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Accepted Paper:
The "crisis" in Mali (2012-...) and the shifts in knowledge production: who is thinking the links between intervention and legitimacy
Isaline Bergamaschi
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Paper short abstract:
This paper analyses how the 'crisis' in Mali since 2012 has transformed knowledge production. It focuses on the rise of the discipline of international relations and looks at the implications of that shift for what we know about international intervention and legitimacy in the country.
Paper long abstract:
The paper proposes a critical litterature review of the works in political science produced about Mali since 2012, and in particular the issues of international intervention and legitimacy. After the country was identified as a case of islamist djihadism and global war on terror, the discipline of international relations rose in a field once dominated by African studies. The paper informs that shift from a quantitative perspective thanks to an exhaustive bibliography elaborated by the author, and also looks the implications of that shift, particularly the following aspects: the import of labels and categories used in other contexts, the contributions and gaps that exist in the existing works and approches, and the increasing cognitive dissonance between international agendas and Malian scholars.