(Un)Making the Insurrectional City
Illicit Infrastructures of Care and Repression in the 2018 Nicaraguan Protests
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5710929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ricardo Díaz, Ricardo Sobhie Diaz (0000-0002-8395-7304, Latin American Institute), Julienne Weegels (0000-0001-7988-9903, Latin American Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 337-350 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2516-7227 • E-ISSN: 2516-7227 |
| Publisher | LSE Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.31389/jied.171 |
| OpenAlex | W4312756740 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
In this paper, we explore the socio-material infrastructures that maintained and repressed the 2018 Nicaraguan protests, as they made and unmade the insurrectional city. We consider the insurrectional city to be an urban place that is socio-materially reconfigured by the act of revolt and ensuing conflict. In Nicaragua, the insurrectional city (re)emerged as an entangled moral material battleground where past and present practices and notions of insurrection, as well as diverging imaginations for the future collided. With the 2018 protests, new material and human flows settled onto the streets, disrupting extant ways of being in and moving through the city. These were directly deemed illicit by government authorities, who projected the protesters as vandals, thugs, and later even terrorists. A competing ethics of care emerged then, as protesters and (para-)state actors understood the protection and defense of their lives and respective political projects differently. Autoconvocados (self-convened protesters) organized socio-material networks to distribute vital goods for protesters occupying public space, at the same time that the government mobilized its hybrid repressive apparatus to quash and criminalize both the protesters and the care networks supporting their activities. To understand the city-making practices that the protests engendered – both during the months-long insurrection and in its aftermath – examining the interplay between care, repression and legitimacy is crucial
Criminology · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public space · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Engineering · Law
El sistema, la policía y la política vistos desde adentro. Un acercamiento al Estado carcelario nicaragüense de cara a la represión
Spatial meaning-making and urban activism
Cities of care
Nicaragua
Civil Resistance in the Shadow of the Revolution
State Formation and Social Memory in Sandinista Politics
Home Matters
Vandalism as Symbolic Reparation
Geographies of care
Relational agency
Introduction
Managing food insecurity through informal networks of care
Conceptualising 'materialities of care
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |