Connecting Colonial Nostalgia and Global White Supremacism

Rhodesianmentality
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-02270-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

This book links colonial nostalgia to the reactivation of white supremacism in the Global North. Bvirindi develops the concept ‘Rhodesianmentality’ to explore the ways in which colonial racialised discourses of othering shape contemporary racialised discourses on whiteness and white identity.

Through netnographic and ethnographic studies, this book examines and unpacks the ‘Rhodesians will never die’ mantra as the new Internet code word for global white supremacy. Bvirindi shows how Rhodesian colonial racialised discourses of othering inform global far-right politics.

This book will appeal to scholars and students in the areas of sociology, political studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, critical race studies, critical whiteness studies, African studies and race and ethnic studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bvirindi, Tawanda Ray

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Whiteness and the Art of Reminiscing: Remembering the By-Gone Rhodesian Homeland; 2. '#MakeZimbabweRhodesiaAgain' movement, racism, and white supremacy; 3. Memorialisation of the Rhodesian Bush War and the Reconstruction of Rhodesians Will Never Die Spirit; 4. Remembering Ian Smith and the Recollection of a Rhodesia that Never Was; 5. We Were Never Privileged, We Simply Worked Hard: Whiteness, Denialism and Escapism Post-Rhodesia; 6. Re-producing Rhodesian Symbolism and Bolstering of Whiteness and White Supremacy in the Global North

Über Autor(innen)

Tawanda Ray Bvirindi is a lecturer in community studies at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. His academic work is deeply rooted in critical social theory, with a particular focus on whiteness, race, gender, ethnicity and memory studies within African postcolonial contexts. Recent publications include Remembering Lumumba’s dismembered body politic through Amin (2023) and Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Zimbabwe’s Gukurahundi Mass Grave Exhumations (2024).