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DESCRIPTION:Maxwell African Scholars Union Presents: A Sinking Ship of Stat
 e: Understanding Mali’s Crisis Bruce Whitehouse Once considered a democrat
 ic success story\, the West African country of Mali experienced a dramatic
  rise in insecurity in late 2011\, precipitating the coup that toppled an 
 elected president from power and the takeover of its northern half by rebe
 l groups. In this talk\, Bruce Whitehouse traces the decline of state powe
 r in Mali and reflects on prospects for restoring peace and democracy in t
 hat West African country. Bruce Whitehouse is Assistant Professor of Anthr
 opology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lehigh Universi
 ty in Bethlehem\, Pennsylvania\, where he is also associated with the Glob
 alization and Social Change Initiative and the Africana Studies Program. H
 e has conducted field research in Nigeria\, the Republic of Congo\, and Ma
 li. His book Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile\, Dignity\, 
 Belonging\, an ethnography of transnational migration between the western 
 Sahel and the Congo Basin\, was published in 2012 by Indiana University Pr
 ess. He was on a Fulbright scholarship in Bamako\, Mali last March when a 
 coup d’état toppled that country’s government\; he remained in Bamako for 
 three months after the coup\, completing his fieldwork and blogging about 
 events on the ground in the Malian capital. Lunch Will Be Served February 
 8\, 2013 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm 341 Eggers Hall
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SUMMARY:Maxwell African Scholars Union Presents: An Sinking Ship of State
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Maxwell African Scholars Union Presents: A Sin
 king Ship of State: Understanding Mali’s Crisis Bruce Whitehouse Once cons
 idered a democratic success story\, the West African country of Mali exper
 ienced a dramatic rise in insecurity in late 2011\, precipitating the coup
  that toppled an elected president from power and the takeover of its nort
 hern half by rebel groups. In this talk\, Bruce Whitehouse traces the decl
 ine of state power in Mali and reflects on prospects for restoring peace a
 nd democracy in that West African country. Bruce Whitehouse is Assistant P
 rofessor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology a
 t Lehigh University in Bethlehem\, Pennsylvania\, where he is also associa
 ted with the Globalization and Social Change Initiative and the Africana S
 tudies Program. He has conducted field research in Nigeria\, the Republic 
 of Congo\, and Mali. His book Migrants and Strangers in an African City: E
 xile\, Dignity\, Belonging\, an ethnography of transnational migration bet
 ween the western Sahel and the Congo Basin\, was published in 2012 by Indi
 ana University Press. He was on a Fulbright scholarship in Bamako\, Mali l
 ast March when a coup d’état toppled that country’s government\; he remain
 ed in Bamako for three months after the coup\, completing his fieldwork an
 d blogging about events on the ground in the Malian capital. Lunch Will Be
  Served February 8\, 2013 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm 341 Eggers Hall
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