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Everyday moral economies : food, politics and scale in Cuba / Marisa Wilson. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: RGS-IBG book seriesPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014Description: 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781118302019 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Everyday moral economies : food, politics and scale in Cuba.DDC classification:
  • 338.1/97291 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9014.C92 W55 2014
Online resources: Summary: "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 "-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 "-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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