Dorothea E Schulz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 80675 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dorothea E Schulz |
| NOMBRES | Dorothea E |
| APELLIDO | Schulz |
| FIRMA | SCHULZ D E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cologne |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 222 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Rifle, Pen, and Prayer Beads
Rifle, Pen, and Prayer Beads:Constructing Political Legitimacy in Mali Dorothea E. Schulz (bio) Introduction 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. Ignoring international call…
Fragments of Legitimacy
This article examines official constructions of political legitimacy since the introduction of multiparty democracy in Mali and asks how some segments of the population have responded to them. We argue that these constructions evolved in the context of three symbolic repertoires, symbolized by the rifle, the ballpoint pen, and prayer beads. In this process, politicians have mobilized repertoires in selective and changing ways, subject to continuo…
Masculinity, Morality, and the State in Northern Kenya
Since the early 2000s, armed attacks and inter-ethnic violence have increased in parts of northern Kenya's Baringo County. This article examines how the Maa-speaking Il Chamus men respond to the growing insecurity as they draw on long-standing notions of morality and on the Kenyan state. In contrast to tropes of (agro)pastoralist northern Kenya being plagued by inter-ethnic animosity, lawlessness, and absence of governance, Il Chamus men situate …
Validating Prophethood
In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for a systematic analysis of processes of “authorization” by which religious leaders gain authority and recognition, both in the eyes of their followers and of a broader public. Our analysis starts from the assumption that if we wish to understand the role of media technologies in the process by which followers confer religious authority to a leader, we need to consider the material and social co…
Studying Muslim Minorities in Subsaharan Africa
The introduction to the special issue on Muslim minorities in Subsaharan Africa argues that a focus on the circumstances and challenges faced by them opens up productive lines of inquiry into forms of religious coexistence and plurality, in Subsaharan Africa and elsewhere. Starting from a conceptual reflection on different forms of religious plurality, the article enters a plea for more a sustained reflection on the effects of state regulation of…
Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali
An innovative examination of our understanding of political legitimacy in Mali, and its wider implications for democratization and political modernity in the Global South. The 2012 coup d'état in Mali, and the political destabilization that followed, brought an abrupt end to the country's success story as a "donor darling" and as a model of successful democratization. In spite of signing a peace treaty, Muslim militants continue to launch attacks…
Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali
Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali
Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali
An innovative examination of our understanding of political legitimacy in Mali, and its wider implications for democratization and political modernity in the Global South.
Africanist Anthropology
A pervasive concern of Africanist anthropology since the 1970s has been to dispel the legacy of the discipline’s association with European colonialism. Since the middle of the 1980s, Africanist scholarship branched out into several directions while seeking to elucidate the historical processes that define Africa’s place in the world. Early in the 1990s, debates in Africanist anthropology came to center on the notion of modernity. Studies on relig…
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a h…
Regarding Muslims
Regarding Muslims: from slavery to post-apartheid." Anthropology Southern Africa, 39(3), pp. 248–249
Introduction
At a time when born-again Christianity and reformist Islam are among the fastest-growing religious traditions in present-day Africa, more attention needs to be paid to religion as a crucial factor in the dynamic process of constructing, challenging, and transforming gendered identities.So far few studies have addressed issues of gender beyond the all-too-popular focus on Christian and Muslim women who "resist" the dominant patriarchal order, or, …
Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia
Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Contemporary Mali
This article counters the 'female bias' of scholarship on Islam and gender in Africa by exploring competing understandings of ideal masculinity and what it means to be a respectable Muslim in urban Mali. Special attention is paid to competing constructions of Muslim masculinity that inform the project of Islamic moral and political reform that has gained currency in southern and northern Mali in recent decades. The article scrutinizes the double …
Mediating authority
This article offers a close analysis of the media performances of a particularly successful preacher in Mali, Sheikh Cherif Haidara, to study how authority is generated in the interaction between a leader and his followers, and to examine the role of mass mediation in this process. Informed by Weber's reflections on the nature of charismatic authority, the article takes charisma as a form of appeal that is mediated through aesthetic forms, and re…
