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Papers by Rosa De Jorio

Research paper thumbnail of Of Rumors and Transfers: The Short Life of Western-Educated Women's Associations in French Sudan (1955-1960)

Deleted Journal, 2020

This article focuses on the activities of independent organizations of women, their programs, and... more This article focuses on the activities of independent organizations of women, their programs, and their regional initiatives during the last period of colonization of French Sudan (now Mali). As colonial territories were increasingly gaining autonomy and self-representation, women's activists and their organizations worked to improve the status of women both within and outside the household. As independence approached, the independence party US-RDA was progressively morphing into a monolithic and autocratic machinery, intolerant vis-à-vis independent organizations (including women's groups). The US-RDA party leadership resorted to a series of tactics and strategies that divided women's groups and belittled their leadership, ultimately managing to dismantle their organizations and quell any resistance to US-RDA's dominance. This article chronicles women's effort to resist and influence US-RDA's gender politics, and some of the reasons behind the demise of those groups. It also reflects on some Malian women's more recent critical engagement with their activist past in an effort to develop a more gender-inclusive narrative of the nation. More broadly, this article elucidates some of the social divisions and political practices that continue to affect the work of Malian women's organizations even today.

Research paper thumbnail of The Facebook Archives of Timbuktu: Preserving Cultural Heritage Online and Reimagining a City's Future

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Mande Studies with Shaka Bagayogo: Imagining Post-National Futures in West Africa

Mande Studies, Jun 1, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction by the Editor-in-Chief

Mande Studies, Jun 1, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction by the Editor-in-Chief

Research paper thumbnail of Foreword by the Editor-In-Chief

Mande Studies, 2019

The present issue of the eJIFCC is composed of articles focused on topics discussed at the confer... more The present issue of the eJIFCC is composed of articles focused on topics discussed at the conference entitled “Laboratory medicine: meeting the needs of the Mediterranean nations” The conference was held this year in Rome between July 2-4, with professor Sergio Bernardini as the Conference President. The current issue is part one of a two-part series, and contains articles covering three sections of the conference, namely: • Transmissible diseases in the Mediterranean area; • Training and education in laboratory medicine; • Improving health with emerging technologies.

Research paper thumbnail of Même pas peur! Ethnographies of Security in the Sahel

Research paper thumbnail of Modelli divergenti e strategie individuali del matrimonio nel Mali contemporaneo

Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione …, 1996

... Inoltre, dando voce alle informazioni ricevute da Fatoumata, Moctar affermò che Ibrahim non d... more ... Inoltre, dando voce alle informazioni ricevute da Fatoumata, Moctar affermò che Ibrahim non dava abbastanza denaro alla moglie per pagare le spese familiari, che intratteneva diverse relazioni extra-matrimoniali, e che aveva modi vio-lenti con Fatoumata. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Sites of Postcolonial Identity: The Place of Women's Associations in Mali

Research paper thumbnail of Women's Associations in Mali From 1958-64: A View From 'Kencontres Africaines

Research paper thumbnail of Widows in Africa: A Non-Category

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Civil Society in West Africa

Research paper thumbnail of Remembering the Colonial Past

University of Illinois Press, 2017

This chapter examines the state memorialization of the colonial past via narratives, practices, a... more This chapter examines the state memorialization of the colonial past via narratives, practices, and visual culture. First, it briefly describes some of the ways in which French colonization was represented during the period of the one-party state (1960–1991), using them as a benchmark against which to gauge changes in those representations by the democratic and neoliberal state that followed. Second, it examines the state memorialization of French colonization since 1991, focusing on the Koulouba monument complex in Bamako, the largest series of monuments dedicated to Mali's colonial history. It details the emergence of a new narrative of colonization that suggests contacts, hybridity, and cross-feeding—a representation reflecting some of the experiences and narratives of Mali's cosmopolitan political and cultural elites. Third, it analyze Ségouvian citizens' perspectives on the government's memorialization project in light of their experience with state encroachment...

Research paper thumbnail of Commemorating the Nation’s Heroes in Mali’s Neoliberal Democracy

University of Illinois Press, 2017

This chapter presents an overview of some of the most relevant state initiatives in the field of ... more This chapter presents an overview of some of the most relevant state initiatives in the field of cultural heritage from 1992 to 2012. The first section provides a historical background against which to locate the democratic government's work in the field of cultural heritage and public culture. The second section presents an overview of some of the heritage work carried out under Alpha Oumar Konaré's administration (1992–2002). It documents state efforts to build a democratic culture as well as to cultivate rational–critical perspectives vis-è-vis the national past. The third and last section describes heritage work under Amadou Toumani Touré (2002–12), analyzing some continuities but also noticeable shifts, particularly in his adoption of the transnational trope of reconciliation and the proliferation of public rituals of appeasement and consensus building. This section also examines the shrinking opposition's countermemory project; the rekindling of struggles around Mo...

