the false Achille Mbembe. Trans. Judith Inggs. Public Culture, 14 (3), 629–641. [Google Scholar]) suggests new ways of seeing the continent. Drawing o…
Galas,biras, state funerals and the necropolitan imagination in re-constructions of the Zimbabwean nation, 1980-2008
This study focuses on the regime of the spectacle as it is deployed by the postcolonial state to establish hegemony and claim legitimacy, with reference to Zimbabwe from 1980 up to the establishment of the Government of National Unity in 2008. This period is dominated by the ZANU-PF narrative of the nation, in which imagining the nation excludes and disposes of undesirable individuals and groups. The study is framed by Achille Mbembe's critique o…
Manning the Nation
Gender studies in Zimbabwe have tended to focus on women and their comparative disadvantages and under-privilege. Assuming a broader perspective is necessary at a time when society has grown used to arguments rooted in binaries: colonised and coloniser, race and class, sex and gender, poverty and wealth, patriotism and terrorism, etc.The editors of Manning the Nation recognise that concepts of manhood can be used to repress or liberate, and will …
Galas,biras, state funerals and the necropolitan imagination in re-constructions of the Zimbabwean nation, 1980-2008
This study focuses on the regime of the spectacle as it is deployed by the postcolonial state to establish hegemony and claim legitimacy, with reference to Zimbabwe from 1980 up to the establishment of the Government of National Unity in 2008. This period is dominated by the ZANU-PF narrative of the nation, in which imagining the nation excludes and disposes of undesirable individuals and groups. The study is framed by Achille Mbembe's critique o…
Dictatorships, disasters, and African soccer
This article is a reflection on a particular moment in Zimbabwean soccer, the National Sports Stadium disaster of July 2000. Reading the soccer stadium as a dense semiotic site with many slippages of symbols and meanings, the article draws links between the game of football and that of politics. Both games offer narratives of the nation that constantly collide and merge as they share the same features. Complex rules regulate both games but there …
Polarising cultures, politics and communities and fracturing economies in Zimbabwean literature
Traditional postcolonial approaches have tended to read, imagine and construct Africa through an essentialising Manichaeism. Critical of what he describes as ‘nativism’ and ‘Afro-radicalism’ and the dangers they pose to a reinvention of Africa, Achille Mbembe (2002 Mbembe, A., 2002. On the power of the false Achille Mbembe. Trans. Judith Inggs. Public Culture, 14 (3), 629–641. [Google Scholar]) suggests new ways of seeing the continent. Drawing o…
Manning the Nation
Gender studies in Zimbabwe have tended to focus on women and their comparative disadvantages and under-privilege. Assuming a broader perspective is necessary at a time when society has grown used to arguments rooted in binaries: colonised and coloniser, race and class, sex and gender, poverty and wealth, patriotism and terrorism, etc.The editors of Manning the Nation recognise that concepts of manhood can be used to repress or liberate, and will …
Galas,biras, state funerals and the necropolitan imagination in re-constructions of the Zimbabwean nation, 1980-2008
This study focuses on the regime of the spectacle as it is deployed by the postcolonial state to establish hegemony and claim legitimacy, with reference to Zimbabwe from 1980 up to the establishment of the Government of National Unity in 2008. This period is dominated by the ZANU-PF narrative of the nation, in which imagining the nation excludes and disposes of undesirable individuals and groups. The study is framed by Achille Mbembe's critique o…
Dictatorships, disasters, and African soccer
This article is a reflection on a particular moment in Zimbabwean soccer, the National Sports Stadium disaster of July 2000. Reading the soccer stadium as a dense semiotic site with many slippages of symbols and meanings, the article draws links between the game of football and that of politics. Both games offer narratives of the nation that constantly collide and merge as they share the same features. Complex rules regulate both games but there …
Polarising cultures, politics and communities and fracturing economies in Zimbabwean literature
Traditional postcolonial approaches have tended to read, imagine and construct Africa through an essentialising Manichaeism. Critical of what he describes as ‘nativism’ and ‘Afro-radicalism’ and the dangers they pose to a reinvention of Africa, Achille Mbembe (2002 Mbembe, A., 2002. On the power of the false Achille Mbembe. Trans. Judith Inggs. Public Culture, 14 (3), 629–641. [Google Scholar]) suggests new ways of seeing the continent. Drawing o…
Aesthetics of subtlety and the postcolony
Kizito Z. MuchemwaDepartment of English and Performing Arts, Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, [email protected]
African history and culture studies (4 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)