Civic Agency in Africa
Examines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed. The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Wes…
What makes a good minority Muslim? Educational policy and the paradoxes of Muslim schooling in Uganda
Politics of Religious Schooling
In recent decades, religiously motivated schools have gained a new social and political presence and significance in many African countries. Although religious networks and organizations-Christian as well as Muslim-have played a central role in providing education in colonial and postcolonial settings, liberalization and privatization measures since the 1980s have opened up new opportunities for religious engagement at all educational levels. The…
(En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness
The article takes the role of school education in the historical marginalization of Muslims in Uganda to argue that recent transformations in the educational field have created new opportunities for Muslims to become professionally successful and to articulate a self-assertive identity as minority Muslims. In a second step the articles points to the particular significance that the recent shift in Muslims' educational opportunities bears for Musl…
Dis/Embodying Authority
This article explores how the introduction of sound reproduction technologies inflects what were previously considered authoritative, standardized, and gender-specific forms of religious leadership and how these changes affect in turn the (gendered) subjects of media practice. Examining the recent, controversial public presence of female radio preachers in Mali, the article elucidates the often ambivalent reactions to their radio-mediated dissoci…
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media
Renewal and Enlightenment
The article takes Muslim women’s biographic self-constructions as proper believers in urban Mali as a window to inquire into the kind of responsibility and moral agency that these women assume and make central to their search for ‘closeness to God’. Focusing on the moral agency the women claim for themselves, it is argued, brings insights into their particular conception of collective and personal renewal and, by implication, into the particular …
Channeling” the powers of God’s Word
Starting with the controversial esoteric employment of audio recordings by followers of the charismatic Muslim preacher Sharif Haidara in Mali, the article explores the dynamics emerging at the interface of different technologies and techniques employed by those engaging the realm of the Divine. I focus attention on the “border zone” between, on the one hand, techniques for appropriating scriptures based on long-standing religious conventions, an…
'In Pursuit of Publicity'
The article explores the forms and contents of public communication made possible by local radio stations which have been mushrooming in various towns of Mali since 1992. As a case study about communication in a specific geographical area in south-eastern Mali, the article contributes to the on-going discussion on how mass media do affect and facilitate the formation of new communal identities in an increasingly globalised media world. As they br…
Promises of (im)mediate salvation
In this article, I take the highly successful Muslim preacher Cherif Haidara in Mali as a starting point to explore the conditions that, throughout the contemporary Muslim world, facilitate the rise to prominence of new types of religious leaders, who, by virtue of their media performances and in their roles as preachers, personal counselors, or legal advisers, attract broad constituencies of believers. I assess recent shifts in the normative, in…
Charisma and Brotherhood' Revisited
The case study of the Muslim movement Ansar Dine and its charismatic leader Sharif Haidara illustrates that the debate on, and public significance of, Islam has been shifting in recent years and how broadcast media played into this process. Haidara's extensive use of (mostly aural) media allows him to combine traditional elements of religious authority with new credentials. His public prominence and success suggests that broadcasting contributes …
Dis/Embodying Authority
This article explores how the introduction of sound reproduction technologies inflects what were previously considered authoritative, standardized, and gender-specific forms of religious leadership and how these changes affect in turn the (gendered) subjects of media practice. Examining the recent, controversial public presence of female radio preachers in Mali, the article elucidates the often ambivalent reactions to their radio-mediated dissoci…
Music Videos and the Effeminate Vices of Urban Culture in Mali
This article focuses on a number of highly successful female pop singers in Mali whose video music clips and music shows make up a major share of urban people's daily broadcast consumption. The article explores the reasons for the astonishing success of the singers by locating the consumption and interpretation of their songs in Malian popular and scholarly discourses on cultural authenticity and moral decline. Some Malian scholars emphasise that…
