Sound Bite
The indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples along Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast, once colonized by the British, have long sought to establish their autonomy vis-� -vis the dominant Spanish-influenced regions of the Pacific coast. The book provides a wide overview of the autonomy process by looking at the historical background of autonomy, claims to land, language rights, and land demarcation and communal forestry projects.
This book seeks to satisfy the globally emerging interest in the idea of autonomy and bi-zonality as an effective mechanism of conflict resolution and protection of minority rights.
About the Author
Contributors
Luciano Baracco: Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
David C. Brooks: Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy, Luanda, Angola
Jane Freeland: Research Fellow, Centre for Transnational Studies, University of Southampton, UK
Mary Finley-Brook: Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Richmond, US
Wolfgang Gabbert: Professor of Development Sociology and Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Sociology, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany.
Miguel González: Assistant Professor of International Development Studies, York University, Canada
Ken Henriksen: Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Language, Literature and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Laura Hobson Herlihy: Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, US.
Mark Jamieson: Lecturer in Anthropology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London, UK
Christopher Kindbald: Associate Professor, School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Halmstad, Sweden
Baron Pineda: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Oberlin College, US
Michael J. Schroeder: Assistant Professor of History, Department of History and Political Science, Lebanon Valley College, US
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About the Book
The post-Cold War era has witnessed a resurgence of conflictive ethnic and secessionist politics that has placed the taken-for-granted primacy of unitary, sovereign nation-states into question. Along with cases such as Cyprus, Northern Ireland,...
The post-Cold War era has witnessed a resurgence of conflictive ethnic and secessionist politics that has placed the taken-for-granted primacy of unitary, sovereign nation-states into question. Along with cases such as Cyprus, Northern Ireland, and the Basque regions of Spain, Nicaragua has sought to resolve prolonged and protracted ethnic conflict, issues of minority rights to self-determination, and questions concerning the sovereignty of national states, through an autonomy process that extended beyond a narrow political settlement to include the exercise of cultural rights and control of local resources.
Autonomy on Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast remains highly contested, being simultaneously characterized by progress, setbacks and violent confrontation within a number of fields and involving a multiplicity of actors; local, national and global. This experience offers critical lessons for efforts around the world that seek to resolve long-established and deep-seated ethnic conflict by attempting to reconcile the need for development, usually fostered by national governments, with the protection of minority rights advocated by marginalized minorities living within nation states.
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Latin American Studies, Volume 44 - 2012, Cambridge University Press | More »
Latin American Studies, Volume 44 - 2012, Cambridge University Press
We should celebrate the appearance of this book for two reasons: first, the long-term historical vision that it offers of Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast, and, second, the quality of the authors who have been chosen for the sake of multidisciplinarity. There is also a third reason: the need to include the Atlantic Coast in the analysis of Nicaragua. It is incredible that the historiography and political analysis of Nicaragua have tended to ignore the Atlantic Coast, despite the fact that it makes up 56 per cent of the country’s territory and 13 per cent of its total population, and constitutes the republic’s main reserve of forest and water resources. …To a large extent this lack of understanding [between the Atlantic multi-ethnic space and the Pacific Coast or “Spaniards”] is one of the elements that run through the work reviewed here. …This book by Luciano Baracco is highly relevant, its virtue lying in considering the reality of the Atlantic Coast from three perspectives, [historical, political and everyday, micro issues that are nevertheless highly relevant for citizens living on the Atlantic Coast... …With a thorough reading of Baracco’s edited volume, one may conclude that studies on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast are still interesting and of high quality…. It would be a good sign if this work were the start of increasing interest in the Central American Caribbean, since it is an area in which multiple conflicts have broken out in recent decades. It is a very sensitive region because of phenomena such as ethnic tensions, interest in natural resources on the part of transnational companies, incapacity on the part of state institutions to maintain the monopoly of force, and the emergence of mafias linked to drug trafficking. This is what this book highlights. Salvador Marti I Puig, Universidad de Salamanca
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Pages 352
Year: 2011
LC Classification: F1529.M9N36 2011
Dewey code: 972.85--dc22
BISAC: HIS007000 HISTORY / Latin America / Central America
BISAC: POL045000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
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