Everyday moral economies : food, politics and scale in Cuba
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Everyday moral economies : food, politics and scale in Cuba
(RGS-IBG book series)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for 'appropriate' acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life.
Discusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal of food as an entitlement and the market value of food as a commodity
Bridges the fields of human geography and anthropology
Approaches food networks and the scale of food systems in a novel way
Provides a comprehensive look at Cuba today, with coverage of history, politics, economics, and social and environmental justice
Enhanced by vivid photos from the field
Table of Contents
Series Editors' Preface ix Preface xi
Acknowledgements xxiii
List of Acronyms xxv
1 Introduction 1
2 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan 33
3 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption 73
4 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions and Reciprocities in the World of Tutano Consumption 99
5 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges that Connect State, Market and Civil Society 121
6 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the Small Farming Sector 153
7 Conclusion 181
Appendices 199
Index 211
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