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2 results foundAuthor: Rodgers, Dennis Title: Urban Segregation from Below: Drugs, Consumption, and Primitive Accumulation in Managua, Nicaragua Summary: This paper explores the emergence of new forms of urban segregation in contemporary Managua, Nicaragua. Although the country has historically always been characterised by high levels of socio-economic inequality - with the notable exception of the Sandinista revolutionary period (1979-1990), when disparities declined markedly - the past decade in particular has seen the development of new processes of exclusion and differentiation, especially in urban areas. In many ways, these are part of a broader regional trend; as several recent studies have noted, many other Latin American cities are undergoing similar mutations. The seminal investigation in this regard is undoubtedly Teresa Caldeira's City of Walls, which traces the way in which rising crime and insecurity have changed the cityscape of Sao Paolo, Brazil, transforming it from a space of open circulation to a fragmented archipelago of isolated "fortified enclaves". This new urban morphology is most visible in the proliferation of self-sufficient gated communities and closed condominiums for the affluent, which have significantly altered the character of urban space, as those on the 'inside' of the enclaves no longer relate to notions of spatial cohabitation with those on the 'outside', but rather to an ideal of separation from them. This paper examines urban Nicaragua where this phenomenon has arguably gone further than enclaves and has led to the emergence of a 'fortified network' for the elites which excludes the poor and has profoundly altered the cityscape. Details: London: Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2005. 14p. Source: Internet Resource: Crisis States Research Centre Working Papers series 1, No. 71.: Accessed February 1, 2011 at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/13283/1/wp71.pdf Year: 2005 Country: Nicaragua URL: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/13283/1/wp71.pdf Shelf Number: 120638 Keywords: Crime (Nicaragua)Socioeconomic StatusUrban Areas |
Author: Johnson, Stephen Title: Nicaragua: Lessons from a Country with a Low Crime Rate Summary: Unlike its immediate neighbors to the north in Central America, Nicaragua has made admirable strides in the area of citizen security in the last 30 years. While Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras all had been galloping toward greater citizen insecurity since the conflictive 1980s, Nicaragua has managed to keep a lid on crime. With a homicide rate of 12 deaths per 100,000 residents—half the Latin American average of 26 per 100,000 and far lower than 82 per 100,000 in Honduras—Nicaragua appears to be a model for public safety in still turbulent Central America. However, recent erosions in democratic governance in Nicaragua could easily reverse such gains. Details: Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2012. 3p. Source: Internet Resource: Hemisphere Focus: Accessed July 9, 2013 at: http://csis.org/files/publication/120710_Johnson_Nicaragua_HemFocus.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Nicaragua URL: http://csis.org/files/publication/120710_Johnson_Nicaragua_HemFocus.pdf Shelf Number: 129340 Keywords: Crime (Nicaragua)Crime RatesPolicing |