Beschreibung:
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
Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, thisbook examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for'appropriate' acts of consumption, exchange, andproduction within the contradictory normative and material spacesof everyday economic life.* Discusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal offood as an entitlement and the market value of food as acommodity* Bridges the fields of human geography and anthropology* Approaches food networks and the scale of food systems in anovel way* Provides a comprehensive look at Cuba today, with coverage ofhistory, politics, economics, and social and environmentaljustice* Enhanced by vivid photos from the field
Series Editors' Preface ixPreface xiAcknowledgements xxiiiList of Acronyms xxv1 Introduction 12 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan 333 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption734 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions andReciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption 995 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges thatConnect State, Market and Civil Society 1216 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the SmallFarming Sector 1537 Conclusion 181Appendices 199Index 211