Description
Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution (1979-1990) initiated a broad program of social transformation to enhance the situation of the working class and poor, women, and other non-elite groups through agrarian reform, restructured urban employment, and wide get entry to to health care, education, and social services and products. This book explores how Nicaragua’s least powerful citizens have fared within the years for the reason that Sandinista revolution, as neoliberal governments have rolled back these state-supported reforms and introduced measures to advertise the development of a market-driven economy.
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted all the way through the 1990s, Florence Babb describes the negative consequences that have followed the return to a capitalist path, especially for women and low-source of revenue citizens. As well as, she charts the growth of women’s and other social movements (neighborhood, lesbian and gay, indigenous, youth, peace, and environmental) that have taken benefit of new openings for political mobilization. Her ethnographic portraits of a low-source of revenue barrio and of women’s craft cooperatives powerfully link local, cultural responses to national and global processes.