Higher Education, State Repression, and Neoliberal Reform in Nicaragua

Wendi Bellanger is Provost and Academic Leader of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Nicaragua. Serena Cosgrove is Faculty Coordinator of Seattle University’s Central America Initiative and Associate Professor in International Studies at Seattle University, USA. Irina Carlota Silber is Professor of Anthropology at the City College of New York, USA.

Foreword by Florence E. Babb

Introduction

Part 1: The Repressive and Neoliberal Context of Critical Higher Education in Nicaragua

1. The Manifesto of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA)

2. The Impact of Neoliberal Reform and Repression on Higher Education in Nicaragua

Part 2: Professors and Students under Fire

3. Professors and the Accompaniment of University Student Struggles in Nicaragua

4. An Ethnography of the Classroom and the Daily Effects of Repression

5. Rhizomatic Solidarity for (Re)flourishing: UCA Graduate Perspectives on Education, Social Change, and Persistence amid Repression

Part 3: Solidarity and Implications beyond Nicaragua

6. Cyborg solidarity with Nicaragua and Digital/Analogue Entanglements

7. University Partnerships and Solidarity with Nicaragua

8. Lessons from Nicaragua for a Critical Higher Education

Coda

9. A Brief History of Violence in Nicaragua