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  • Military parade in Mali: understanding Malian politics through spectacle

  • Alioune Sow
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Modern African Studies / Volume 59 / Issue 2 / June 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 June 2021, pp. 219-235
    Print publication:
    June 2021

  • This essay argues that the Independence Day's military parade in Mali has become a strategic site to negotiate fragile military and civil relations, and a repository to promote social change through the military experience. Drawing on field observations of the parade of the 50th anniversary of Independence in Bamako and the literature on political transitions, this essay demonstrates that military parades constitute meaningful sites for alternative engagements with democratic transitions. It examines the tactics and mechanisms deployed by the Malian national army to negotiate past human rights violations and authoritarian practices, as well as to seek the army's rehabilitation following the collapse of the military regime. By analysing military parades as a form and practice consolidating the ‘social contract’ between the army and the public after the political transition, this article contributes to the scholarship on transition and the study of military parades within the African continent.

  • 8 - Free Staters, 1922–1923

  • Conor Morrissey, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923
    Published online:
    11 October 2019
    Print publication:
    10 October 2019, pp 203-215

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the neglected experience of Protestants who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Irish Free State that it brought about. The first section examines Protestant nationalists, such as Ernest Blythe, W. B. Yeats, and Alice Stopford Green, who welcomed the cessation of hostilities and compromise with England. The second section discusses Protestant servicemen in the Free State, or National Army during the Irish Civil War. It analyses the social, economic, geographical, and confessional background of these soldiers. It describes how this minority, serving in what was described as ‘the Army of the most Catholic nation in the world’, retained a separate identity, largely by means of the appointment of Protestant chaplains to the forces.