Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe, Volume I

Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in Linguistics and Literature in the Department of English and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. She is also a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, UNISA, South Africa, and Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies, Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany.Sophia Chirongoma is Senior Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She is also Academic Associate/Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (RITR) in the college of Human Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Electoral terrain in Zimbabwean politics.- Section A: Electoral environment in Zimbabwean politics.- Chapter 2. Electoral bickering: Reforms, transparency and credibility of Zimbabwean elections.- Chapter 3. Cordoning off the debris of Electoral Violence and Generative Hegemony in Zimbabwean Politics: Spying on the 2023 Harmonised Elections.- Chapter 4. The semiotics of political schisms and prospects of nation-rebuilding: “Varakashi 4ED” and the “Terrorists”.- Chapter 5. Voting: bliss or blisters? The Zimbabwean experience.- Chapter 6. Shifting the Voting Burden to Others: Abstainers and Turn Outers in Zimbabwean Elections..- Section B: Language, politics and elections in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 7. The interaction of language and politics: Polysemanticism in the aphorism ‘we died for this country, so we will rule Zimbabwe forever.’.- Chapter 8. Stoking the Flames of Hate language and Conflict ahead of Zimbabwe’s 2023 Polls.- Chapter 9. Hate Speech and the Electoral Processes in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 10. The “New Old Dispensation”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Selected ZANU (PF) Leadership Speeches in Post-Mugabe Era and Implications on Zimbabwe`s Electoral Process.- Chapter 11.ChiShona language, a tool in winning political support during campaigning: A case of Buhera South in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 12. Political poetic/ theatrical campaigning pieces in indigenous languages in rural communities: The case of Bikita district in Masvingo, Zimbabwe.- Section C: Electoral institutions and human rights in Zimbabwean politics.- Chapter 13.  Adjudication of presidential election disputes in Zimbabwe: The case of Chamisa v Mnangagwa.- Chapter 14. The judiciary and electoral disputes in Zimbabwe’s contemporary political landscape.- Chapter 15. Political dialectics and the role of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in elections: Friend or Foe?.-Chapter 16. Electoral laws, reforms, media transparency and the credibility of elections in Zimbabwe.