Up to 2012, Mali was a poster child of African democracy, despite
multiple signs of growing dissatisfaction with the democratic
experiment. Then disaster struck, bringing many of the nation's
unresolved contradictions to international attention. A military
coup carved off the country's south. A revolt by a coalition of
Tuareg and extremist Islamist forces shook the north. The events,
so violent and unexpected, forced experts to reassess Mali's
democratic institutions and the neoliberal economic reforms enacted
in conjunction with the move toward democracy. Rosa De Jorio's
detailed study of cultural heritage and its transformations
provides a key to understanding the impasse that confronts Malian
democracy. As she shows, postcolonial Mali privileged its cultural
heritage to display itself on the regional and international scene.
The neoliberal reforms both intensified and altered this trend.
Profiling heritage sites ranging from statues of colonial leaders
to women's museums to historic Timbuktu, De Jorio portrays how
various actors have deployed and contested notions of heritage.
These actors include not just Malian administrators and politicians
but UNESCO, and non-state NGOs. She also delves into the
intricacies of heritage politics from the perspective of Malian
actors and groups, as producers and receivers--but always highly
informed and critically engaged--of international, national and
local cultural initiatives.
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