Cuba in the Shadow of Change

Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20008491
AutoresAmelia Rosenberg Weinreb (0000-0003-4945-9229, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Páginas272
Fecha de publicación2009-09-27
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaCuba in the shadow of change (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity Press of Florida (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5744/florida/9780813033693.001.0001
OpenAlexW2338962902
Open LibraryOL23186857M
ISBN9780813033693
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18

This book travels deep inside the everyday life of middle-class Cubans—arguably the majority of citizens on the island. Un-theorized and under-described, it is a group that is portrayed honestly, accurately, and empathetically. The political and economic systems of Cuba in the post-Soviet period pose ongoing challenges to ordinary Cubans as they struggle in the waning years of the Castro regime. The book demonstrates that the major reason they have been ignored in the scholarly literature is because remaining obscure is one of their strategies for coping with these challenges. The author of this book made many visits to the island, frequently living in local communities along with her family. Thus, the ethnography of this “shadow public” is based upon traditional participant-observer methodology. Being based on experiences—from the clothesline, the back bedroom, the kitchen table, and the living room sofa—allow this book to bring to outsides the reality of daily life in Cuba. The book includes an epilogue that addresses citizen and consumer changes that have taken place since Raúl Castro became president in February 2008, revealing the anxieties and clandestine plans that have shaped Cubans' lives during the final years of the Fidel Castro era

Aesthetics · Art · Bedroom · Ethnography · Everyday life · Media studies · Middle class · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Shadow (psychology) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Psychology · 1959 · 21st century · Alltag · Consumption (Economics) · Cuba · Economic anthropology · Economic conditions · Economic history · Ethnology · Manners and customs · Mittelstand · politics and government · revolution · Social change · Social classes · Social conditions · Social life and customs