Hybrid Cultures of Postdevelopment: The Struggle for Popular Hegemony in Rural Nicaragua

Cupples, Julie; Glynn, Kevin; Larios, Irving

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2007.00583.x

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“…Some of these discussions of responsibility have centred around addressing inequality, in particularly the responsibilities of richer countries and people towards those who are less wealthy or distanciated, often evoked through the figure of the ‗distant stranger' (Patai, 1991;Corbridge, 1993Corbridge, , 1998Smith, 2002). Other studies have revealed the distinctive temporal dimensions of these relationships, both the importance of the past in shaping the present (Andreasson, 2005;Biccum, 2005;Cupples et al, 2007;Kapoor, 2004;Sharpe and Briggs, 2006) and also the need to think about responsibility to those who will come in the future, especially in relation to the environment (Armstrong, 2006;Baldwin, 2004;Hillman, 2004;Hobson, 2006;Richardson, 2004) 3 . In this wide ranging literature on geographies of responsibility, 11 we identify two key themes, which resonate with the care literature: responsibility as ethical place-making; and relationships and (re)arrangements between places.…”

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“…Through their ability to emphasise relationality and interdependence, these concepts of care and responsibility challenge wider moves within public policy towards an autonomous, responsibilised self (Clarke, 2005). Thus a range of writers have contested such individualised versions of care and responsibility by highlighting the inherently relational interdependence that marks the globalising world (Bosco, 2007;Cupples et al, 2007;Jazeel, 2007). In so doing, notions of responsibility and care are mapped onto a framework for ethical living.…”

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“…It is this unsettling that we have explored in our article. As such, our paper contributes towards moves being made elsewhere (see, for example, Cupples et al, 2007) to destabilize and disrupt the linear temporalities and spatial fixities of much development/geographical thought and practice.…”

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Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world

2009

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Abstract:Both responsibility and care have much to offer in thinking through the relationalities that make up a postcolonial world. Although contemporary political systems often posit responsibility and care within the context of individuated and autonomous selves, geographers have done much to relocate responsibility and care within narratives of interdependency -spatially and temporally. They have argued that both terms offer a route for thinking about ethical geographical relations between myriad places. In this article we take this project further, by looking at how the nature and shape of these relationships might be construed in a postcolonial world. We suggest that, through a more critical engagement with postcolonial thinking, any exploration of existing practices of responsibility and care will not only reveal the enormous potential of imagining these geographies as forms of existing and evolving relationalities, but will also lead us to interrogate the deployments of these terms in the context of past and present inequalities. We show that routing care and responsibility through postcolonial geographies moves us towards a more pragmatic responsiveness, one that involves a ‗care-full' recognition of postcolonial interaction.

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Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world

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“…And although many Nicaraguans benefited from land reform under the Sandinistas, beneficiaries often did not receive formal titles to their land (Cupples, Glynn, and Larios 2007). In Northern Leon, where Achuapa is located, only around 38 percent of farmers hold title to their land (cited in Cupples, Glynn, and Larios 2007). Small producers have seen their lands further diminished as land has been subdivided by subsequent generations, and in many cases family plots are no longer large enough to sustain household members (Baumeister, Fernández, and Acuña 2008).…”

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“…The region suffers from degraded soils, affecting agricultural production (Larson 2002). And although many Nicaraguans benefited from land reform under the Sandinistas, beneficiaries often did not receive formal titles to their land (Cupples, Glynn, and Larios 2007). In Northern Leon, where Achuapa is located, only around 38 percent of farmers hold title to their land (cited in Cupples, Glynn, and Larios 2007).…”

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Love for the Land: Remittances and Care in a Nicaraguan Transnational Community

Fouratt

2017

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Despite renewed interest in Central American migration, little attention has been devoted to understanding the diversity of migration pathways within the region. This article explores the tensions in the complicated connections between migration, land, consumption, and love in the case of migration between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Based on interviews and ethnographic observations with members of transnational families in Achuapa, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, I examine how migrants and nonmigrants talk about remittances to make arguments about both abandonment and connection-that is, love for the land and people. Houses and land mediate local understandings of both the absence and presence of migrants in Achuapa. However, those who send and receive remittances, women and men, and young people and old all understand the relationships between migration and care or abandonment differently. At the community level, discourses around remittances tie in to nation-building projects through the resurgence of revolutionary discourses of solidarity under the Sandinistas. In this context, migration has become a new way for poor Nicaraguans to participate in the global economy and care for loved ones, even as it threatens nationalist longings for solidarity.A pesar de una renovación de interés en la migración centroamericana, se ha dedicado poca atención a la diversidad de flujos migratorios dentro de la región. Este artículo examina las tensiones entre la migración, la tierra, el consumo y el amor en el caso de la migración entre Nicaragua y Costa Rica. Basado en entrevistas y observaciones etnográficas en Achuapa, Nicaragua y Costa Rica, se examina como los y las migrantes y personas no-migrantes hablan sobre las remesas en discusiones sobre el abandono y la conexión-es decir, el amor por la tierra y las personas. Las casas y la tierra median el entendimiento de la ausencia y presencia de los y las migrantes en Achuapa. Sin embargo, los que envían y los que reciben remesas, las mujeres y los hombres, las personas jóvenes y las viejas entienden la relación entre la migración, el amor y el abandono de manera diferente. Al nivel de la comunidad, los discursos sobre las remesas se vinculan con proyectos sandinistas y nacionalistas a través del idioma de la solidaridad. En este contexto, la migración se ha vuelto al mismo tiempo una nueva manera para que los nicaragüenses pobres participen en la economía global y cuiden a sus seres queridos, y una amenaza a los deseos nacionalistas de solidaridad.

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The People Need to Make the Trains Run on Time for Empowerment to Happen: Managerialism and Revolution in Nicaragua

Stookey

2012

J of Intl Development

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This article extends Gulrajani's proposal (2007) for a non‐managerialist alternative to the dichotomy posited by the radical and reformist critiques of development management. Drawing on extensive personal participation in development work during and after the Sandinista period, the author proposes that in Nicaragua a practice of development management emerged that defies the radical–reformist dichotomy. Unlike the alternative that Gulrajani proposed, it is argued that this practice had managerialist characteristics but that this reinforced rather than undermined progressive social change. The occurrence of this managerialism of the revolution, grounded in the Sandinista ethos of popular power and shaped by local history, conditions, and the extreme demands of national defence, suggests that development ends and managerialism are not necessarily antithetical. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Hybrid Cultures of Postdevelopment: The Struggle for Popular Hegemony in Rural Nicaragua

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world

Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world

Love for the Land: Remittances and Care in a Nicaraguan Transnational Community

The People Need to Make the Trains Run on Time for Empowerment to Happen: Managerialism and Revolution in Nicaragua

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