Political Factions, Ideological Fictions
The article examines debates surrounding the current family law reform in Mali to account for the way in which broader processes of social change, an international and national context of women's rights activism, as well as various interest groups will shape the ultimate outcome of legislative reform. The article focuses on the five main components of the proposed reform and analyzes the positions of the most important groups participating in the…
(Re)Turning to Proper Muslim Practice
Dorothea E. Schulz, (Re)Turning to Proper Muslim Practice: Islamic Moral Renewal and Women's Conflicting Assertions of Sunni Identity in Urban Mali, Africa Today, Vol. 54, No. 4, Performing Islamic Revival in Africa (Summer, 2008), pp. 21-43
Competing Sartorial Assertions of Femininity and Muslim Identity in Mali
This article explores conflicting notions of morality, religion, virtue, and authenticity through an analysis of dress and identity politics in Mali. While many women in urban Mali claim that being a Muslim believer does not preclude one from cultivating a fashionable, modern look, they are challenged by other women who emphasize the representational function of dress. To the latter, the choice of a dress forms part of their public enactment of a…
Renewal and Enlightenment
The article takes Muslim women’s biographic self-constructions as proper believers in urban Mali as a window to inquire into the kind of responsibility and moral agency that these women assume and make central to their search for ‘closeness to God’. Focusing on the moral agency the women claim for themselves, it is argued, brings insights into their particular conception of collective and personal renewal and, by implication, into the particular …
Politics of Religious Schooling
In recent decades, religiously motivated schools have gained a new social and political presence and significance in many African countries. Although religious networks and organizations-Christian as well as Muslim-have played a central role in providing education in colonial and postcolonial settings, liberalization and privatization measures since the 1980s have opened up new opportunities for religious engagement at all educational levels. The…
Evoking moral community, fragmenting Muslim discourse
The article explores the processes that have allowed Islam to gain great appeal as a community-building idiom in Mali since the introduction of multiparty democracy in 1991. Drawing on the mediatic performances of the charismatic preacher Sharif Haidara, the article analyzes how new media technologies facilitate and play into Islam's new prominence and how they influence the particular ways in which Islam is presented in the public sphere. It exa…
Drama, Desire, and Debate
In this article, the author takes the engagement of Malian urbanites with US American soap operas and Brazilian telenovelas as a point of entry into an exploration of the forms of public subjectivity that mass-mediated entertainment culture in Mali creates, and simultaneously presupposes. To that end, she examines the extent to which, and forms in which television intervenes in the daily experiences of different groups of urban consumers, as the …
Fragments of Legitimacy
This article examines official constructions of political legitimacy since the introduction of multiparty democracy in Mali and asks how some segments of the population have responded to them. We argue that these constructions evolved in the context of three symbolic repertoires, symbolized by the rifle, the ballpoint pen, and prayer beads. In this process, politicians have mobilized repertoires in selective and changing ways, subject to continuo…
Regarding Muslims
Regarding Muslims: from slavery to post-apartheid." Anthropology Southern Africa, 39(3), pp. 248–249
Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Contemporary Mali
This article counters the 'female bias' of scholarship on Islam and gender in Africa by exploring competing understandings of ideal masculinity and what it means to be a respectable Muslim in urban Mali. Special attention is paid to competing constructions of Muslim masculinity that inform the project of Islamic moral and political reform that has gained currency in southern and northern Mali in recent decades. The article scrutinizes the double …
Channeling” the powers of God’s Word
Starting with the controversial esoteric employment of audio recordings by followers of the charismatic Muslim preacher Sharif Haidara in Mali, the article explores the dynamics emerging at the interface of different technologies and techniques employed by those engaging the realm of the Divine. I focus attention on the “border zone” between, on the one hand, techniques for appropriating scriptures based on long-standing religious conventions, an…
The World is Made by Talk
The article combines an interpretation of female adolescents’ fan practices with an exploration of new forms of “coming together” made possible the creation of local radio stations in urban Mali. To understand girls’ admiration for Malian women singers who, have become acclaimed stars in national and international arenas, the article explores their fan practices by reference to their current predicaments of “postponed becoming” a full-grown membe…
Introduction
