The way people produce, exchange and consume food in Cuba is underwritten by cultural
and political economic rules as well as economic self-interest. These “rules” are not just …

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 …

The opening of the Cuban economy to tourism and to the United States dollar has had a
profound impact on the spaces and subjects of food production, exchange and consumption …

The broad argument of this article is that national values embedded in what I call the Cuban
national moral economy affect local valorisations of provisioning in Cuba and that such …

The concept of moral economy can be applied to all types of economies as they all involve
conceptions of the 'common good'that determine who gets what, why and how, and who is …

Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in
Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional …

In 1990, economic crisis struck Cuba. The Soviet Union and the East European countries,
which were Cuba's main trading partners, were shifting to a market economy and stopped …

Satisfying the basic material and cultural needs of their citizens remains an unfulfilled
promise for the majority of the world's states. Cuba's 1976 Constitution (amended 1992) …

Drawing principally on eight months of anthropological fieldwork in Havana, Cuba in 2006,
this dissertation explores how morality is articulated in everyday economic life among …

Starting in 1965, Cuban economic policy displayed two basic characteristics: 1) the pursuit
of the sugar plan to culminate in the production of 10 million tons in 1970, and 2) the …