Under pressure

Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis

Bibliographic Data

ID5154022
AuthorsAlexandrine Boudreault‐fournier (0000-0003-0296-8413, University of Victoria, corresponding author), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Victoria)
Year2023
Volume41
Issue3
Pages392-410
Publication date2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02637758231181398
OpenAlexW4380608766
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited22

Pressure refers to a force exerted on humans, objects, and ecosystems that prevents or facilitates the flow and growth of things, movements, bodies, and ideas. Cuba has to cope with a lot of pressure due to the collapse of the tourist industry in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, an aging infrastructure, a malfunctioning system, and the long-lasting U.S. embargo. I propose to think through pressure in order to highlight some of the strategies adopted by people and other organisms to deal with or lower the pressure felt in their daily life. In reflecting on the current Cuban economic, social and humanitarian crisis, I aim at catching the pulse of the moment to shift the crisis-based discourse to one based on pressure. I focus on two types of pressure - air and blood - to think through the pulse of the post-COVID Cuban crisis. Pressure allows for a cross-sectorial and multi-scalar understanding of the connections between how people live and how they strive to develop coping mechanisms to face pressure

Blood pressure · Business · Coping (psychology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Pulse pressure · Sociology · Tourism · Cuban History and Society · Law · Medicine · Psychology

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