Ebrary electronic monographs.

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

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations.

RGS-IBG book series.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Print version: Wilson, Marisa L. Everyday moral economies : food, politics and scale in Cuba. Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 xxvi, 232 pages RGS-IBG book series

English

9781118302019 e-book
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