National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Chitando, Ezra

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration and reconciliation in Zimbabwe. It will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, conflict and reconciliation, and development studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000739558
• Artikelnr.: 58388956

Autorenporträt

Ezra Chitando serves as a professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Classics, and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe and a theology consultant on HIV and AIDS for the World Council of Churches. He has published extensively on religion and HIV, gender, masculinity, politics, and methodology. Kelvin Chikonzo is a senior lecturer who has researched intensively on protest theatre in Zimbabwe. He is interested in studying various aspects of democracy protest theatre as a way of ensuring that protest theatre does not replicate the oppression that it purports to fight against in terms of multivocalism, mediation of agency and liberating the spectator. Nehemiah Chivandikwa is an Associate Professor at the University of Zimbabwe. He teaches theatre and development communication and applied media technologies. His research interests are in performance and body politics, gender, disability, applied theatre performances and media. He has published several articles in both regional and international journals in these areas. Prof Chivandikwa has been involved in several projects in applied theatre on gender, political violence, disability and rural and urban development. His latest 2017 publications are: 'Subverting Ableist Discourse as an Exercise in Precarity' in the Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 35(3):pp.61-75 and 'Political-Ethical Approach to Disability in Theatre for Development Context' in Applied Theatre Research , 5(2):83-97.

Inhaltsangabe

Author biographies Introduction: national healing, integration and
reconciliation in Zimbabwe 1. The elusive search for national healing and
reconciliation in Zimbabwe 2. The social imaginary for healing and
reconciliation 3. The significance of inclusivity: national healing and
reconciliation in Zimbabwe 4. The government of national unity and national
healing in Zimbabwe 5. Tinkering with the commission: Zimbabwe's use of
commissions of inquiry as a transitional justice mechanism 6. Theorising
reconciliation and national healing in Zimbabwe 7. Violence as a peace
repellent: the politics of Zimbabwe and hate language during the "Old
Dispensation" 8. The Shona proverbs as a resource for reconciliation 9.
Sahwira and/as endogenous healing and therapy in Shona funerary rituals:
insights for national healing 10. Theatre, grassroots civility, and
healing/reconciliation: a critique of Heal the Wounds11.Ngozi spirits and
healing the nation at the grassroots 12. Media and healing in Zimbabwe:
millstone or milestone? 13. Remembering and healing post-colonial violence:
an analysis of Christopher Mlalazi's Running with Mother14. The beauty of
forgiveness: lessons for Zimbabwe in conflict-transformation and
peace-building from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of
a Yellow Sun15. The potential role of education in peacebuilding in
Zimbabwe 16. "The Bruised and Troubled Nation": Pentecostals,
reconciliation, and development in Zimbabwe 17. Zimbabwean theology and
religious studies promoting national healing and reconciliation: towards
curriculum transformation 18. Trauma and healing among children on the
streets in Zimbabwe 19. The environmental healing promises of a Zimbabwean
traditional religio-mythical paradise Index