Cuba's Alternative Geographies

Hernández-Reguant, Ariana

doi:10.1525/jlca.2005.10.2.275

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“…Likewise, with more Cubans being able to travel in and out of the island, the “two shores” are bleeding into one another. While research on Cubans in the United States is starting to bring out the richness of experiences in the capital of exile, this article contributes to a new wave of studies of contemporary Cuba, in which borders are being redrawn and Cuba's “alternative geographies” are explored (Hernández‐Reguant 2005).…”

Section: Changing Contours Of a Contested Islandmentioning

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Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain

Berg

2009

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m e n Este artículo contribuye a los debates recientes en estudios de diáspora sobre la relació n entre procesos de exclusió n, experiencias de desplazamiento y memorias de país de origen existentes en la producció n de subjetividades diaspó ricas. El artículo concierne a la diáspora cubana en España, la cual consiste de aproximadamente 50,000 personas. Estas personas representan refutadas prácticas y discursos sobre origen y desplazamiento, sobre pertenecer y no pertenecer. En este artículo sostengo que la noció n de ''generació n diaspó rica'' nos puede ayudar a entender los modos contrastantes en que los cubanos habitan diáspora. Las generaciones diaspó ricas se basan en trayectorias de migració n. É stas ponen los aspectos temporales de la formació n de la diáspora en primer plano y por encima de aspectos espaciales. Sostengo que para las dos generaciones más recientes de esta diáspora, prácticas y discursos de exclusió n tanto en el país de origen como en el lugar de la diáspora igual que entre la primera generació n de la diáspora han contribuido en la producció n de subjetividades desterritorializadas. This article is a contribution to recent debates within diaspora studies of the relationship between processes of exclusion, experiences of displacement, and memories of homeland in the production of diasporic subjectivities. It concerns the Cuban diaspora in Spain, consisting of approximately 50,000 people who represent contesting practices and discourses of home and away, belonging and not-belonging. In the article I argue that to understand diasporic Cubans' contrastive modes of inhabiting Diaspora, the notion of ''diasporic generations'' is helpful. Diasporic generations are based on trajectories of migration, thus foregrounding the temporal aspects of Diaspora formation over spatial aspects. I argue that among the two most recent generations of this Diaspora, practices and discourses of exclusion in both homeland and diasporic location as well as among the first generation of the diaspora have led to the production of deterritorialized subjectivities.

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Section: Changing Contours Of a Contested Islandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain

Berg

2009

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…It does not include economic texts. Nor does it explore anthropological studies, where there has been real progress in non-Cubans' undertaking fieldwork, much of it connected to Miguel Barnet's Fundación Fernando Ortiz (see Hernández-Reguant, 2005).…”

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Book Review: Reading the State and Civil Society

Bengelsdorf

2009

Latin American Perspectives

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If the Cuban Revolution can be said to have gone through stages, so too have the studies of it in the field of the social sciences. 1 During the first wave of these studies, the classic Cubanologists reigned: using external paradigms, they argued that the Cuban Revolution could only be understood as a replication of Soviet-style totalitarianism or, alternatively, within the framework of modernization "theories." Their palette was wide-ranging: they focused with broad strokes upon the economy, the state, Fidel himself. For them, given their models, there was no civil society in revolutionary Cuba: civil society by definition could consist only of those who opposed the revolution. Miami was therefore Cuban civil society.The second wave of social scientists writing about the revolution emerged, at least partly, in response to the Cubanologists and very much to the left of them. Here again, the focus was on broad categories, but the emphasis was upon disproving and/or going beyond the models employed by the first generation This second wave looked to the interplay of external and internal in seeking to understand the Cuban Revolution as the protagonist of its own history. It attempted to give a different outline to the discussion of civil society by focusing in part on grassroots mobilization and participation. However, restrictions on field research made it difficult to examine these arenas except in relation to the institutions the revolution classified as civil society: the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, the Federation of Cuban Women, the Cuban Workers' Union, etc. Now, a third generation of social science literature has begun to take shape. At their cores, these studies center upon explorations, along diverse lines of inquiry, of the

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“…However, it is difficult to locate Cuba within centre‐periphery dynamics. Its diverse history and multiple contexts elude regional categorizations (be it Caribbean, Latin America or former Soviet Bloc), as explored by Hernandez‐Reguant (). It is this unclear positionality of Cuba that makes it an interesting case to explore – as a country that has not abandoned the socialist ideology and the one that shares qualities both with Latin America and the Caribbean and despite its proximity to the United States remains outside of its sphere of influence, trying to carve Cuba's own model for development.…”

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Cuban private entrepreneurship – from periphery to key sector of the economy in tourism‐oriented market socialism

Ana

Lubiński²

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The aim of this article is to explore shifts in the role of Cuban private sector within the broader context of tourism economies. Based on ethnographic data collected on two types of private businesses offering their services to tourism-rooms for rent and dance schools-we explore how this formerly peripheral sector of the economy became key in the period of Cuba's transition to market socialism.We explore processes of its internationalization and professionalization while it remains heavily informed by subsistence economies and navigates through shifting regulations of the ideologically socialist state.

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Cuba's Alternative Geographies

Cited by 46 publications

References 18 publications

Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain

Homeland and Belonging among Cubans in Spain

Book Review: Reading the State and Civil Society

Cuban private entrepreneurship – from periphery to key sector of the economy in tourism‐oriented market socialism

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