The ‘Cuban Spring’ Fallacy
The Current Incarnation of a Persistent Narrative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22326288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lana Wylie (McMaster University), Lana Wylie Lana Wylie, Lisa M Glidden (0000-0002-1951-9035, York University), Lisa Glidden Lisa Glidden |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cuban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-3461 • E-ISSN: 1756-347X |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/intejcubastud.5.2.0140 |
| OpenAlex | W839761569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper explores the role of communications technology in the U.S.-Cuban relationship. It argues that the idea that anti-government dissidents will use the Internet, cell phones, and social media to foment a popular uprising on the island, modelled after the ‘Arab Spring’ is flawed because it fails to take into account the uniqueness of the Cuban situation. The paper then explores how it has become possible for this idea to have gained such traction in certain discourses in the United States. In doing so, the paper considers the history of paternalism and imperial hubris that has dominated U.S. policy toward Cuba, with an emphasis on the relationship during the Castro era. The paper demonstrates that current U.S. policy rests on fallacious assumptions about Cuba, the Cuban state and the relationship between the Cuban state and the Cuban people. The belief in a ‘Cuban Spring’ and in the idea that the United States could engender revolution in Cuba via communications technology is part of this larger narrative
Epistemology · Fallacy · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies
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The Information Age and the Printing Press
Bowling Alone
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
Cartoon Cuba
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Technologies of Civil Society
Society, Civil Society, and the State
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Civil Society and Cyber Society
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Limits of Crisis Management
Dark Guests and Great Firewalls
Making Democracy Work
Liberation Technology
Can Cuba Change? Ferment in Civil Society
Tuning In, Tuning Out
Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro
Blessings of Liberty
Cuba in Transition? The Civil Sphere's Challenge to the Castro Regime
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States and Social Revolutions
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |