Description
Book SynopsisOffering 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
Trade Review“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)
Table of ContentsSeries 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 Tutaño 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
