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This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is
poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in
contemporary times will be thought of in terms of before and after
the pandemic. It looks at how the pandemic has brought to the fore
the question of the appropriate ethics, politics, and spirituality
and highlights the present condition of humanity and the need to
rethink alternative planetary futures. It argues that the pandemic
has existential and epistemic implications for human life on planet
Earth, and a post–COVID-19 future requires a fundamental
transformation of the present economic, political, and social
conditions. Drawing on empirical case studies on the COVID-19
pandemic from Africa and beyond, contributions in this book
challenge the reader to rethink alternative planetary futures. It
will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers
of African studies, citizenship studies, global development, global
politics, human geography, migration studies, development studies,
international studies, international relations, and political
science.
Will be of interest to international organisations and policymakers
as well as students and academics. Builds on a well-established
discourse on the international migration conundrum and
"borderization", with most of the empirical evidence embedded
mainly in the African experience.
This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is
poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in
contemporary times will be thought of in terms of before and after
the pandemic. It looks at how the pandemic has brought to the fore
the question of the appropriate ethics, politics, and spirituality
and highlights the present condition of humanity and the need to
rethink alternative planetary futures. It argues that the pandemic
has existential and epistemic implications for human life on planet
Earth, and a post–COVID-19 future requires a fundamental
transformation of the present economic, political, and social
conditions. Drawing on empirical case studies on the COVID-19
pandemic from Africa and beyond, contributions in this book
challenge the reader to rethink alternative planetary futures. It
will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers
of African studies, citizenship studies, global development, global
politics, human geography, migration studies, development studies,
international studies, international relations, and political
science.
This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent
spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century. The author
calls upon Africa to turn over a new leaf in the domains of
politics, economy, and knowledge as it frees itself from imperial
global designs and global coloniality. With a focus on Africa and
its Diaspora, the author calls for a radical turning over of a new
leaf, predicated on decolonial turn and epistemic freedom. The key
themes subjected to decolonial analysis include: (1)
decolonization/decoloniality - articulating the meaning and
contribution of the decolonial turn; (2) subjectivity/identity -
examining the problem of Blackness (identity) as external and
internal invention; (3) the Bandung spirit of decolonization as an
embodiment of resistance and possibilities, development and
self-improvement; (4) development and self-improvement - of African
political economy, as entangled in the colonial matrix of power,
and the African Renaissance, as weakened by undecolonized political
and economic thought; and (5) knowledge - the role of African
humanities in the struggle for epistemic freedom. This
groundbreaking volume opens the intellectual canvas on the
challenges and possibilities of African futures. It will be of
great interest to students and scholars of Politics and
International Relations, Development, Sociology, African Studies,
Black Studies, Education, History Postcolonial Studies, and the
emerging field of Decolonial Studies.
Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking
work that highlights the resurgence and insurgence of Marxism and
decolonization, and the ways in which decolonization and
decoloniality are grounded in the contributions of Black Marxism,
the Radical Black tradition, and anti-colonial liberation
traditions. Featuring leading and young scholars and activists,
this book is a practical scholarly intervention that shows how
democratic Marxism and decoloniality might converge to provoke
planetary decolonization in the 21st century. At the centre of this
process, enabled by both increasing human entanglements and the
resilience of racism, the volume's contributors analyse converging
forces of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-patriarchy,
anti-sexism, Indigenous People's movements, eco-feminist
formations, and intellectual movements levelled against
Eurocentrism. This book will be of great interest to students,
scholars, and intellectuals interested in Marxism, decolonization,
and transnational activism.
Will be of interest to international organisations and policymakers
as well as students and academics. Builds on a well-established
discourse on the international migration conundrum and
"borderization", with most of the empirical evidence embedded
mainly in the African experience.
Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking
work that highlights the resurgence and insurgence of Marxism and
decolonization, and the ways in which decolonization and
decoloniality are grounded in the contributions of Black Marxism,
the Radical Black tradition, and anti-colonial liberation
traditions. Featuring leading and young scholars and activists,
this book is a practical scholarly intervention that shows how
democratic Marxism and decoloniality might converge to provoke
planetary decolonization in the 21st century. At the centre of this
process, enabled by both increasing human entanglements and the
resilience of racism, the volume's contributors analyse converging
forces of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-patriarchy,
anti-sexism, Indigenous People's movements, eco-feminist
formations, and intellectual movements levelled against
Eurocentrism. This book will be of great interest to students,
scholars, and intellectuals interested in Marxism, decolonization,
and transnational activism.
