People and State in Socialist Cuba - Ideas and Practices of Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Marina Gold is an Argentinean-born Australian anthropologist. She completed her PhD in Anthropology in 2012 at Deakin University, Australia. Her areas of expertise are in political and economic anthropology, development studies and Caribbean and Latin American studies. She has taught at the University of Sydney and at Macquarie University in Australia, and currently lives in Switzerland. Klappentext This book is a political and anthropological analysis of the concept of Revolution as it is understood and experienced by Cubans in their daily lives. Urban agricultural movements, alternative medicine, self-employment, and migration reveal complex interactions and disrupt assumptions that the Cuban sate is a static, anachronistic regime. Zusammenfassung This book is a political and anthropological analysis of the concept of Revolution as it is understood and experienced by Cubans in their daily lives. Urban agricultural movements! alternative medicine! self-employment! and migration reveal complex interactions and disrupt assumptions that the Cuban sate is a static! anachronistic regime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Content Abbreviations 1. Perpetual Revolution 2. Accounts of Revolution 3. Practices of Revolution 4. Discourses on Revolution 5. Limits of Revolution 6. Revolution and the State Bibliography

List of contents

Table of Content
Abbreviations
1. Perpetual Revolution
2. Accounts of Revolution
3. Practices of Revolution
4. Discourses on Revolution
5. Limits of Revolution
6. Revolution and the State
Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Marina Gold
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781137539816
• ISBN: 978-1-137-53981-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Anthropology, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Palgrave Political Science Collection, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Latin America—Politics and government, South & Central America (including Mexico), Latin America, Latin American Politics, American Politics