Urban Gardens of Havana

Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This book relates stories of everyday life revolving around small-scale urban gardens in Central Havana and focusing particularly on that of Marcelo, a seventy-four-year-old revolutionary and gardener.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-26
Mått:148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt:294 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:101
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030126568

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Trädgårdsböcker inom Hem och Trädgård

Mer om författaren

Ola Plonska is an anthropologist and junior researcher affiliated with the department of social and cultural anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has published in journals such as the Journal for Cultural Research and is interested in human-nature relationships and the politics of food.Younes Saramifar is the Post-doctoral Einstein Research Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. His area of research is material culture of resistance movements and paramilitarism, as well as ecological crisis in precarious conditions of the Middle East.

Recensioner i media

“The Urban Gardens of Havana offers an insightful, detailed, theoretically rigorous and imaginative account of the relationships between urban farmers, the state and nonhuman entities in Cuba … .” (Sahib Singh, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, November 8, 2019)

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue: Whose Planet is it Anyway - Chapter 1. Introduction: Step into my Garden - Chapter 2. Intervening, Correcting, Rewarding - Chapter 3. The Garden - Chapter 4. Living in a Non-human's World - Chapter 5. Conclusion: Finally, How Does Everything Grow Together?