This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South
Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever
since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many
diverse groups of people contained within its borders have
struggled to translate a mere geographical description into the
identity of a people. Today the new struggles 'for South Africa'
and 'to become South African' are inextricably intertwined with
complex challenges of transformation, xenophobia, claims of reverse
racism, social justice, economic justice, service delivery, and the
resurgent decolonization struggles reverberating inside the
universities. This book covers the genealogy of the idea of South
Africa, exploring how the country has been conceived of by a broad
group of actors, including the British, Afrikaners, diverse African
nationalist traditions, and new formations such as the Economic
Freedom Fighters (EFF), Black First Land First (BLF), and student
formations (Rhodes Must Fall & Fees Must Fall). Over the course
of the book, a broad range of themes are covered, including
identity formation, modernity, race, ethnicity, indigeneity,
autochthony, land, gender, intellectual traditions, poetics of
South Africanness, language, popular culture, truth and
reconciliation, and national development planning. Concluding with
important reflections on how a colonial imaginary can be changed
into a free and inclusive postcolonial nation-state, this book will
be an important read for Africanist researchers from across the
humanities and social sciences.
This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics
of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus
is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very
hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but
resilient 'nationalist-military' alliance crafted during the
anti-colonial liberation struggle in the 1970s. Inevitably,
violence, misogyny and masculinity are constitutive of the
political culture. Economically speaking, the culture is that of a
bureaucratic, parasitic, primitive accumulation and corruption,
which include invasion and emptying of state coffers by a
self-styled 'Chimurenga aristocracy.' However, this Chimurenga
aristocracy is not cohesive, as the politics that led to Robert
Mugabe's ousting from power was preceded by dirty and protracted
internal factionalism. At the center of the factional politics was
the 'first family':Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace Mugabe. This
book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the complex
contemporary politics in Zimbabwe, taking seriously such issues as
gender, misogyny, militarism, violence, media, identity, modes of
accumulation, the ethnicization of politics, attempts to open lines
of credit and FDI, national healing, and the national question as
key variables not only of a complete political culture but also of
difficult transitional politics.
This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics
of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus
is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very
hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but
resilient 'nationalist-military' alliance crafted during the
anti-colonial liberation struggle in the 1970s. Inevitably,
violence, misogyny and masculinity are constitutive of the
political culture. Economically speaking, the culture is that of a
bureaucratic, parasitic, primitive accumulation and corruption,
which include invasion and emptying of state coffers by a
self-styled 'Chimurenga aristocracy.' However, this Chimurenga
aristocracy is not cohesive, as the politics that led to Robert
Mugabe's ousting from power was preceded by dirty and protracted
internal factionalism. At the center of the factional politics was
the 'first family':Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace Mugabe. This
book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the complex
contemporary politics in Zimbabwe, taking seriously such issues as
gender, misogyny, militarism, violence, media, identity, modes of
accumulation, the ethnicization of politics, attempts to open lines
of credit and FDI, national healing, and the national question as
key variables not only of a complete political culture but also of
difficult transitional politics.
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical
contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa's former
white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume
responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development
in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western
development models suited to its political, economic, social and
cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and
discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial
tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also
explores other factors impacting development, including regional
politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and
indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a
Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country's
anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized. These essays
trace his early influence on Zimbabwean nationalism in the late
1950s and his leadership in the armed liberation movement and
postcolonial national-building processes, as well as his
denigration by the winners of the 1980 elections, Mugabe's Zimbabwe
African National Union-Patriotic Front. The Nkomo that emerges is
complex and contested, the embodiment of Zimbabwe's tortured
trajectory from colony to independent postcolonial state. This is
an essential corrective to the standard history of
twentieth-century Zimbabwe, and an invaluable resource for scholars
of African nationalist liberation movements and nation-building.
A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial
studies, this concise and forcefully argued volume lays out a
groundbreaking interpretation of the "Mandela phenomenon." Contrary
to a neoliberal social model that privileges adversarial criminal
justice and a rationalistic approach to war making, Sabelo J.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni identifies transformative political justice and a
reimagined social order as key features of Nelson Mandela's legacy.
Mandela is understood here as an exemplar of decolonial humanism,
one who embodied the idea of survivor's justice and held up
reconciliation and racial harmony as essential for transcending
colonial modes of thought.
What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary
approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President
Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe
from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and
decolonial perspectives. It is concerned with capturing various
meanings of Mugabeism.
