Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces

Genealogies, Discourses, and Epistemic Struggles

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces: Genealogies, Discourses, and Epistemic Struggles establishes a debate and dialogue between critical and post-/de-colonial approaches in the study of subalternity in online media representations. Editors Khanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu curate chapters that deal specifically with the intersectional subalternity of Matabeleland, a political and geographical region in the Southwest part of Zimbabwe comprising of three provinces: Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, and Bulawayo metropolitan province. The subalternity of this region emerges in politics and popular culture, including media, as intersectional in terms of ethnicity, region, gender, class, and beyond. This book argues that in online spaces the liberatory politics of Matabeleland emerges as trapped in coloniality.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-08
Mått157 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt549 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793645258

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AcknowledgementsIntroductionKhanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu PART I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues1. Marginal Societies Online: A Critical Appreciation of Genocide and its Politics in CyberspaceShepherd Mpofu2. Counter-Memory, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Discursive Constructions of Matabeleland in Digital SpacesMphathisi Ndlovu3: The Pitfalls of Matabeleland as a (Digital) Work of MemoryKhanyile Mlotshwa4: Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict MatabelelandNtombizakhe Moyo-NyoniPART II: Minorities of Minorities5: Hidden in Public: The Symbolic Annihilation of the Khoisan People in Zimbabwe’s Public SphereChristina Ncube and Khanyile Mlotshwa6: The Batonga Representations in Matabeleland ImaginationsMike Mutale7: Kalanga Activism and the Imaginations of Matabeleland in Digital SpacesNkosini Aubrey Khupe8: Theorizing Online Female Journalism as Border Practices in the Case of Amakhosikazi Media, Bulawayo, ZimbabweKhanyile Mlotshwa and B

“Mlotshwa and Ndlovu have successfully assembled a stellar cohort of young and brilliant intellectuals to engage the important and often ignored question of Matebeleland in Zimbabwe from the vantage point of media studies. The result is a treasure trove—indeed a rich, enriching, and eye-opening study—of the multifaceted aspects of the Matebeleland question and idea ranging from memory, nationalism, identity, search for peace, cyberspace activism, performances, to photography. Just like they have Yoruba studies in Nigeria, here we have a good start in Matebeleland studies.”