Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy

The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua

Luciano Baracco

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798881884086
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast and the process of autonomy that was initiated in 1987 as part of a wider conflict resolution process during the years of the Sandinista revolution and has continued through to the present day. Over its 30 year period of development, the autonomy process on Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast can be seen as a crucible for the autonomous struggles of minority peoples throughout the Latin American continent. 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 local, national, and global actors. 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 through neo-extractivist policies, with the protection of minority rights advocated by marginalized minorities living within nation states and, increasingly, by intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations and the Organization of American States. This book presents analyses that reveal the broad implications for the struggle for autonomy on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, conducted by scholars with expertise in an array of disciplines including sociology, globalization theory, anthropology, history, socio-linguistics, cultural and postcolonial studies, gender studies, and political science.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy
• Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Chapter 1
• Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy
• Chapter 2
• From the Kingdom of Mosquitia to the Mosquito Reservation
• Chapter 3
• The Company Times
• Chapter 4
• The Sandinista Revolution and the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
• Chapter 5
• Leasing Communal Lands . . . In “Perpetuity”
• Chapter 6
• Negotiating Consultation
• Chapter 7
• Autonomy in the Caribbean Coast
• Chapter 8
• Strong Women
• Chapter 9
• Cocaine Money, Cement Houses, and New Residential Arrangements in a Coastal Miskitu Village
• Chapter 10
• The Role of Autonomy in the Revitalization of the Languages of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast
• Index
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors