Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua: by Claudia Rueda, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2019, 291 pp., $45.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-14-7731-930-7.
Still, at key moments during the Somoza dictatorship, Nicaraguan students - women students, in particular - managed to hold unwieldy and at times contradictory coalitions together, channeling widespread reverence for students into organized support for political change across class lines. By virtue...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Iberian & Latin American Research Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 137 - 141 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2020
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| Sumario: | Still, at key moments during the Somoza dictatorship, Nicaraguan students - women students, in particular - managed to hold unwieldy and at times contradictory coalitions together, channeling widespread reverence for students into organized support for political change across class lines. By virtue of students' intermediate class positions, Nicaraguan student movements were always enmeshed in processes of political meaning-making that extended far beyond the bounds of the university. As a detailed and insightful analysis of student politics during the Somoza period, Rueda's book provides an invaluable resource for scholars attempting to puzzle through the sometimes slippery political character of student politics in Nicaragua. |
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