Everyday moral economies : food, politics and scale in Cuba
Marisa Wilson
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2014 ; Online-Ausg.
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| Authors: | Wilson, Marisa L. |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Subject: | Kuba | Cuba | Ernährungssicherung | Food security | Agrarpolitik | Agricultural policy | Ernährungspolitik | Nutrition policy |
| Description of contents: | Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource (260 pages)) illustrations. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record Everyday Moral Economies: Food, Politics and Scale in Cuba; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Crossovers in anthropology and geography I; Caveats and limitations; Notes; References; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; 1 Introduction; Political economies: re-connecting 'is' and 'ought'; Shifting scales of responsibility; Crossovers in anthropology and geography II; The economy-culture relation; Positioning the ethnographer I: habitual and representational knowledge; Positioning the ethnographer II: food and the 'politics of negotiation'; The provisioning perspective Outline of the chaptersNotes; References; 2 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan; The first revolution 'of the humble, for the humble and by the humble'; José Martí and contradictions of Cuba's creation myth; Town and country in the early republic: pre-revolutionary values of commodities and culture, work and reciprocity; Agrarianism, Guevara and the Great Debate; Pendulum shifts and moral continuities; Notes; References; 3 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption; The ideal of national re-distribution and the reality of uneven access Gaps in the national oikosCollective needs versus individual desires; Local narratives of consumption and the Fight; Being a luchador; Scarcity and C uban irony; Negotiating individual desires with national norms: 'want' versus 'like'; Notes; References; 4 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions and Reciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption; Reciprocity and re-distribution: a comparative view; Merit and nourishment; 'Hunger' in post-1990s T uta: means testing for food and energy; Hunger and need; Continuities and change in the social contract; Notes; References 5 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges that Connect State, Market and Civil SocietyInstitutions and ideologies of the national moral economy; Democratic centralism and scalar hierarchies; Traversing public and private in everyday life; Levels of culture model and the nation as a family; Shifting scales of appropriate exchange; Spaces and exchanges in between state and civil society: the case of jefes; Normative distinctions between emerging entrepreneurs in Tuta; Insiders and outsiders in the market sphere: particulares and familiares Jineteros: the dangerous realm of the 'interested'Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the Small Farming Sector; Food and other 'sovereignties' in Cuba; Positioning small farmers in Cuba: the agroecology movement in historical context; Controlling the mercenary, designating the worthy: small farming and national institutions; Regulating small-scale production: the Acopio, Fruta Selecta and Granja Urbana; Separating the worthy from the unworthy: a case study of Eduardo; Shifting borders of Cuban agroecology; Notes; References; 7 Conclusion Alternative economic geographies and systems of provisioning: contributions and possibilities |
| ISBN: | 978-1-118-30201-9 ; 1-118-30192-7 ; 978-1-118-30200-2 ; 978-1-118-30192-0 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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