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To Defend This Sunrise
To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the
Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and
transnational modes of activism to remap the nation's racial order
under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy.
The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women
activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of
racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial
dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores
how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario
Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political,
economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the
Sandinista state's co-optation of multicultural discourse and
growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate
their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new
forms of \"multicultural dispossession.\" This concept describes the
ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of
its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of
democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal
practices and policies that undermine black political demands and
weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims
of these activists against the state.
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The Education of a Radical
In the tradition of My Car in Managua, this is a wise and captivating memoir of a young leftist radical’s transformation while spending ten months as a Sandinista revolutionary in the early 1980s, and his struggle to reconcile uncomfortable truths with his ideals of justice.
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Contradiction and conflict : the popular church in Nicaragua
Contradiction and Conflict explores the rich history, ideology, and development of the popular church in Nicaragua. From careful assessments within the context of Nicaragua's revolutionary period (1970s-1990), this book explains the historical conditions that worked to unify members of the Christian faith and the subsequent factors that fragmented the Christian community into at least four identifiable groups with religious and political differences, contradictions, and conflicts. Debra Sabia describes and analyzes the rise, growth, and fragmentation of the popular church and assesses the effect of the Christian base communities on religion, politics, and the nation's social revolutionary experiment.
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The Ends of Modernization
The Ends of Modernization
studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United
States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War.
David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of
modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they
gave way to human rights protection, neoliberalism, and
sustainability. Using archival material, newspapers, literature,
and interviews with historical actors in countries across Latin
America, the United States, and Europe, Lee demonstrates how
conflict between the United States and Nicaragua shaped larger
international development policy and transformed the Cold War.
In Nicaragua, the backlash to modernization took the form of the
Sandinista Revolution which ousted President Anastasio Somoza
Debayle in July 1979. In the wake of the earlier reconstruction of
Managua after the devastating 1972 earthquake and instigated by the
revolutionary shift of power in the city, the Sandinista Revolution
incited radical changes that challenged the frankly ideological and
economic motivations of modernization. In response to threats to
its ideological dominance regionally and globally, the United
States began to promote new paradigms of development built around
human rights, entrepreneurial internationalism, indigenous rights,
and sustainable development.
Lee traces the ways Nicaraguans made their country central to
the contest over development ideals beginning in the 1960s,
transforming how political and economic development were imagined
worldwide. By illustrating how ideas about ecology and sustainable
development became linked to geopolitical conflict during and after
the Cold War, The Ends of Modernization provides a history
of the late Cold War that connects the contest between the two
then-prevailing superpowers to trends that shape our present,
globalized, multipolar world.
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Surface and subsurface runoff generation processes in a poorly gauged tropical coastal catchment : a study from Nicaragua : dissertation
Hydrological research in humid tropics is particularly challenging because of highly variable hydrological conditions and high socio-economic stresses caused by rapid population increase, as is the case of Nicaragua. The objective of this research is to understand the surface and subsurface runoff generation processes in a poorly gauged coastal catchment in Nicaragua under variable humid tropical conditions. Specifically, it focuses on identifying geomorphological and hydro-climatic controls on catchment response at different spatio-temporal scales and studies the link between hydrological processes and ecosystem conditions.
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Shipwrecked Identities
Global identity politics rest heavily on notions of ethnicity and authenticity. In contemporary Latin America there is a resurgence of indigenous claims for cultural and political autonomy and for the benefits of economic development. Yet these identities have often been taken for granted. In this historical ethnography, Baron Pineda traces the history of the port town of Bilwi, now known officially as Puerto Cabezas, on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua to explore the development and function of racial categories in this region. In the process, he provides insight into the causes and meaning of social movements and political turmoil. Shipwrecked Identities also includes important critical analysis of the role of anthropologists and other North American scholars in the Contra-Sandinista conflict as well as the ways these scholars have defined ethnic identities in Latin America.
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