Cuba
Subtitle: the struggle for consumption
By: Anna Cristina Pertierra
Publisher: Caribbean Studies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Coconut Creek, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781584327530
Subjects: Economic conditions; Consumption (Economics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : studying scarcity in post-Soviet Cuba; title: Life in the Tivolí : a neighborhood in Santiago de Cuba; title: Struggle and other key concepts in Cuban consumption; title: Battling for groceries : shopping, stocking, and household management; title: Interior revolutions : renovations, furnishings, and domestic appliances; title: "If they show 'Prison Break' in the United States on a Wednesday, by Thursday it is here" : television and new media in twenty-first century Cuba; title: Conclusion : a politics of Cuban consumption.