Performing Power in Zimbabwe

Performing Power in Zimbabwe
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 287
Release :
ISBN-13 : 9781009032681
ISBN-10 : 1009032682
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Performing Power in Zimbabwe by : Susanne Verheul

Download or read book Performing Power in Zimbabwe written by Susanne Verheul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of contestation in post-independence Zimbabwe. Drawing on rich court observations and in-depth interviews, this book foregrounds law's potential to reproduce or transform social and political power through the narrative, material, and sensory dimensions of courtroom performances. Instead of viewing appeals to law as acts of resistance by marginalised orders for inclusion in dominant modes of rule, Susanne Verheul argues that it was not recognition by but of this formal, rule-bound ordering, and the form of citizenship it stood for, that was at stake in performative legal engagements. In this manner, law was much more than a mere instrument. Law was a site in which competing conceptions of political authority were given expression, and in which people's understandings of themselves as citizens were formed and performed.


Performing Power in Zimbabwe Related Books

Performing Power in Zimbabwe
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Susanne Verheul
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of
African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Mhoze Chikowero
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-24 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional
Performing Power in Zimbabwe
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Susanne Verheul
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of
Performing Power in Nigeria
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Abimbola A. Adelakun
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Power Politics in Zimbabwe
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Michael Bratton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-07 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Zimbabwe¿s July 2013 election brought the country¿s ¿inclusive¿ power-sharing interlude to an end and installed Mugabe and ZANU-PF for yet another¿its seve