At a time when born-again Christianity and reformist Islam are among the fastest-growing religious traditions in present-day Africa, more attention needs to be paid to religion as a crucial factor in the dynamic process of constructing, challenging, and transforming gendered identities.So far few studies have addressed issues of gender beyond the all-too-popular focus on Christian and Muslim women who "resist" the dominant patriarchal order, or, …
Mediating authority
This article offers a close analysis of the media performances of a particularly successful preacher in Mali, Sheikh Cherif Haidara, to study how authority is generated in the interaction between a leader and his followers, and to examine the role of mass mediation in this process. Informed by Weber's reflections on the nature of charismatic authority, the article takes charisma as a form of appeal that is mediated through aesthetic forms, and re…
(En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness
The article takes the role of school education in the historical marginalization of Muslims in Uganda to argue that recent transformations in the educational field have created new opportunities for Muslims to become professionally successful and to articulate a self-assertive identity as minority Muslims. In a second step the articles points to the particular significance that the recent shift in Muslims' educational opportunities bears for Musl…
Masculinity, Morality, and the State in Northern Kenya
Since the early 2000s, armed attacks and inter-ethnic violence have increased in parts of northern Kenya's Baringo County. This article examines how the Maa-speaking Il Chamus men respond to the growing insecurity as they draw on long-standing notions of morality and on the Kenyan state. In contrast to tropes of (agro)pastoralist northern Kenya being plagued by inter-ethnic animosity, lawlessness, and absence of governance, Il Chamus men situate …
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a h…
What makes a good minority Muslim? Educational policy and the paradoxes of Muslim schooling in Uganda
Das Gewicht der Rede
Music Videos and the Effeminate Vices of Urban Culture in Mali
This article focuses on a number of highly successful female pop singers in Mali whose video music clips and music shows make up a major share of urban people's daily broadcast consumption. The article explores the reasons for the astonishing success of the singers by locating the consumption and interpretation of their songs in Malian popular and scholarly discourses on cultural authenticity and moral decline. Some Malian scholars emphasise that…
The World is Made by Talk
The article combines an interpretation of female adolescents’ fan practices with an exploration of new forms of “coming together” made possible the creation of local radio stations in urban Mali. To understand girls’ admiration for Malian women singers who, have become acclaimed stars in national and international arenas, the article explores their fan practices by reference to their current predicaments of “postponed becoming” a full-grown membe…
Political Factions, Ideological Fictions
The article examines debates surrounding the current family law reform in Mali to account for the way in which broader processes of social change, an international and national context of women's rights activism, as well as various interest groups will shape the ultimate outcome of legislative reform. The article focuses on the five main components of the proposed reform and analyzes the positions of the most important groups participating in the…
Charisma and Brotherhood' Revisited
The case study of the Muslim movement Ansar Dine and its charismatic leader Sharif Haidara illustrates that the debate on, and public significance of, Islam has been shifting in recent years and how broadcast media played into this process. Haidara's extensive use of (mostly aural) media allows him to combine traditional elements of religious authority with new credentials. His public prominence and success suggests that broadcasting contributes …
Promises of (im)mediate salvation
In this article, I take the highly successful Muslim preacher Cherif Haidara in Mali as a starting point to explore the conditions that, throughout the contemporary Muslim world, facilitate the rise to prominence of new types of religious leaders, who, by virtue of their media performances and in their roles as preachers, personal counselors, or legal advisers, attract broad constituencies of believers. I assess recent shifts in the normative, in…
Competing Sartorial Assertions of Femininity and Muslim Identity in Mali
This article explores conflicting notions of morality, religion, virtue, and authenticity through an analysis of dress and identity politics in Mali. While many women in urban Mali claim that being a Muslim believer does not preclude one from cultivating a fashionable, modern look, they are challenged by other women who emphasize the representational function of dress. To the latter, the choice of a dress forms part of their public enactment of a…
Evoking moral community, fragmenting Muslim discourse
The article explores the processes that have allowed Islam to gain great appeal as a community-building idiom in Mali since the introduction of multiparty democracy in 1991. Drawing on the mediatic performances of the charismatic preacher Sharif Haidara, the article analyzes how new media technologies facilitate and play into Islam's new prominence and how they influence the particular ways in which Islam is presented in the public sphere. It exa…
