War on Terror and Social Networks in Mali

Author(s):
Gutelius, D.
Published
2006
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

How the US has chosen to carry out and rhetoricize its War on Terror with the Malian government has had important consequences for the political and economic stability of northern Mali. Pre-existing political and economic disparities have grown since 2002, spurring deeper social and cultural shifts and bringing a group of young, reformist Muslim intellectuals to leadership roles in new kinds of community-based organizations. The author explores these processes and their implications for social networks and corporate identity in Malian society north of the Niger Bend.

Mali
Date issued
2006
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Review (2006), Vol. 17, no. 1, p. 38-39
hdl
1887/17066