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Violent Conflicts and Threatened Lives: Nicaraguan Experiences of Wartime Displacement and Postwar Distress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2003

ANJA NYGREN
ANJA NYGREN
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki and Visiting Scholar at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
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Abstract

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This article utilises an ethnographic case study from Nicaragua to analyse people's everyday experiences of wartime violence and postwar privation. A great deal of literature dealing with political instability in war-torn countries has approached this issue by examining the societal manifestations of violence, while relatively less attention has been paid to people's everyday experiences of conflict and pain. This study focuses on the several waves of violence, displacement, and distress Nicaraguan people have suffered in recent years, beginning with their traumatic experiences of the civil war in the 1980s to the current postwar era characterised by political instability and socio-economic insecurity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , May 2003 , pp. 367 - 393
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

Footnotes

This article draws on research financed by the Academy of Finland. I am grateful to the people of Río San Juan and to the many ministries, development institutions and NGOs in Nicaragua that co-operated with my field research. I am also grateful to Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) and the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri–Columbia for providing logistic support. Sandy Rikoon and the two anonymous reviewers of this journal provided highly relevant comments on a previous version of this article.