书目名称 | Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes |
副标题 | Authoritarianism and |
编辑 | Julie Cupples,Kevin Glynn |
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概述 | Is the first book to deal specifically with media convergence in Nicaragua.Presents interesting, well-theorized case studies of the current conjuncture: indigenous struggles and interoceanic canal.Int |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies |
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描述 | .This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua. To do so, it draws on in-depth fieldwork, analysis of media texts, and decolonial and other cultural theories. There are two main threats to the authoritarian rule of the Nicaraguan government led by Daniel Ortega: the first is the Managua-based NGO and civil society sector led largely by educated dissident Sandinistas, and the second is the escalating struggle for autonomy and land rights being fought by Nicaragua’s indigenous and Afro-descended inhabitants on the country’s Caribbean coast. In order to confront these threats and, it seems, secure indefinite political tenure, the government engages in a set of centralizing and anti-democratic political strategies characterized by secrecy, institutional power grabs, highly suspect electoral practices, clientelistic anti-poverty programmes, and the control through purchase or co-optation of much of the nation‘s media. The social movements that threaten Ortega’s rule are however operating through dispersed and topological modalities of power and the creative use of em |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | media in Latin America; social justice in Nicaragua; Indigenous Rights; Authoritarianism; Agnotology; Col |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64319-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-64318-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-64319-9Series ISSN 2366-763X Series E-ISSN 2366-7648 |
issn_series | 2366-763X |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |