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3 , a small Miskitu commu- nity on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, this study seeks to address informal types of political initiatives to solve the ongoing land conflicts in the area. The emphasis will thus be on the self-regulatory practices community members engage in as they seek to reassert their sovereignty over local territory. The questions to be discussed include the following: What types of informal politics emerge in the community? In what ways are everyday forms of hostility, violence and conflict expressed in practices of self-regulation? What are the proc- esses of inclusion and exclusion produced as part of the self-regulatory practices? Does the absence of standard state institutions make room for alternative and non- emancipatory practices? What is the impact of these practices on the processes of democratic consolidation? And finally, are democratization, the retreat of the state, and increasing self-responsibility perhaps too naively conflated? Politics of identity, self-help and democratization in the neo-liberal era In recent decades there has been a growing scholarly interest in the role of civil society in the processes of democratization in Latin America. In this article I ad- vance a conception of civil society as an avenue of social change, but one which also seeks to go beyond notions of civil society as the home of the good and enlightened. Civil society groups do often engage in purposive collective actions that lead to progressive transformations of society. Yet processes of social change in Latin America, and elsewhere, often take the form of fanaticism and violence, which is usually not associated with democratic change (Castells 1997, Kay 2001). Based on Central American experiences, some scholars, for example, have argued that an authoritarian political culture has developed in civil society. Some of the

Ethnic self-regulation and democratic instability on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast: The case of Ratisuna