Matria libre y vivir

Youth Activism and Nicaragua's 2018 Insurrection

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2285180
AutoresFiore Stella Bran Aragón, Jennifer Goett (Michigan State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume25
Fascículo4
Páginas532-551
Data de publicação2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jlca.12531
OpenAlexW3133485892
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas18

This article examines how youth subjectivity shaped Nicaragua's 2018 civic insurrection. A generation born after the end of the Sandinista Revolution in 1990 led the uprising, with the support of a broad sector of society. Once cast as apolitical and self-involved, young protestors built insurgent spaces of democratic participation that challenged national political culture and the authoritarian social relations that it produces. Focusing on the university student movement, the authors examine how youth life and youth death at the hands of the state became powerful symbols of resistance. Some activists, particularly young women, even reimagined the nation as a space of self- and mutual care rooted in feminist, ecological, and decolonial consciousness. This ethic of life critiques the heroic martyrdom of the revolutionary past and the militarism, extractivism, and heteropatriarchy of the contemporary state

Authoritarianism · Consciousness · Democracy · Militarism · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · Subjectivity · Youth studies · Gender Studies · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America