How Long to Read Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes

How Long Does it Take to Read Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 22 minutes to read Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes by Julie Cupples

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua. To do so, it draws on in-depth fieldwork, analysis of media texts, and decolonial and other cultural theories. There are two main threats to the authoritarian rule of the Nicaraguan government led by Daniel Ortega: the first is the Managua-based NGO and civil society sector led largely by educated dissident Sandinistas, and the second is the escalating struggle for autonomy and land rights being fought by Nicaragua’s indigenous and Afro-descended inhabitants on the country’s Caribbean coast. In order to confront these threats and, it seems, secure indefinite political tenure, the government engages in a set of centralizing and anti-democratic political strategies characterized by secrecy, institutional power grabs, highly suspect electoral practices, clientelistic anti-poverty programmes, and the control through purchase or co-optation of much of the nation's media. The social movements that threaten Ortega’s rule are however operating through dispersed and topological modalities of power and the creative use of emergent spaces for the circulation of counter-discourses and counter-narratives within a rapidly transforming media environment. The primary response to these mediated tactics is a politics of silence and a refusal to acknowledge or respond to the political claims made by social movements. In the current conjuncture, the authors identify a struggle for hegemony whose strategies and tactics include the citizenship-stripping activities of the state and the citizenship-claiming activities of black, indigenous and dissident actors and activists. This struggle plays out in part through the mediated circulation and counter-circulation of discourses and the infrastructural dynamics of media convergence.

How long is Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes?

Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes by Julie Cupples is 82 pages long, and a total of 20,664 words.

This makes it 28% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 52 minutes to read Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes aloud.

What Reading Level is Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes?

Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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