Scale Urban Agriculture in Havana and the Reproduction of the ‘New Man’ in Contemporary Cuba

Drawing on ethnographic data collected in the  city of Havana, from 1999 to 2001, this paper  interrogates the purported rise in ‘individualistic’  and ‘capitalistic’ practices in post-Soviet Bloc Cuba. Specifically, the paper focuses on a group  of sites associated with the post-1989 ‘privatization...

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Main Author: Adriana Premat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CEDLA 2003-10-01
Series:European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Online Access:http://www.erlacs.org/articles/10.18352/erlacs.9695/