Politisk Mobilisering och Kollektiva och Sociala Identitetskonstruktioner -en studie om dess interaktion med Nicaraguas Atlantregion som empiriskt exempel
IdentityKeywords:Political mobilizationEmpowermentSocial and collective actionAtlantic Coast of NicaraguaSocial sciencesSamhällsvetenskaperPolitical and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapSocial SciencesLaw and Political Science
This thesis is concerned with political mobilization and the construction of a collective andsocial identity. The main purpose of the study is theoretical which emphasize their interaction.In order to do this I study the two phenomenons by seeing them as cases of each other. Wecannot understand one of the two phenomenons without taking into account the other as well.In addition, the secondary aim of my thesis is empirical. I use the political transformationduring the 70th and 80th on the eastern seaboard of Nicaragua to relate my theoretical analysisof political mobilization and the construction of identities. Nicaragua will provide mytheoretical analysis with new insights. The most evident is the actor-oriented approach whichoften is forgotten in theoretical context. The result supplied by my work is that there exist astrong relationship between political mobilization and collective and social constructions ofidentities and that this is very evident in the case of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. Theconstruction of a common identity of the coast is probably the most significant. Even ifdifferent minorities have less in common they will approach each other because they have thesame enemy and the same goal, in the case of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, the Sandinistagovernment and autonomy.