Drama, Desire, and Debate
In this article, the author takes the engagement of Malian urbanites with US American soap operas and Brazilian telenovelas as a point of entry into an exploration of the forms of public subjectivity that mass-mediated entertainment culture in Mali creates, and simultaneously presupposes. To that end, she examines the extent to which, and forms in which television intervenes in the daily experiences of different groups of urban consumers, as the …
(Re)Turning to Proper Muslim Practice
Dorothea E. Schulz, (Re)Turning to Proper Muslim Practice: Islamic Moral Renewal and Women's Conflicting Assertions of Sunni Identity in Urban Mali, Africa Today, Vol. 54, No. 4, Performing Islamic Revival in Africa (Summer, 2008), pp. 21-43
Channeling” the powers of God’s Word
Starting with the controversial esoteric employment of audio recordings by followers of the charismatic Muslim preacher Sharif Haidara in Mali, the article explores the dynamics emerging at the interface of different technologies and techniques employed by those engaging the realm of the Divine. I focus attention on the “border zone” between, on the one hand, techniques for appropriating scriptures based on long-standing religious conventions, an…
Signal and Noise
Renewal and Enlightenment
The article takes Muslim women’s biographic self-constructions as proper believers in urban Mali as a window to inquire into the kind of responsibility and moral agency that these women assume and make central to their search for ‘closeness to God’. Focusing on the moral agency the women claim for themselves, it is argued, brings insights into their particular conception of collective and personal renewal and, by implication, into the particular …
Dis/Embodying Authority
This article explores how the introduction of sound reproduction technologies inflects what were previously considered authoritative, standardized, and gender-specific forms of religious leadership and how these changes affect in turn the (gendered) subjects of media practice. Examining the recent, controversial public presence of female radio preachers in Mali, the article elucidates the often ambivalent reactions to their radio-mediated dissoci…
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media
What makes a good minority Muslim? Educational policy and the paradoxes of Muslim schooling in Uganda
Politics of Religious Schooling
In recent decades, religiously motivated schools have gained a new social and political presence and significance in many African countries. Although religious networks and organizations-Christian as well as Muslim-have played a central role in providing education in colonial and postcolonial settings, liberalization and privatization measures since the 1980s have opened up new opportunities for religious engagement at all educational levels. The…
(En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness
The article takes the role of school education in the historical marginalization of Muslims in Uganda to argue that recent transformations in the educational field have created new opportunities for Muslims to become professionally successful and to articulate a self-assertive identity as minority Muslims. In a second step the articles points to the particular significance that the recent shift in Muslims' educational opportunities bears for Musl…
Civic Agency in Africa
Examines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed. The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Wes…
Mediating authority
This article offers a close analysis of the media performances of a particularly successful preacher in Mali, Sheikh Cherif Haidara, to study how authority is generated in the interaction between a leader and his followers, and to examine the role of mass mediation in this process. Informed by Weber's reflections on the nature of charismatic authority, the article takes charisma as a form of appeal that is mediated through aesthetic forms, and re…
Regarding Muslims
Regarding Muslims: from slavery to post-apartheid." Anthropology Southern Africa, 39(3), pp. 248–249
Introduction
At a time when born-again Christianity and reformist Islam are among the fastest-growing religious traditions in present-day Africa, more attention needs to be paid to religion as a crucial factor in the dynamic process of constructing, challenging, and transforming gendered identities.So far few studies have addressed issues of gender beyond the all-too-popular focus on Christian and Muslim women who "resist" the dominant patriarchal order, or, …
Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia
Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Contemporary Mali
This article counters the 'female bias' of scholarship on Islam and gender in Africa by exploring competing understandings of ideal masculinity and what it means to be a respectable Muslim in urban Mali. Special attention is paid to competing constructions of Muslim masculinity that inform the project of Islamic moral and political reform that has gained currency in southern and northern Mali in recent decades. The article scrutinizes the double …
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a h…
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