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Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia: Development and Culture in the Modern State

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The history of brand new Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community should look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua has been the scene of cyclical attempts and screw ups at brand new development. Creator Daniel Chavez investigates the cultural and ideological bases of what he identifies as the three decisive movements of social reinvention in Nicaragua: the regimes of the Somoza circle of relatives of much of the early to mid-twentieth century; the governments of the Sandinista party; and the present-day struggle to adapt to the global market economy.

For each and every era, Chavez reveals the ways Nicaraguan popular culture adapted and interpreted the new political order, shaping, critiquing, or amplifying the regime’s message of stability and prosperity for the people. These tactics of interpretation, differently referred to as meaning-making, became all-essential for the Nicaraguan people, as they opposed the autocracy of Somocismo, or complemented the Sandinistas, or struggled to find their place in the Neoliberal era. In each and every case, Chavez shows the reflective nature of cultural production and its pursuit of utopian idealism.

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