Everyday Moral Economies

Marisa Wilson is a social anthropologist and Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Her present research involves political and moral economies of food and (un)sustainable consumption, especially in relation to uneven processes of globalization and neoliberalization in the Caribbean. She has published in both geography and anthropology journals, including Food, Culture and Society, the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, the International Journal of Cuban Studies, and the Journal of Rural and Community Development.

“The book will be of interest to geographers engaged in debates on diverse economies, as well as those pursuing work on food security, food sovereignty, and/or the politics of food.”  (The Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe Canadien, 25 October 2015)“If I had to evaluate Everyday moral economies in just two words, these would most probably be ‘useful’ and ‘balanced’. Useful because to my knowledge it is the most comprehensive treatment on the theme of food consumption and production in Cuba, providing valuable information on the theme from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Balanced because, although it deals with an utterly political side of Cuba and the Revolution, it does not hastily take sides between a (neo)liberal or a socialist mode of production and political organization.” (Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23.3, 4 August 2017)

• Series Editors’ Preface ix Preface xiAcknowledgements xxiiiList of Acronyms xxv1 Introduction 12 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan 333 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption 734 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions and Reciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption 995 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges that Connect State, Market and Civil Society 1216 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the Small Farming Sector 1537 Conclusion 181Appendices 199Index 211