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Title Securitising monstrous bottoms in the age of posthuman carnivalesque? : decolonising the environment, human beings & African heritages / edited by Artwell Nhemachena & Munyaradzi Mawere.

Publication Info. Mankon, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2020]

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Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter One: Security in the Age of Post-Humanist Relational Ontologies? A Decolonial Introduction -- Introduction -- Securitising posthuman actors -- Conceptualising security -- Posthumanism and insecurities arising from imperial entanglements and assemblages -- Relationality and the disposability of insecure human subjects -- Outlines of the chapters -- References -- Chapter Two: Theorising Staticide and Imperial Escapist Security: A Decolonial Perspective -- Introduction
Manufacturing state-phobia: Culling Africans from sovereignty and autonomy -- Imperial escapism and genocide -- Camouflaging evil via relational theories: Sensing an oncoming 21st century genocide -- Empire in escapist mode: Distinguishing the security of slave-drivers from that of the enslaved -- Ontological insecurity: The security of the enslaved and colonised -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three: Technology, New Eugenics and the 21st Century Colonial Comeback: Implications for African Security -- Introduction
Eugenics, the old and the new chains of enslavement: The colonial comeback -- Chained in the Internet of Things -- Chipification and cheapification of African lives and institutions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Four: Colonial Religious Terrorism and the Desecration of African Sacred Groves/Shrines: Implications for African Human Security in Matabeleland Region, Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- An overview of missionary stations in Matabeleland -- The cosmo-vision of African religion and spirituality -- Effects of colonial missionaries on Matabeleland sacred groves and shrines
Effects of colonial missionaries on sacred groves and shrines in Matabeleland South Province -- Effects of colonial missionaries on sacred groves and shrines in Matabeleland North Province -- Revitalisation strategies of African religion -- References -- Chapter Five: Entanglements Between State, Human and Environmental Security? Implications for Africans -- State security -- Human security -- Environmental security -- Pre-colonial African states and the entanglements of state, human and environmental security -- Constricted colonial 'state security' -- Dawn of independence
State, human and environmental security nexuses in post colonial Africa -- Nigeria's Niger Delta states -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Six: Socio-economic and Environmental Insecurity in Zimbabwe: The Case of Chinese Mining Activities in Marange -- History of economic and political relations between China and Zimbabwe -- Environmental sustainability -- Social sustainability -- Economic sustainability -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Seven: Towards the Securitisation of African Sacred Dance Practices: The Case of Neocolonial Destruction of Mhande in Zimbabwe -- Introduction
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Subject Decolonization -- Africa.
Decolonization.
Africa.
National security -- Africa.
National security.
Human security -- Africa.
Human security.
Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1960-
Subject Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term Since 1960
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nhemachena, Artwell, editor.
Mawere, Munyaradzi, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 995655104X 9789956551040 (OCoLC)1160594802
ISBN 9956551171 (electronic book)
9789956551170 (electronic book)
995655104X
9789956551040