A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism?
University of London Press (Verlag)
978-1-908857-57-6 (ISBN)
In recent years, child
migrants from Central America have arrived in the United States in
unprecedented numbers. But whilst minors from Honduras, Guatemala and El
Salvador make the perilous journey to the north, their Nicaraguan peers have
remained in Central America. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and
far fewer gang problems when compared with her neighbours.
Why is Nicaragua so different? The present
government has promulgated a discourse of Nicaraguan exceptionalism, arguing
that Nicaragua is unique thanks to heritage of the 1979 Sandinista revolution.
This volume critically interrogates that claim, asking whether the legacy of
the revolution is truly exceptional. An interdisciplinary work, the book brings
together historians, anthropologists and sociologists to explore the
multifarious ways in which the revolutionary past continues to shape public
policy - and daily life - in Nicaragua's tumultuous present.
Hilary Francis is a fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, and a historian specializing in the history of the environment in Nicaragua and US-Nicaragua relations.
Introduction by Hilary Francis, University of London
1. The
Revolution Was So Many Things... by Fernanda Soto,
Universidad Centroamericana
2. Nicaraguan Legacies: Advances and Setbacks in Feminist and LGBT
Activism by Florence Babb,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3. What Difference Could a Revolution
Make? Vice, Violence and Policing in Nicaragua Before and After 1979 by Robert Sierakowski, University of the West
Indies, Mona.
4. The 80's Agrarian Reform
in Nicaragua: Lights and Shadows of its Legacy by
Jose Luis Rocha, Universidad Centroamericana
5.
The Difference the
Revolution Made: Comparing Decision-Making in Liberal and Sandinista
Communities by Hilary Francis, University of London
6. Liberation
and Ayuda: the Ecclesiales de Base in Rural Nicaragua by David
Cooper, University College London
7. Nicaraguan Food Policy between Self-Sufficiency and
Dependency by Christiane Berth, Institute of European Global
Studies, University of Basel
8. On
Nicaraguan Ideas of Exceptionalism and the Importance of Past Connections to
the Soviet Union by Johannes
Wilm, Goldsmiths College London
Conclusion by Justin Wolfe, Tulane University
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.07.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 illustrations; 3 Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 389 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-908857-57-9 / 1908857579 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-908857-57-6 / 9781908857576 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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