Dr. Zvinashe Mamvura

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-1 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAllgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaften, Experimentelle Linguistik, Typologie, Außereuropäische Sprachen
Keywordscollective memory, politics, place names, Toponymic commemoration, power

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandSimbabwe
OrtHarare
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Zimbabwe (UZ)
Institut/AbteilungAfrican Languages Research Institute (ALRI)

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Tom GüldemannInstitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.06.2019

Programm(e)

2017Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für Postdocs

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2023Zvinashe Mamvura: Goodbye Zimbabwe: Place naming as a cultural arena for symbolic resistance and spatial (in)justice in secessionist politics. . In: Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, 58, 2023, 215–240
2022Mamvura, Z. Changa, M. and Mupandasekwa, I.: Karanga bovonyms in the Nyajena area of Masvingo: a socio-onomastic perspective. In: African Identities, 2022, 1-16
2022Mamvura, Z.: Reconstituting the cultural geography in Zimbabwe: Place renaming in Zimbabwe’s ‘new dispensation.’ . In: Geopolitics, 27, 2022, 972-994
2022Bishi, G., Mujere, J., and Mamvura, Z: Renaming Enkeldoorn: Whiteness, place, and the politics of belonging in Southern Rhodesia. In: Journal of Historical Geography 77, 2022, 55-64
2021Mamvura, Z.: An ethnopragmatic analysis of death-prevention names in the Karanga society of Zimbabwe. In: African Studies 80, 2021, 111-124
2021Mamvura, Z. M. Mazuruse, and I. Mupandasekwa, I: The ‘toponymic undoing’ of Grace Mugabe and the G40 narratives in the ‘‘New Dispensation‘‘: A political semiotics exegesis. In: O. Nyambi, T. Mangena and G. Ncube, The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe: Discourse and Complexities of Transition. Routledge, 2021. 79-97
2021Mamvura, Z.: ‘By what authority?’ The contested politics of urban toponymic inscription in Zimbabwe. In: Urban Geography, 2021, 1-24
2021Mamvura, Z.: ‘Is Mugabe also among the national deities and kings?’: Place renaming and the appropriation of African chieftainship ideals and spirituality in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. In: Journal of Asian and African Studies 56, 2021, 1861-1878
2021Mamvura, Z.: ‘Kutonga Kwaro Gamba’: Politics and the renaming of defence cantonments in the ‘Second Republic’ in Zimbabwe. In: GeoJournal, 86, 2021, 2279-2293
2021Mamvura, Z.: ‘Where Art Thou?’: Ethnocracy, Toponymic Silence, and Toponymic Subjugation in the Harare Commemorative Landscapes during the Mugabe Era (1980–2017). In: Urban Forum 32, 2021, 17-31
2020Zvinashe Mamvura: Let us make Zimbabwe in my own name: Placenaming and Mugabeism in Zimbabwe. In: South African Journal of African Languages, 2020, 32-39
2020Mamvura, Z.: A gendered analysis of the European place naming system in Salisbury, Rhodesia, c.1890 to 1980. In: Loth, C. R., Recognition, regulation, revitalisation: Place names and indigenous languages: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Place Names 2019 Jointly organised by the Joint IGU/ICS Commission on Toponymy and the UFS Clarens, South Africa, 18-20 September 2019. Sun Media Bloemfontein (Pty) Ltd, 2020. 197-218
2020 Mamvura, Z, C. Pfukwa, and D. E. Mutasa: Scale, street renaming and the continued visibility of colonial street names in Harare. In: Nomina Africana 34, 2020, 21–32
2020Mamvura, Z.: ‘Who does the Mugabe regime say that I am?’ Dissecting the toponymic commemoration of Joshua Nkomo in Zimbabwe’s cultural geography. In: African Identities, 2020, 1-17