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The final chapter assesses the current conjuncture as one in which both democracy and authoritarianism are under threat. It returns to questions surrounding the government’s attempts to produce public ignorance and illegibility, and examines grassroots media interventions that exploit gaps and absences that are themselves created by the Sandinista’s own strategic efforts. These popular interventions mobilize counter-discourses and counter-knowledges that rearticulate official modes of sensemaking and thus help to maintain the conditions of possibility for decoloniality and democratization.
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In one of their YouTube videos, CEJUDHCAN (2015a) interviews Costeño participants in front of a banner that reads, ‘We indigenous/Afro-descendant peoples live in harmony with nature’.
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Costeños still frequently refer to Pacific Nicaraguans as ‘Spaniards’.
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In the Honduran part of the Mosquitia, such legibility depends on Miskito and Garifuna communities clarifying overlapping claims and jointly managed spaces. Sharlene Mollett’s (2013) work on the fraught complexities of land titling there demonstrates that legibility is not in and of itself enough to guarantee rights (p. 1234). As in Nicaragua, the Honduran Miskito population is also struggling with the presence of colonos.
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Cupples, J., Glynn, K. (2018). Ignorance and Illegibility. In: Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes. SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64319-9_6
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