Susanne Verheul (University of Oxford)

Performing Power in Zimbabwe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Building on socio-legal studies, anthropology, and performance studies, this book challenges depictions of law as a faà ade for political repression by examining political trials in Zimbabwe after 2000, looking beyond the repression/resistance binary as a way of understanding governments' and citizens' uses of law.

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Produktdetails

• African Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781009011792
• ISBN-10: 1009011790
• Artikelnr.: 66827002

Autorenporträt

Susanne Verheul is a Research Fellow in International Development at the University of Oxford where her research focuses on questions of law and politics in Southern Africa. She previously taught at University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Law, state authority and the courts, 1. History, authority
and the law in Zimbabwe, 1950-2002; 2. 'Rebels' and 'good boys': examining
the working conditions in Zimbabwe's attorney general's office after 2000;
3. 'Zimbabweans are foolishly litigious': debating citizenship when
engaging with a politicised legal system; 4. 'What is abnormal is normal':
performative politics on the stages of arrest and detention; 5. Material
and sensory courtrooms: observing the 'decline of professionalism' in
Harare's magistrates'' courts; 6. The trials of the 'traitor in Harare's
magistrates' courts under the unity government; 7. History, consciousness
and citizenship in Matabeleland: the impact of the MLF case; 8. Historical
narrative and political strategy in Bulawayo's magistrates' courts: the
case of Owen Maseko; Conclusion: 'Government is a legal fiction' -
performing law, the state, citizenship and politics.