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Highly original . . . Ch�vez carefully dissects official speeches and constitutional texts and expertly elucidates their literary and discursive origins. --Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs -Beyond Central Americanists, this book is relevant for scholars across the humanities and social sciences concerned with the study of 'practices of meaning-making' in any context. This book is part of the general shift across disciplines and its unique contribution is to show how definitions of 'utopia' lie at the center of such meaning-making practices in Nicaragua, especially with regard to notions of development. In particular, the author shows how there are both conservative and left-liberal, even liberatory, utopias at play.- --David Pedersen, author of American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States -The most important book on Nicaragua published in the United States in recent years.- --Nicasio Urbina, Confidencial -Highly original . . . Chavez carefully dissects official speeches and constitutional texts and expertly elucidates their literary and discursive origins.- --Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs Highly original . . . Chavez carefully dissects official speeches and constitutional texts and expertly elucidates their literary and discursive origins. --Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs Beyond Central Americanists, this book is relevant for scholars across the humanities and social sciences concerned with the study of 'practices of meaning-making' in any context. This book is part of the general shift across disciplines and its unique contribution is to show how definitions of 'utopia' lie at the center of such meaning-making practices in Nicaragua, especially with regard to notions of development. In particular, the author shows how there are both conservative and left-liberal, even liberatory, utopias at play. --David Pedersen, author of American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States The most important book on Nicaragua published in the United States in recent years. --Nicasio Urbina, Confidencial

Beyond Central Americanists, this book is relevant for scholars across the humanities and social sciences concerned with the study of 'practices of meaning-making' in any context. This book is part of the general shift across disciplines and its unique contribution is to show how definitions of 'utopia' lie at the center of such meaning-making practices in Nicaragua, especially with regard to notions of development. In particular, the author shows how there are both conservative and left-liberal, even liberatory, utopias at play. --<b>David Pedersen</b>, author of <i>American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States</i>

Beyond Central Americanists, this book is relevant for scholars across the humanities and social sciences concerned with the study of 'practices of meaning-making' in any context. This book is part of the general shift across disciplines and its unique contribution is to show how definitions of 'utopia' lie at the center of such meaning-making practices in Nicaragua, especially with regard to notions of development. In particular, the author shows how there are both conservative and left-liberal, even liberatory, utopias at play. --David Pedersen, author of American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States

Highly original . . . Ch�vez carefully dissects official speeches and constitutional texts and expertly elucidates their literary and discursive origins. --Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs Beyond Central Americanists, this book is relevant for scholars across the humanities and social sciences concerned with the study of 'practices of meaning-making' in any context. This book is part of the general shift across disciplines and its unique contribution is to show how definitions of 'utopia' lie at the center of such meaning-making practices in Nicaragua, especially with regard to notions of development. In particular, the author shows how there are both conservative and left-liberal, even liberatory, utopias at play. --David Pedersen, author of American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States The most important book on Nicaragua published in the United States in recent years. --Nicasio Urbina, Confidencial

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Daniel Chavez is Assistant Professor of Spanish and American Studies at the University of Virginia, USA.

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