After Revolution : : Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua / / Florence E. Babb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Babb, Florence E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution (1979-1990) initiated a broad program of social transformation to improve the situation of the working class and poor, women, and other non-elite groups through agrarian reform, restructured urban employment, and wide access to health care, education, and social services. This book explores how Nicaragua's least powerful citizens have fared in the years since the Sandinista revolution, as neoliberal governments have rolled back these state-supported reforms and introduced measures to promote the development of a market-driven economy. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted throughout the 1990s, Florence Babb describes the negative consequences that have followed the return to a capitalist path, especially for women and low-income citizens. In addition, she charts the growth of women's and other social movements (neighborhood, lesbian and gay, indigenous, youth, peace, and environmental) that have taken advantage of new openings for political mobilization. Her ethnographic portraits of a low-income barrio and of women's craft cooperatives powerfully link local, cultural responses to national and global processes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One INTRODUCTION Writing after Revolution -- Chapter Two NEGOTIATING SPACES The Gendered Politics of Location -- Chapter Three “MANAGUA IS NICARAGUA” Gender, Memory, and Cultural Politics -- Chapter Four A PLACE ON A MAP The Local and the National Viewed from the Barrio -- Chapter Five UNMAKING THE REVOLUTION Women, Urban Cooperatives, and Neoliberalism -- Chapter Six FROM COOPERATIVES TO MICROENTERPRISES IN THE POSTREVOLUTIONARY ERA -- Chapter Seven NARRATIVES OF DEVELOPMENT, NATIONHOOD, AND THE BODY -- Chapter Eight TOWARD A NEW POLITICAL CULTURE -- Chapter Nine CONCLUSION Remembering Nicaragua -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX