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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806853003321

Titolo

Central America in the new millennium [[electronic resource] ] : living transition and reimagining democracy / / edited by Jennifer L. Burrell and Ellen Moodie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

1-283-86646-3

0-85745-753-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

CEDLA Latin America studies (CLAS) ; ; v. 102

Classificazione

MI 71086

Altri autori (Persone)

BurrellJennifer L

MoodieEllen

Disciplina

320.9728

972.000905

Soggetti

Democratization - Central America

Democracy - Central America

Central America Politics and government 21st century

Central America Economic policy

Central America Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ethnographic Visions of Millennial Central America; Part I - Imagining Democracy after the Cold War; Chapter 1 - Contradiction and Struggle under the Leftist Phoenix: Rural Nicaragua at the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Revolution; Chapter 2 - The Violence of Cold War Polarities and the Fostering of Hope: The 2009 Elections in Postwar El Salvador; Chapter 3 - Daring to Hope in the Midst of Despair: The Agrarian Question within the Anti-Coup Resistance Movement in Honduras

Chapter 4 - ""My Heart Says NO"": Political Experiences of the Struggle against CAFTA-DR in Costa RicaChapter 5 - Democracy, Disenchantment, and the Future in El Salvador; Part III - Indigeneity, Race and Human Rights in the (Post) Multicultural Moment; Chapter 6 - Cuando Nos Internacionalizamos: Human Rights and Other Universals at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Chapter 7 - Acknowledging Racism and State Transformation in Postwar



Guatemalan Society; Chapter 8 - Ephemeral Rights and Securitized Lives: Migration, Mareros, and Power in Millennial Guatemala

Part III - Dominant, Residual, and Emergent Economic StrategiesChapter 9 - Honduras's Smallholder Coffee Farmers, the Coffee Crisis, and Neoliberal Policy: Disjunctures in Knowledge and Conundrums for Development; Chapter 10 - Maya Handicraft Vendors' CAFTA-DR Discourses: ""Free Trade Is Not for Everyone in Guatemala""; Chapter 11 - ""Here the Campesino Is Dead"": Can Central America's Smallholders Be Saved?; Chapter 12 - Certifying Sustainable Tourism in Costa Rica: Environmental Governance and Accountability in a Transitional Era

Chapter 13 - Central America Comes to the ""Cradle of Democracy"": Immigration and Neoliberalization in Williamsburg, VirginiaPart IV - A Place on the Map: Surviving on Pasts, Presents, and Futures; Chapter 14 - Migration, Tourism, and Post-Insurgent Individuality in Northern Morazán, El Salvador; Chapter 15 - Intimate Encounters: Sex and Power in Nicaraguan Tourism; Chapter 16 - Notes on Tourism, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Cultural Value in Honduras; References; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Most non-Central Americans think of the narrow neck between Mexico and Colombia in terms of dramatic past revolutions and lauded peace agreements, or sensational problems of gang violence and natural disasters. In this volume, the contributors examine regional circumstances within frames of democratization and neoliberalism, as they shape lived experiences of transition. The authors-anthropologists and social scientists from the United States, Europe, and Central America-argue that the process of regions and nations ""disappearing"" (being erased from geopolitical notice) is integral to uphold