Higher education, state repression, and neoliberal reform in Nicaragua : reflections from a university under fire / edited by Wendi Bellanger, Serena Cosgrove, and Irina Carlota Silber
The Manifesto of the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua -- The Impact of Neoliberal Reform and Repression on Higher Education in Nicaragua -- Professors and the Accompaniment of University Student Struggles in Nicaragua -- An Ethnography of the Classroom and the Daily Effects of Repression -- Rhizomatic Solidarity for (Re)flourishing: UCA Graduate Perspectives on Education, Social Change, and Persistence amid Repression -- Cyborg solidarity with Nicaragua and Digital/Analogue Entanglements -- University Partnerships and Solidarity with Nicaragua -- Lessons from Nicaragua for a Critical Higher Education -- A Brief History of Violence in Nicaragua
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. Using a critical ethnographic approach to frame the experiences of faculty and students through vignettes, chapters present contextualized, analytical contributions from students, scholars, and university leaders to draw attention to the activism present within teaching, research, and administration while simultaneously calling attention to critical higher education and international solidarity as crucial means of maintaining academic freedom, university autonomy, oppositional knowledge production, and social outreach in higher education globally. This text will benefit researchers, students, and academics in the fields of higher education, educational policy and politics, and international and comparative education. Those interested in equality and human rights, Central America, and the themes of revolution and protest more broadly will also benefit from this volume.-- Publisher's description
