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SUMMARY:The rifle\, the quill\, and the rosary: competing sources of polit
 ical legitimacy in Mali'  - Prof Dorothea E. Schulz\, University of Cologn
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:he paper examines competing sources of political legitimacy in
  contemporary Mali through a two-pronged analysis. It reconstructs regiona
 lly diverse responses to the slogan of 'national reconciliation' articulat
 ed by the Malian after the 2012 coup d’État\, in response to Tuareg sep
 aratist and Islamist attempts to slice off the country’s northern territ
 ories. Tracing the genealogy of the slogan back to the independence jubile
 e celebrations in late 2011\, the paper demonstrates how and why the meani
 ngs of “reconciliation” resonate differently with different segments o
 f the Malian national “community”. The paper pays particular attention
  to the key role of the national army in official invocations of national 
 unity and in their contested reception\, arguing that the military\, as an
  institution and as an actual source of political legitimacy\, competes wi
 th “intellectual power” as the default mode of political legitimacy. I
 n a second step\, the paper reconstructs how over the past decades\, an id
 iom of Islamic moral renewal has become an alternative source of political
  legitimacy. The paper concludes with a discussion of the “fault lines o
 f the nation” revealed in the regionally diverse engagements with the th
 ree competing sources of legitimacy.     
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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