A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism Debating the Legacy of the Sandinista Revolution 1st Edition Hilary Francis 9781908857781

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• ISBN 13: 9781908857781
• Author: Hilary Francis

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.

Table of contents:

1. ‘We didn’t want to be like Somoza’s Guardia’: policing,

2. ‘The revolution was so many things’ 45

3. Nicaraguan food policy: between self-sufficiency and dependency 61

4. On Sandinista ideas of past connections to the Soviet Union

5. Agrarian reform in Nicaragua in the 1980s: lights and shadows

6. The difference the revolution made: decision-making in Liberal

7. Grassroots verticalism? A Comunidad Eclesial de Base in rural

8. Nicaraguan legacies: advances and setbacks in feminist

9. Conclusion: exceptionalism and Nicaragua’s many revolutions 179

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