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Read Time:3 Minute, 24 Second El pasado lunes aparecía la noticia de un pueblo asfixiado que clamaba por su libertad, sesenta y …
Cuban Food Security in a Time of COVID-19
The pandemic has created new opportunities and barriers to food access in Cuba’s two largest cities. Even before Cuba’s first case of …
Problemas bioéticos ¿emergentes o persistentes? expuestos por la pandemia COVID-19
JOSÉ RAMÓN ACOSTA SARIEGO El escenario de una catástrofe anunciada. La pandemia COVID-19 ha mostrado en toda su crudeza las falencias, vulnerabilidades, …
Values Revealed: COVID-19 in Cuba
CARLOS JESÚS DELGADO DÍAZ The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Cuba on March 11, 2020. Since then, 2291 patients have …
Goodbye “American Greatness”
Part 3 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Indispensable. Here was the so-called “indispensable nation,” the self-appointed saviour of the world, with …
Book Review: The Urban Gardens of Havana: Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces by Ola Plonska and Younes Saramifar
In The Urban Gardens of Havana: Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces, Ola Plonska and Younes Saramifar explore the poetics of gardening and narrate …
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Pearls before Swine
Pearls, in the Parish of St. Andrew’s, Grenada, just up the road from the main town of Grenville, is a unique place that …
Hearing the Unknown: Case Studies in Cuba and Taiwan
The saga of mysterious sounds afflicting US diplomats in Cuba—and more recently China–has appeared in the US news cycle intermittently over the …
Van masterscriptie naar gepubliceerd boek: The Urban Gardens of Havana
Door Ola Plonska In juli 2017 was het eindelijk zover. Na maandenlang hard werken was dit het moment om onze masterscripties in …
Americans Can Do Two Things at the Same Time
Surely we have heard and seen enough by now that any lingering “optimism” about Trump governing as an anti-interventionist in foreign affairs …
“Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded” (2014): Reversing Empire and the 1980s’ Drug War
Miami, and what became a Miami aesthetic, was probably one of the most distinctive and memorable features of the 1980s in North …
Competitive Hardship: ethnographic guilt and early-career pressure to conduct ‘authentic’ fieldwork
Jennifer Cearns is currently conducting ethnographic research in Miami, USA, and Havana, Cuba, focusing on practices of material and digital exchange, sharing …
“This garden is who I am”
by Ola Plonska This month the Master thesis ‘This Garden is who I am’ has been awarded as the best thesis written …
Fat Consequences
Obesity is about more than stigma, it is about exceeding one’s social space. Diabetes foot clinic, Apia, Samoa Looking over the shoulder …
What Happened to the American Empire?
Has anything out of the ordinary happened to the US as an imperialist power since the ascent of Trump to office? While …
“Capitalism Is Just around the Corner…”
A view on tourism and economic development from rural Cuba Expanding private business “Everyone is now crazy for renting,” my friend Julio …
Donald Trump, Empire, and Globalization: A Reassessment
“Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist,” Donald Trump recently declared, “I’m both”. The only way in which the two (seemingly contradictory) …
Life and Time after Fidel
What does the future hold for Cubans who came of age with the revolutionary state? On November 25, 2016, Fidel Castro Ruz …
In the Journals – January 2017
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, …
2016: The Ending of the Year of Beginnings
Probably the most memorable year in decades, 2016 was a non-stop accumulation of turning points and landmark events. In broad terms, we …
Open Borders, Global Citizenship, and the Working Class
In this and the next article I will discuss some of the politically contentious issues surrounding what some of us call “illegal …
Cuban imaginations of the future
Door Caroline van Slobbe Havana is full of small businesses. The most common entrepreneurs are ladies who sell cupcakes and cookies …
Press Release: Arbitrary Detention and Imminent Deportation of 147 Cubans
Press Release No. 2 | July 6, 2016 – 22:00 Quito-Ecuador Today in the early morning, between 2am and 3am, the Ministry …
Marina Gold: The end of the pink tide: Cuba
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of …