Research paper thumbnail of De Jorio, Rosa. "Public Debate under Amadou Toumani Touré." Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, June 10, 2013, http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/310-public-debate-under-amadou-toumani-toure

Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of the Nation and Democracy in Mali A View from Modibo Keita’s Memorial

Le contenu de ce site relève de la législation française sur la propriété intellectuelle et est l... more Le contenu de ce site relève de la législation française sur la propriété intellectuelle et est la propriété exclusive de l'éditeur. Les œuvres figurant sur ce site peuvent être consultées et reproduites sur un support papier ou numérique sous réserve qu'elles soient strictement réservées à un usage soit personnel, soit scientifique ou pédagogique excluant toute exploitation commerciale. La reproduction devra obligatoirement mentionner l'éditeur, le nom de la revue, l'auteur et la référence du document. Toute autre reproduction est interdite sauf accord préalable de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Revues.org est un portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales développé par le Cléo, Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CNRS, EHESS, UP, UAPV).

Research paper thumbnail of Women's Organizations, the Ideology of Kinship, and the State in Postindependence Mali

Research paper thumbnail of The Story of the Nation and Democracy in Mali

Cahiers d'Études africaines, 2003

This paper is a study of the complex relationship between memory and political identity in Mali d... more This paper is a study of the complex relationship between memory and political identity in Mali during Alpha Omar Konare's presidency (1992

Research paper thumbnail of Mande Humanism, Cultural Brokerage, and Religious Grace: Rethinking the Gendered Nature of Power in Mali

Research paper thumbnail of Review of The Power of Women's Informal Networks: Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa. Bandana

This is a substantive collection of essays which centers on a variety of women’s informal network... more This is a substantive collection of essays which centers on a variety of women’s informal networks in two distinct regions of the world, South Asia (four case-studies) and West Africa (three case-studies). The focus on women’s informal networks allows authors to foreground women’s agency, and in particular third world women’s, which still remains scarcely represented in much of the literature in the social sciences. This lack of representation is explained as due both to the characters of knowledge production, including the market forces that regulate such production, as well as the forms of women’s agency. A significant part of the available social studies literature centers on the study of women’s movements in Europe and the United States, is made by western scholars, and privileges English as the medium of knowledge transmission. It follows that “The lessons from the lives of more than half of the world’s women are yet to become central to theories about women’s lives from a glob...

Research paper thumbnail of Of Rumors and Transfers: The Short Life of Western-Educated Women's Associations in French Sudan (1955-1960)

Deleted Journal, 2020

This article focuses on the activities of independent organizations of women, their programs, and... more This article focuses on the activities of independent organizations of women, their programs, and their regional initiatives during the last period of colonization of French Sudan (now Mali). As colonial territories were increasingly gaining autonomy and self-representation, women's activists and their organizations worked to improve the status of women both within and outside the household. As independence approached, the independence party US-RDA was progressively morphing into a monolithic and autocratic machinery, intolerant vis-à-vis independent organizations (including women's groups). The US-RDA party leadership resorted to a series of tactics and strategies that divided women's groups and belittled their leadership, ultimately managing to dismantle their organizations and quell any resistance to US-RDA's dominance. This article chronicles women's effort to resist and influence US-RDA's gender politics, and some of the reasons behind the demise of those groups. It also reflects on some Malian women's more recent critical engagement with their activist past in an effort to develop a more gender-inclusive narrative of the nation. More broadly, this article elucidates some of the social divisions and political practices that continue to affect the work of Malian women's organizations even today.

Research paper thumbnail of The Facebook Archives of Timbuktu: Preserving Cultural Heritage Online and Reimagining a City's Future

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Mande Studies with Shaka Bagayogo: Imagining Post-National Futures in West Africa

Mande Studies, Jun 1, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction by the Editor-in-Chief

Mande Studies, Jun 1, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction by the Editor-in-Chief

Research paper thumbnail of Foreword by the Editor-In-Chief

Mande Studies, 2019

The present issue of the eJIFCC is composed of articles focused on topics discussed at the confer... more The present issue of the eJIFCC is composed of articles focused on topics discussed at the conference entitled “Laboratory medicine: meeting the needs of the Mediterranean nations” The conference was held this year in Rome between July 2-4, with professor Sergio Bernardini as the Conference President. The current issue is part one of a two-part series, and contains articles covering three sections of the conference, namely: • Transmissible diseases in the Mediterranean area; • Training and education in laboratory medicine; • Improving health with emerging technologies.

