TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baracco,Luciano
AU  - Azeez,Govand Khalid
AU  - Barbeyto,Arelly
AU  - Figueroa Romero,Dolores
AU  - Freeland,Jane
AU  - Gaitán-Barrera,Alejandra
AU  - González,Miguel
AU  - Grinevald,Colette
AU  - Jamieson,Mark
AU  - Mayer,Joshua L.
TI  - Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
SN  - 9781498558822
U1  - 972.853 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Indians of Central America-Nicaragua-Atlantic Coast-Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy -- Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 -- Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy -- The Evolution of Indigenous Autonomy -- The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- From the Kingdom of Mosquitia to the Mosquito Reservation -- Historical Background -- From "Big Men" to Kingship: An Ethnohistory of the Miskitu People -- The Mosquito Reservation and the Reincorporación -- The Rebellion of Sam Pitts -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- The Company Times -- The Golden Era of the Company Times -- Neocolonial Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Nicaragua -- Miskitu Participation in Neocolonial Economy -- Interethnic Relations under the Neocolonial System -- Final Notes of Historiography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- The Sandinista Revolution and the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua -- The Sandinista Front for National Liberation: Race, Class, and Anti-Imperialism -- Revolution in Bluefields: The Rise and Fall of the Black Sandinistas -- From Acquiescence to Ethnic Insurgency: Miskitu Responses to the Sandinista Revolution -- Modernization, Ethnic Identity, and the "Rebirth" of Autonomy -- From Ethnic Rights to Anti-communism and Back Again: Peace Negotiations and the Movement towards Autonomy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- Leasing Communal Lands . . . In "Perpetuity" -- The Rights to Autonomy -- Saneamiento: Title Clearance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Territories -- The Proposed Interoceanic Canal and the Rama-Kriol People -- The Bluefields Creoles' Quest for Ownership of Communal Land: Limited Restitution of Territorial Rights -- Undermining of Legitimate Indigenous and Afro-descendant Authorities -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- Negotiating Consultation; Autonomy in the Rama-Kriol Territory -- Negotiating a Framework for Consultation -- Consulting on the Canal: "We Cannot Have Excessive Democracy" -- Rebuilding in the Aftermath of the Consultation Process -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 -- Autonomy in the Caribbean Coast -- The Frontera Agrícola -- The Framework of Autonomy: 1987-2017 -- Colono Mass Migration and Conflict in La Mosquitia -- Colono Migration: A Horizontal and Vertical Structural Analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 -- Strong Women -- Antecedents of War and Its Human Cost -- Testimonies of Miskitu Women from Their Experience of War -- The Sociopolitical Role of Indigenous Women in Achieving Peace -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- Cocaine Money, Cement Houses, and New Residential Arrangements in a Coastal Miskitu Village -- Matrilocality among the Miskitu -- Discussion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 -- The Role of Autonomy in the Revitalization of the Languages of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast -- The Caribbean Coast-the Sociolinguistic Context -- Case Studies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors
N2  - This book addresses indigenous peoples' claims to autonomy and self-determination with a focus on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. It demonstrates the tensions between nation states and indigenous peoples seeking to realize these rights and offers important lessons for similar projects across Latin America
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