A Nicaraguan exceptionalism?: : debating the legacy of the Sandinista revolution / / edited by 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 mur...

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Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: exceptionalism and agency in Nicaragua's revolutionary heritage / Hilary Francis
  • 'We didn't want to be like Somoza's Guardia': policing, crime and Nicaraguan exceptionalism / Robert Sierakowski
  • 'The revolution was so many things' / Fernanda Soto
  • Nicaraguan food policy: between self-sufficiency and dependency / Christiane Berth
  • On Sandinista ideas of past connections to the Soviet Union and Nicaraguan exceptionalism / Johannes Wilm
  • Agrarian reform in Nicaragu in the 1980s: lights and shadows of its legacy / José Luis Rocha
  • The difference the revolution made: decision-making in Liberal and Sandinista communities / Hilary Francis
  • Grassroots verticalism?: A Comunidad Eclesial de Base in rural Nicaragua / David Cooper
  • Nicaraguan legacies: advances and setbacks in feminist and LGBTQ activism / Florence E. Babb
  • Conclusion: exceptionalism and Nicaragua's many revolutions / Justin Wolfe.