The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces

Khanyile Mlotshwa; Mphathisi Ndlovu

doi:10.5771/9781793645265

Summary

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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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4525-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4526-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 264
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
3. Introduction: The Idea of Matabeleland in Cyberspace No access
1. ‌‌Marginal Societies Online: A Critical Appreciation of Genocide and its Politics in Cyberspac No access
2. ‌‌Counter-Memory, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Discursive Constructions of Matabeleland in Digit No access
3. The Pitfalls of Matabeleland as a (Digital) Work of Memory No access
4. Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Matabeleland No access
1. ‌‌Hidden in Public: The Symbolic Annihilation of the Khoisan People in Zimbabwe’s Public Spher No access
2. The BaTonga Representations in Matabeleland Imaginations No access
3. Kalanga Activism and the Imaginations of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces No access
4. ‌‌Theorizing Online Female Journalism as Border Practices in the Case of Amakhosikazi Media, B No access
1. ‌‌Performing Subalternity Online: A Critical Study of the Centre for Innovation and Technology No access
2. ‌‌Interrogating Cybercultures and Critical Consciousness Development in Matabeleland No access
3. The Communicative Construction of Ndebele Identity in Radio Mthwakazi No access
1. ‌‌Beyond Provincialising a Nation without a State: Representations of Matabeleland in uMthwaka No access
2. ‌‌“The Colonized Mean Little to the Colonizer”: The Digital Lives of Colonial Diplomacy No access
3. The (Digital) Return of the Ndebele Monarchy? No access
4. ‌‌Photographing the “Nation” in the Digital Age: A Case of Matabeleland Discourses on Social M No access
Index No access Pages 257 - 260
About the Contributors No access Pages 261 - 264