Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe

<p>This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and ‘newness’ are (re)produced circulated naturalised received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe.</p><p>Going beyond the ordinariness of conventional political human and social science methods the book offers new and engaging multi-disciplinary approaches that treat discourse and language as important sites to encounter the politics of contested representations of the Zimbabwean crisis in the wake of the 2017 coup. The book centres discourse on new approaches to contestations around the discursive framing of various aspects of the socio-economic and political crisis related to significant political changes in Zimbabwe post-2017. Contributors in this volume most of whom experienced the complex transition first-hand examine some of the ways in which language functions as a socio-cultural and political mechanism for creating imaginaries circulating defending and contesting conceptions visions perceptions and knowledges of the post-Mugabe turn in the Zimbabwean crisis and its management by the New Dispensation. </p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies postcolonial studies language/discourse studies African politics and culture.</p>