Wilson Everyday Moral Economies

Food, Politics and Scale in Cuba
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-30201-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Marisa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Consumption73
4 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions andReciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption 99
5 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges thatConnect State, Market and Civil Society 121
6 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the SmallFarming Sector 153
7 Conclusion 181
Appendices 199
Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

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.