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Threatening Others
Carlos Sandoval García
其他書名
Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica
出版
Ohio University Press
, 2004
主題
History / General
History / Latin America / General
History / World
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Psychology / General
Social Science / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Social Science / Minority Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Discrimination
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN
0896802353
9780896802353
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0vqKHJElTlcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Winner of 2002 Costa Rican National Monograph Award
During the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.”
Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica
explores the representation of the Nicaraguan “other” in the Costa Rican imagery. It also seeks to address more generally why the sense of national belonging constitutes a crucial identification in contemporary societies. Interdisciplinary and based on extensive fieldwork, it looks critically at the “exceptionalism” that Costa Ricans take for granted and view as a part of their national identity.
Carlos Sandoval-García argues that Nicaraguan immigrants, once perceived as a “communist threat,” are now victims of an invigorated, racialized politics in which the Nicaraguan nationality has become an offense in itself.
Threatening Others
is a deeply searching book that will interest scholars and students in Latin American studies and politics, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.