Praise Zenenga
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Praise Zenenga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Praise |
| FAMILY NAME | Zenenga |
| SIGNATURE | ZENENGA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political prostitutes
Middle-class popular theatre narratives and discourses emanating from various crisis-driven contexts in Zimbabwe reflect prevalent political affiliations, sentiments and interests. Methodologically, Marx's historical–materialist framework offers a means of analysing middle-class's vacillating economic status, political shifts and realignments drawn from specific scenarios of everyday life and stage performances. The article argues that in the con…
Visualizing politics in African sport
Football in Zimbabwe represents a variety of socio-economic and political interests, but has also become a means of engaging in dissent and resistance. Football has been a contested terrain – the state has tried to use the game as a means of achieving social control, but it has also been a critical medium for the expression and communication of dissent. In Zimbabwe, subordinate groups have developed forms of social and political representation in…
A Voice in the Teeth of Power
Aesthetics and performance in Zimbabwean soccer
This paper brings into critical focus the complex and diverse intersections of aesthetics, performance and soccer in the formation and expression of cultural identities in contemporary Zimbabwean life. Drawing upon my own interdisciplinary perspectives as well as Performance Studies theorists such as Richard Schechner, this paper uses theatre as an analytic lens to examine how soccer reflects Zimbabwean society's prevalent tastes, tendencies, way…
Visualizing politics in African sport
Football in Zimbabwe represents a variety of socio-economic and political interests, but has also become a means of engaging in dissent and resistance. Football has been a contested terrain – the state has tried to use the game as a means of achieving social control, but it has also been a critical medium for the expression and communication of dissent. In Zimbabwe, subordinate groups have developed forms of social and political representation in…
Aesthetics and performance in Zimbabwean soccer
This paper brings into critical focus the complex and diverse intersections of aesthetics, performance and soccer in the formation and expression of cultural identities in contemporary Zimbabwean life. Drawing upon my own interdisciplinary perspectives as well as Performance Studies theorists such as Richard Schechner, this paper uses theatre as an analytic lens to examine how soccer reflects Zimbabwean society's prevalent tastes, tendencies, way…
A Voice in the Teeth of Power
Aesthetics and performance in Zimbabwean soccer
This paper brings into critical focus the complex and diverse intersections of aesthetics, performance and soccer in the formation and expression of cultural identities in contemporary Zimbabwean life. Drawing upon my own interdisciplinary perspectives as well as Performance Studies theorists such as Richard Schechner, this paper uses theatre as an analytic lens to examine how soccer reflects Zimbabwean society's prevalent tastes, tendencies, way…
Visualizing politics in African sport
Football in Zimbabwe represents a variety of socio-economic and political interests, but has also become a means of engaging in dissent and resistance. Football has been a contested terrain – the state has tried to use the game as a means of achieving social control, but it has also been a critical medium for the expression and communication of dissent. In Zimbabwe, subordinate groups have developed forms of social and political representation in…
Political prostitutes
Middle-class popular theatre narratives and discourses emanating from various crisis-driven contexts in Zimbabwe reflect prevalent political affiliations, sentiments and interests. Methodologically, Marx's historical–materialist framework offers a means of analysing middle-class's vacillating economic status, political shifts and realignments drawn from specific scenarios of everyday life and stage performances. The article argues that in the con…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Elite (2 works) · History (2 works)