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The Historical Roots of Autonomy in Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast: From British Colonialism to Indigenous Autonomy
Author(s) -
BARACCO LUCIANO
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12329
Subject(s) - indigenous , autonomy , dictatorship , colonialism , nationalism , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , population , political science , political economy , development economics , economic history , sociology , history , democracy , law , economics , demography , ecology , politics , biology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
This article reviews historical forms of localised government on N icaragua's C aribbean coast and contrasts them with the contemporary struggle to attain a communal form of autonomy undertaken by the region's indigenous population. It suggests that the contemporary autonomy process shares few features with the historical precedents of localised government which are commonly invoked to legitimise it. Instead, its roots can be located in the emergence of a M oskitian nationalism amongst the M iskitu which occurred to counter the assimilating impulse of an increasingly developmentally determined national state during the 1960s under the S omoza dictatorship, and then more thoroughly during the S andinista revolution.