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Everyday moral economies : food, politics and scale in Cuba / Marisa Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: RGS-IBG book seriesPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118302026
  • 1118302028
  • 9781118302019
  • 111830201X
  • 9781118302033
  • 1118302036
  • 1118302001
  • 9781118302002
  • 1118301927
  • 9781118301920
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Everyday moral economies.DDC classification:
  • 338.1/97291 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9014.C92
Other classification:
  • SCI030000
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.Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes 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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social Sciences and Humanities