🎉Felicidades to this week’s Author Spotlight, Karisa Shiraki! Shiraki’s book review: To Defend This Sunrise by Courtney Desiree Morris focuses on the extensive ethnographical research that Morris performed on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, specifically in Bluefields, starting in 2004. She shares that her methodology is rooted in activist anthropology, a practice which promotes researcher engagement. In light of the April 2018 protests, she decided to change the direction of this book. These protests against social security reforms quickly became violent, marking the authoritarian turn of the Ortega administration. As this caught international attention, Morris shifted the focus of her book to how authoritarianism affected the Caribbean coast.The author further reveals how Morris writes directly to readers outside of Nicaragua so they can better understand the truth of the two autonomous regions along the Caribbean coast and their past and present place within the authoritarian turn.

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