{"product_id":"everyday-moral-economies-food-politics-and-scale-in-cuba-paperback-softback-9781118301920","title":"Everyday Moral Economies; Food, Politics and Scale in Cuba (Paperback \/ softback) 9781118301920","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEveryday Moral Economies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFood, Politics and Scale in Cuba\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wilson provides a hugely important corrective to our tendency to take for granted the dominant systems of food production, exchange and consumption. Her ethnographic account of how ordinary Cubans live and link two coeval economic systems helps us to appreciate the underlying scales and values that all economic systems express. An excellent combination of the best of anthropology and human geography.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Miller, Professor of Material Culture, University College London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEveryday Moral Economies\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating study of food provisioning and the creation of value in contemporary Cuba. Skilfully combining a geographical understanding of the politics of scale with an anthropological sensitivity to the vicissitudes of daily life, Marisa Wilson reveals how the contradictions between food-as-commodity (within globalised neoliberal markets) and food-as-entitlement (with a socialist planned economy) are resolved in everyday social practice.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Jackson, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarisa Wilson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118301920, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 1.4 cm, 0.336 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book will be of interest to geographers engaged in debates on diverse economies, as well as those pursuing work on food security, food sovereignty, and\/or the politics of food.”  (\u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Canadian Geographer\/Le Geographe Canadien\u003c\/i\u003e, 25 October 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“If I had to evaluate \u003ci\u003eEveryday moral economies\u003c\/i\u003e in just two words, these would most probably be ‘useful’ and ‘balanced’. Useful because to my knowledge it is the most comprehensive treatment on the theme of food consumption and production in Cuba, providing valuable information on the theme from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Balanced because, although it deals with an utterly political side of Cuba and the Revolution, it does not hastily take sides between a (neo)liberal or a socialist mode of production and political organization.” (\u003ci\u003eAnastasios Panagiotopoulos, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23.3, \u003c\/i\u003e4 August 2017)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal of food as an entitlement and the market value of food as a commodity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBridges the fields of human geography and anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eApproaches food networks and the scale of food systems in a novel way\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a comprehensive look at Cuba today, with coverage of history, politics, economics, and social and environmental justice\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEnhanced by vivid photos from the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface ix  \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Acronyms xxv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions and Reciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges that Connect State, Market and Civil Society 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the Small Farming Sector 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Conclusion 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendices 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 211\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52417764360472,"sku":"9781118301920","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781118301920.jpg?v=1784507372","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/everyday-moral-economies-food-politics-and-scale-in-cuba-paperback-softback-9781118301920","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}