New anthology on The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe
CAS is pleased to announce the publication of The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe (Brill 2025) co-edited by our colleague Amanda Hammar, together with Astrid Rasch and Minna Joahnna Niemi.
The anthology features twelve chapters that examine how the past is put to political use in Zimbabwe: how different pasts are remembered, silenced, and contested by differently positioned actors, and how this in turn shapes the politics of the present. It explores how this is expressed through literature, art, and the media; through exhumations and reburials; in state apology and political myth making; and in both traditional cultural heritage sites and the making of new national symbols.
The contributors include a range of Zimbabwean and Zimbabweanist scholars including: Jocelyn Alexander, Elleke Boehmer, Shadreck Chirikure, Simbarashe Shadreck Chitima, Lena Englund, Shari Eppel, Petina Gappah, Amanda Hammar, Pedzisai Maedza, Owen Maseko, Mphathisi Ndlovu, Minna Johanna Niemi, Astrid Rasch, Timothy Scarnecchia, Thomas Thondhlana, and Katja Uusihakala.
The book is available at Brill.
Although not yet Open Access, it will be openly available within 18 months on the AEGIS website: https://www.aegis-eu.org/