Ruramisai Charumbira
Biographic Data
| ID | 4990733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruramisai Charumbira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruramisai |
| FAMILY NAME | Charumbira |
| SIGNATURE | CHARUMBIRA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-6252-5945 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Special issue
This introductory essay to the special issue Decolonizing Memory Studies, Reclaiming the Study of Memories critiques the persistent Euro-centric paradigms and epistemological hierarchies that dominate the field of Memory Studies. Drawing on insights from thinkers such as Toni Morrison, Merlinda Bobis, and Walter Mignolo, among others, the authors outline three central challenges for the discipline: exposing the limitations of dominant Western mem…
Ecologies of memory
Ancestral work and ecologies of memory
This article rethinks memory studies through Southern African praise poetry, arguing that memory is not only stored in minds, texts, or monuments but sustained through relational ecologies involving people, animals, land, ancestors, ritual, and performance. Centering ChiShona nhetembo and reading them alongside San and Nguni traditions, the essay distinguishes between “ecologies of memory”—the humanly cultivated practices that keep remembrance ac…
Joel Cabrita. Written Out
Ethnic myths as national identity in Brazil
On Wednesday, April 27, 1898, a woman sent anguished cries into the early morning sky.1 She kicked and screamed as prison wardens dragged her to the executioner's scaffold in Salisbury, (Southern) Rhodesia. After much hustling, the prison guards hoisted her up and hooked the noose to her neck. A prison warden covered the woman's head and face with a black pouch-like cloth, tying it at the back. Then, he stood back. The woman wailed, lamenting her…
A School Said to Resemble a Luxury Hotel’
The public reception of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLA) in South Africa and the United States is a recent example of a historical pattern historians have often called the ‘civilizing mission’ on behalf of girls and women in Africa. One of the greatest missed opportunities by founders (and critics) of such schools, past and the present, has been the glaring omission of highlighting contemporary African women's achievements so…
Nehanda and Gender Victimhood in the Central Mashonaland 1896–97 Rebellions
In 1998 David N. Beach revisited the 1896-97 central MaShonaland rising in colonial Zimbabwe in an article titled “An Innocent Woman Unjustly Accused? Charwe, Medium of the Nehanda Mhondoro Spirit, and the 1896-97 Central Shona Rising in Zimbabwe.” Beach's main thesis was that, contrary to conventional wisdom that placed Nehanda-Charwe (and other leaders) at the center of those anti-European settler rebellions, Nehanda-Charwe might have been “an …
Administering Medicine Without a License
Nehanda and Gender Victimhood in the Central Mashonaland 1896–97 Rebellions
In 1998 David N. Beach revisited the 1896-97 central MaShonaland rising in colonial Zimbabwe in an article titled “An Innocent Woman Unjustly Accused? Charwe, Medium of the Nehanda Mhondoro Spirit, and the 1896-97 Central Shona Rising in Zimbabwe.” Beach's main thesis was that, contrary to conventional wisdom that placed Nehanda-Charwe (and other leaders) at the center of those anti-European settler rebellions, Nehanda-Charwe might have been “an …
Administering Medicine Without a License
Administering Medicine Without a License
Nehanda and Gender Victimhood in the Central Mashonaland 1896–97 Rebellions
In 1998 David N. Beach revisited the 1896-97 central MaShonaland rising in colonial Zimbabwe in an article titled “An Innocent Woman Unjustly Accused? Charwe, Medium of the Nehanda Mhondoro Spirit, and the 1896-97 Central Shona Rising in Zimbabwe.” Beach's main thesis was that, contrary to conventional wisdom that placed Nehanda-Charwe (and other leaders) at the center of those anti-European settler rebellions, Nehanda-Charwe might have been “an …
A School Said to Resemble a Luxury Hotel’
The public reception of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLA) in South Africa and the United States is a recent example of a historical pattern historians have often called the ‘civilizing mission’ on behalf of girls and women in Africa. One of the greatest missed opportunities by founders (and critics) of such schools, past and the present, has been the glaring omission of highlighting contemporary African women's achievements so…
Ethnic myths as national identity in Brazil
On Wednesday, April 27, 1898, a woman sent anguished cries into the early morning sky.1 She kicked and screamed as prison wardens dragged her to the executioner's scaffold in Salisbury, (Southern) Rhodesia. After much hustling, the prison guards hoisted her up and hooked the noose to her neck. A prison warden covered the woman's head and face with a black pouch-like cloth, tying it at the back. Then, he stood back. The woman wailed, lamenting her…
Joel Cabrita. Written Out
Special issue
This introductory essay to the special issue Decolonizing Memory Studies, Reclaiming the Study of Memories critiques the persistent Euro-centric paradigms and epistemological hierarchies that dominate the field of Memory Studies. Drawing on insights from thinkers such as Toni Morrison, Merlinda Bobis, and Walter Mignolo, among others, the authors outline three central challenges for the discipline: exposing the limitations of dominant Western mem…
Ecologies of memory
Ancestral work and ecologies of memory
This article rethinks memory studies through Southern African praise poetry, arguing that memory is not only stored in minds, texts, or monuments but sustained through relational ecologies involving people, animals, land, ancestors, ritual, and performance. Centering ChiShona nhetembo and reading them alongside San and Nguni traditions, the essay distinguishes between “ecologies of memory”—the humanly cultivated practices that keep remembrance ac…
History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)