Matria libre y vivir

Youth Activism and Nicaragua's 2018 Insurrection

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2285180
AutoresFiore Stella Bran Aragón, Jennifer Goett (Michigan State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen25
Número4
Páginas532-551
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jlca.12531
OpenAlexW3133485892
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias 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