Research paper thumbnail of Même pas peur! Ethnographies of Security in the Sahel

Research paper thumbnail of Modelli divergenti e strategie individuali del matrimonio nel Mali contemporaneo

Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione …, 1996

... Inoltre, dando voce alle informazioni ricevute da Fatoumata, Moctar affermò che Ibrahim non d... more ... Inoltre, dando voce alle informazioni ricevute da Fatoumata, Moctar affermò che Ibrahim non dava abbastanza denaro alla moglie per pagare le spese familiari, che intratteneva diverse relazioni extra-matrimoniali, e che aveva modi vio-lenti con Fatoumata. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Sites of Postcolonial Identity: The Place of Women's Associations in Mali

Research paper thumbnail of Women's Associations in Mali From 1958-64: A View From 'Kencontres Africaines

Research paper thumbnail of Widows in Africa: A Non-Category

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Civil Society in West Africa

Research paper thumbnail of Remembering the Colonial Past

University of Illinois Press, 2017

This chapter examines the state memorialization of the colonial past via narratives, practices, a... more This chapter examines the state memorialization of the colonial past via narratives, practices, and visual culture. First, it briefly describes some of the ways in which French colonization was represented during the period of the one-party state (1960–1991), using them as a benchmark against which to gauge changes in those representations by the democratic and neoliberal state that followed. Second, it examines the state memorialization of French colonization since 1991, focusing on the Koulouba monument complex in Bamako, the largest series of monuments dedicated to Mali's colonial history. It details the emergence of a new narrative of colonization that suggests contacts, hybridity, and cross-feeding—a representation reflecting some of the experiences and narratives of Mali's cosmopolitan political and cultural elites. Third, it analyze Ségouvian citizens' perspectives on the government's memorialization project in light of their experience with state encroachment...

Research paper thumbnail of Commemorating the Nation’s Heroes in Mali’s Neoliberal Democracy

University of Illinois Press, 2017

This chapter presents an overview of some of the most relevant state initiatives in the field of ... more This chapter presents an overview of some of the most relevant state initiatives in the field of cultural heritage from 1992 to 2012. The first section provides a historical background against which to locate the democratic government's work in the field of cultural heritage and public culture. The second section presents an overview of some of the heritage work carried out under Alpha Oumar Konaré's administration (1992–2002). It documents state efforts to build a democratic culture as well as to cultivate rational–critical perspectives vis-è-vis the national past. The third and last section describes heritage work under Amadou Toumani Touré (2002–12), analyzing some continuities but also noticeable shifts, particularly in his adoption of the transnational trope of reconciliation and the proliferation of public rituals of appeasement and consensus building. This section also examines the shrinking opposition's countermemory project; the rekindling of struggles around Mo...

Research paper thumbnail of De Jorio, Rosa. "Public Debate under Amadou Toumani Touré." Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, June 10, 2013, http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/310-public-debate-under-amadou-toumani-toure

Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of the Nation and Democracy in Mali A View from Modibo Keita’s Memorial

Le contenu de ce site relève de la législation française sur la propriété intellectuelle et est l... more Le contenu de ce site relève de la législation française sur la propriété intellectuelle et est la propriété exclusive de l'éditeur. Les œuvres figurant sur ce site peuvent être consultées et reproduites sur un support papier ou numérique sous réserve qu'elles soient strictement réservées à un usage soit personnel, soit scientifique ou pédagogique excluant toute exploitation commerciale. La reproduction devra obligatoirement mentionner l'éditeur, le nom de la revue, l'auteur et la référence du document. Toute autre reproduction est interdite sauf accord préalable de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Revues.org est un portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales développé par le Cléo, Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CNRS, EHESS, UP, UAPV).

Research paper thumbnail of Women's Organizations, the Ideology of Kinship, and the State in Postindependence Mali

Research paper thumbnail of The Story of the Nation and Democracy in Mali

Cahiers d'Études africaines, 2003

This paper is a study of the complex relationship between memory and political identity in Mali d... more This paper is a study of the complex relationship between memory and political identity in Mali during Alpha Omar Konare's presidency (1992

Research paper thumbnail of Mande Humanism, Cultural Brokerage, and Religious Grace: Rethinking the Gendered Nature of Power in Mali

Research paper thumbnail of Review of The Power of Women's Informal Networks: Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa. Bandana

This is a substantive collection of essays which centers on a variety of women’s informal network... more This is a substantive collection of essays which centers on a variety of women’s informal networks in two distinct regions of the world, South Asia (four case-studies) and West Africa (three case-studies). The focus on women’s informal networks allows authors to foreground women’s agency, and in particular third world women’s, which still remains scarcely represented in much of the literature in the social sciences. This lack of representation is explained as due both to the characters of knowledge production, including the market forces that regulate such production, as well as the forms of women’s agency. A significant part of the available social studies literature centers on the study of women’s movements in Europe and the United States, is made by western scholars, and privileges English as the medium of knowledge transmission. It follows that “The lessons from the lives of more than half of the world’s women are yet to become central to theories about women’s lives from a glob...