To Coup or Not to Coup: How the Zimbabwean Coup Exhibited a New Postcolonial Militarised Masculinity and Complicated the Understanding of Conflict

Author(s): Rutendo Chabikwa

Type: Research abstract

Department: Department for Gender Studies

Exhibit no: 29


A discursive and textual analysis of the Zimbabwean coup through a lens of postcolonial theory.

The research highlights a need for making complex the temporal and structural understanding of conflict in the United Nations WPS agenda, and the concept of militarized masculinities.