Higher Education, State Repression, and Neoliberal Reform in Nicaragua (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections from a University under Fire
Redaktion: Bellanger, Wendi; Silber, Irina Carlota; Cosgrove, Serena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000628685
• Artikelnr.: 64717584

Autorenporträt

Wendi Bellanger is Provost and Academic Leader of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Nicaragua. Serena Cosgrove is Faculty Coordinator of Seattle University's Central America Initiative and Associate Professor in International Studies at Seattle University, USA. Irina Carlota Silber is Professor of Anthropology at the City College of New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Florence E. Babb
Introduction
Part 1: The Repressive and Neoliberal Context of Critical Higher Education
in Nicaragua
1. The Manifesto of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA)
2. The Impact of Neoliberal Reform and Repression on Higher Education in
Nicaragua
Part 2: Professors and Students under Fire
3. Professors and the Accompaniment of University Student Struggles in
Nicaragua
4. An Ethnography of the Classroom and the Daily Effects of Repression
5. Rhizomatic Solidarity for (Re)flourishing: UCA Graduate Perspectives on
Education, Social Change, and Persistence amid Repression
Part 3: Solidarity and Implications beyond Nicaragua
6. Cyborg solidarity with Nicaragua and Digital/Analogue Entanglements
7. University Partnerships and Solidarity with Nicaragua
8. Lessons from Nicaragua for a Critical Higher Education
Coda
9. A Brief History of Violence in Nicaragua