CHRIS FRAZER. Bandit Nation: A History of Outlaws and Cultural Struggle in Mexico, 1810-1920. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. x, 243. $45.00

2007 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 1582-1583
Author(s):  
M. Overmyer-Velazquez
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lincoln University

scholarly journals CONTESTATION OF HEGEMONIES THROUGH PROPAGANDA THEATRE IN POST 2000 ZIMBABWE: THE CASE OF MAD¬ZOKA ZIMBABWE AND THE COUP

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
Ephraim Vhutuza ◽  
Urther Rwafa
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The State ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
History Of

This paper discusses the state-) citizen contestations in Zimbabwe and examines the role of theatre in legitimising and/or resisting state hegemonies in the context of the post 2000 Zimbabwean cultural struggle. Using the theory of hegemony, the paper argues that, after ) the repossession of land by the majority of the black population in 2000 and the constitutional referendum held in February 2000, whose “No” vote challenged the hegemonic discourses and patriotic history of the ruling ZANU PF party, what followed was a largely polarised society split between the pro-hegemonic civic society such as ZNLWA on one hand, and an equally vociferous anti-hegemonic civic society that supported the ruling cultural formations (Raftopoulos and Mlambo 2009; Ravengai 2008). The pro-hegemonic(agree) civic society sought to stabilise and legitimise state authority and its discourses on sovereignty, land reform and the removal of sanctions, while counter-state hegemonic actors such as ZimRights agitated for the respect of human rights, constitutionalism and democracy. Individual theatre practitioners took a cue from these opposing civic society bodies and critically dialogued among themselves, thereby creating some form of binaries characterised by those who also sought to stabilise and maintain the prevailing status quo on one hand, and those that resisted and questioned the legitimacy of the prevailing hegemonies on other hand. In this paper, the polarised state of the theatre is represented by two opposing agitational propaganda performances, Madzoka Zimbabwe and The Coup.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

Sibirica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
History Of Anthropology ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
White Horse ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lincoln University

Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race: An Anthropological Biography Grażyna Kubica, translated by Ben Koschalka (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020), Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Series, eds. Regna Darnell and Robert Oppenheim], xix + 591 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4962-2261-9.Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History Edited by David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova (Cambridgeshire, UK: White Horse Press 2021,), 343 pp. ISBN: 978-1-912186-16-7.Mebet Alexander Grigorenko, translated by Christopher Culver (London: Glagoslav Publications, 2020), 174 pp. $23.65 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-912894-90-1.

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