Everyday moral economies
Subtitle: food, politics and scale in Cuba
By: Marisa Wilson, Chancellor's Fellow at the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Series: RGS-IBG book series
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781118302002; 9781118301920
Subjects: Food supply; Consumption (Economics); Exchange; Value; Economic conditions; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
Description: "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   "--

"This book examines how ordinary people in Cuba carve out their own spaces for 2018appropriate' acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life"--
Notes: Includes index.