This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent
spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century. The author
calls upon Africa to turn over a new leaf in the domains of
politics, economy, and knowledge as it frees itself from imperial
global designs and global coloniality. With a focus on Africa and
its Diaspora, the author calls for a radical turning over of a new
leaf, predicated on decolonial turn and epistemic freedom. The key
themes subjected to decolonial analysis include: (1)
decolonization/decoloniality - articulating the meaning and
contribution of the decolonial turn; (2) subjectivity/identity -
examining the problem of Blackness (identity) as external and
internal invention; (3) the Bandung spirit of decolonization as an
embodiment of resistance and possibilities, development and
self-improvement; (4) development and self-improvement - of African
political economy, as entangled in the colonial matrix of power,
and the African Renaissance, as weakened by undecolonized political
and economic thought; and (5) knowledge - the role of African
humanities in the struggle for epistemic freedom. This
groundbreaking volume opens the intellectual canvas on the
challenges and possibilities of African futures. It will be of
great interest to students and scholars of Politics and
International Relations, Development, Sociology, African Studies,
Black Studies, Education, History Postcolonial Studies, and the
emerging field of Decolonial Studies.
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical
contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa's former
white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume
responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development
in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western
development models suited to its political, economic, social and
cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and
discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial
tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also
explores other factors impacting development, including regional
politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and
indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by
western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization.
Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of
the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing
to reproduce Africa's subaltern position, a position characterized
by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack
of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack
of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author's sharply
critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has
kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to
justify external interventions in African affairs, including the
interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African
positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and
available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes
cognitive justice and new humanism.
Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by
western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization.
Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of
the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing
to reproduce Africa's subaltern position, a position characterized
by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack
of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack
of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author's sharply
critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has
kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to
justify external interventions in African affairs, including the
interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African
positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and
available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes
cognitive justice and new humanism.
A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial
studies, this concise and forcefully argued volume lays out a
groundbreaking interpretation of the "Mandela phenomenon." Contrary
to a neoliberal social model that privileges adversarial criminal
justice and a rationalistic approach to war making, Sabelo J.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni identifies transformative political justice and a
reimagined social order as key features of Nelson Mandela's legacy.
Mandela is understood here as an exemplar of decolonial humanism,
one who embodied the idea of survivor's justice and held up
reconciliation and racial harmony as essential for transcending
colonial modes of thought.
This lively book interrogates the African postcolonial condition
with a focus on the thematics of liberation predicament and the
long standing crisis of dependence (epistemological, cultural,
economic, and political) created by colonialism and coloniality. A
sophisticated deployment of historical, philosophical, and
political knowledge in combination with the equi-primordial
concepts of coloniality of power, coloniality of being, and
coloniality of knowledge yields a comprehensive and truly
refreshing understanding of African realities of subalternity. How
global imperial designs and coloniality of power shaped the
architecture of African social formations and disciplined the
social forces towards a convoluted 'postcolonial neocolonized'
paralysis dominated by myths of decolonization and illusions of
freedom emerges poignantly in this important book. What
distinguishes this book is its decolonial entry that enables a
critical examination of the grammar of decolonization that is often
wrongly conflated with that of emancipation; bold engagement with
the intractable question of what and who is an African; systematic
explication of the role of coloniality in sustaining Euro-American
hegemony; and unmasking of how the 'postcolonial' is interlocked
with the 'neocolonial' paradoxically. It is within this context
that the postcolonial African state emerges as a leviathan, and the
'postcolonial' reality becomes a terrain of contradictions mediated
by the logic of violence. No doubt, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni's
handling of complex concepts and difficult questions of the day is
remarkable, particularly the decoding and mixing of complex
theoretical interventions from Africa and Latin America to
enlighten the present, without losing historical perspicacity. To
buttress the theoretical arguments, detailed empirical case studies
of South Africa, Zimbabwe, DRC and Namibia completes this timely
contribution to African Studies.
This book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean
national project, providing a radical and critical analysis of the
fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism against the wider context
of African nationalism in general. The book departs radically from
the common 'praise-texts' in seriously engaging with the darker
aspects of nationalism, including its failure to create the
nation-as-people, and to install democracy and a culture of human
rights. The author examines how the various people inhabiting the
lands between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers entered history and
how violence became a central aspect of the national project of
organising Zimbabweans into a collectivity in pursuit of a
political end.
At the beginning of 2000, with the launch of the so-called Third
Chimurenga, Zimbabwean nationalism revealed some of its most
grotesque aspects, resulting in a polarisation of the nation into
'patriots' and 'sell-outs' and dividing academics into groups such
as 'regime intellectuals', left-nationalists,
left-internationalists, 'nativists' and 'neo-liberals'. Drawing
upon the arguments and insights of an array of scholars, many based
in Zimbabwe, this book offers a new analysis of the grotesque
character of Zimbabwean nationalism, a nationalism that has
provoked ambivalent responses locally, regionally and
internationally.
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