Rifle, Pen, and Prayer Beads: Constructing Political Legitimacy in Mali.
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| Název: | Rifle, Pen, and Prayer Beads: Constructing Political Legitimacy in Mali. |
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| Autoři: | Schulz, Dorothea E. |
| Zdroj: | Africa Today; Fall2023, Vol. 70 Issue 1, p1-10, 10p |
| Témata: | LEGITIMACY of governments, HEADS of state, SOCIAL theory, STATE power, RIFLES |
| Geografický termín: | MALI |
| Abstrakt: | On August 18, 2020, after months of popular unrest targeting the increasingly unpopular presidency of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and rallies coordinated by Imam Mahmoud Dicko, a leading figure of Muslim opposition, a group of colonels from the Kati military base seized power and forced President Keita's resignation. Beetham's (1991a) framing of people's assessment of legitimacy on the basis of rule validity, rather than on the basis of legality, counters the tendency in political science and legal theory to equate legitimacy with legality. "The Rifle, the Quill, the Rosary and the Lineage in Debates over Authority and State Integration of the Kayes Region: Competing Actors and Subjectivities in Debates over Legacies of Slavery and Access to (State) Resources."Paper presented to the workshop "Rifle, Quill, and Rosary: Competing Sources and Corporate Struggles for Political Legitimacy in Mali,". [Extracted from the article] |
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