Everyday Moral Economies

Food, Politics and Scale in Cuba

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Av Marisa Wilson, Trinidad and Tobago) Wilson, Marisa (University of the West Indies

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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 commodityBridges the fields of human geography and anthropologyApproaches food networks and the scale of food systems in a novel wayProvides a comprehensive look at Cuba today, with coverage of history, politics, economics, and social and environmental justiceEnhanced by vivid photos from the field

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Utgivningsdatum2013-10-18
Mått154 x 230 x 14 mm
Vikt336 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRGS-IBG Book Series
Antal sidor258
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781118301920

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Marisa Wilson is a social anthropologist and Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Her present research involves political and moral economies of food and (un)sustainable consumption, especially in relation to uneven processes of globalization and neoliberalization in the Caribbean. She has published in both geography and anthropology journals, including Food, Culture and Society, the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, the International Journal of Cuban Studies, and the Journal of Rural and Community Development.

Series Editors’ Preface ix Preface xiAcknowledgements xxiiiList of Acronyms xxv1 Introduction 12 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan 333 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption 734 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions and Reciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption 995 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges that Connect State, Market and Civil Society 1216 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the Small Farming Sector 1537 Conclusion 181Appendices 199Index 211

“The book will be of interest to geographers engaged in debates on diverse economies, as well as those pursuing work on food security, food sovereignty, and/or the politics of food.” (The Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe Canadien, 25 October 2015)“If I had to evaluate Everyday moral economies in just two words, these would most probably be ‘useful’ and ‘balanced’. Useful because to my knowledge it is the most comprehensive treatment on the theme of food consumption and production in Cuba, providing valuable information on the theme from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Balanced because, although it deals with an utterly political side of Cuba and the Revolution, it does not hastily take sides between a (neo)liberal or a socialist mode of production and political organization.” (Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23.3, 4 August 2017)