Food Diaries to Measure Food Access: A Case Study from Rural Cuba

Bono, Federica; Finn, John C.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2016.1157499

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“…Polanyi, 1944Polanyi, /2001, e.g. in agriculture and food, areas which are already plagued by significant problems, including scarcity and geographic and social inequalities (Bono, 2018;Bono & Finn, 2017).…”

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Cuban migrants and the making of Havana’s property market

2020

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The emerging literature on the globalization of real estate has addressed how internationally circulating capital has increasingly found its ways into housing markets of the "Global South". With relatively underdeveloped financial and real estate markets, these countries have discursively and materially been rebranded as emerging markets, that is, they have been shaped into frontiers in the global urbanization of capital. In this paper we scrutinize the transnational real estate networks that shape and reshape the Cuban housing market. First, we reconstruct how, following the 2011 legalization of housing prices set between buyers and sellers, Cuban migrants and a few foreign investors, in cooperation with Cubans residing in Cuba, are buying properties in Cuba's cities, beach resorts and other towns. Second, we explore the economic and extra-economic motives behind such transnational property transactions, highlighting how residential properties are bought and converted into private restaurants or hotels. Central to our analysis is that the present development is not simply shaped by local or national demand and processes but also by international investment. We contend that a pattern of economic globalization unfolds where transnational remittances, rather than institutional investments or mortgage finance, steer Cuba's emerging property market, along with local investments among Cuban citizens.

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2020

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“…The CCSs, where land remained in the hands of peasant families, and which have more limited formal responsibilities to the community, are more resilient. Today, CCS farmers and families seem to have become a more important source of local affordable food via interpersonal sales and gifts than the formally sanctioned local redistribution system of the CPA's autoconsumo (Bono and Finn 2017). Yet, solidarity from CCS farmers depends on affective ties between individuals only and is thus more selective than the comprehensive autoconsumo , which is also based on mutual interdependence.…”

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“…Households live on cooperative land (belonging to CPA1 or CCS1) and are either members of one of these two cooperatives or members of one of the three other cooperatives (CPA2, CPA3, or CCS2). We conducted 22 in‐depth interviews with members of the Board of Directors (BoD) of different cooperatives (3), active and retired CPA members (7), individual CCS farmers (8), and obreros (4), to maximize the variety of perspectives and relations to the cooperative covered (see Bono 2020; Bono and Finn 2017 for more on the field work methods and ethics). The interviews were semistructured and open‐ended, that is, carried out in a conversational manner, but following a certain line of inquiry (Yin 2003).…”

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Spatializing Solidarity: Agricultural Cooperatives as Solidarity Transformers in Cuba*

Bono

Loopmans

2021

Rural Sociology

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Scholars and social movements have long studied how cooperative values of solidarity and democracy can spill over to the rest of the society. However, such studies have failed to develop a sociospatial theory of solidarity. Focusing on two types of agricultural cooperatives in Cuba, this paper draws on recent geography literature on solidarity to explore the sociospatial dimensions of cooperative solidarity. We find that cooperatives represent a crucial nexus between grassroots, lived community‐based solidarity practices and top‐down, multiscalar, organized solidarities and act as transformers between mechanical and organic solidarity. Cooperatives may lose their capacity for catalyzing solidarity if market pressure disturbs the sociospatial entanglement of grassroots and top‐down efforts.

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“…The dominant approaches on the black market in Cuba either consider it as a form of dynamic entrepreneurialism that bears the hopeful seeds of a transition to a capitalist economy (e.g., Henken, 2005 amongst others) or as detrimental to the socialist redistributive system and something which should be eradicated (Morris, 2014). However, I saw a much more nuanced functioning of the black market that, interlinked with community and solidarity relationships, did not always appear contradictory to the socialist economy and allowed me to move beyond the politicized accounts of the Cuban economy (Bono, 2018;Bono and Finn, 2017).…”

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Illegal or unethical? Situated ethics in the context of a dual economy

Bono

2019

Qualitative Research

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In this paper, I draw on my experiences doing field research in Cuba, to contribute to the idea that participating in illegal activities is not necessarily unethical. Using a reflexive analysis, I argue that as a foreign researcher in Cuba’s dual economy, full participation in Cubans’ daily life—though illegal for both the researcher and the participants—was necessary to establish trust. This allowed me to gain social access to the field while allowing participants to spread the risk. Ultimately, it led to a more accurate account of Cubans’ daily practices through which I was able to address unbalanced and misinformed interpretations of the island and its people, which is crucial in the midst of highly politicized literature on Cuba.

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Food Diaries to Measure Food Access: A Case Study from Rural Cuba

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Cuban migrants and the making of Havana’s property market

Cuban migrants and the making of Havana’s property market

Spatializing Solidarity: Agricultural Cooperatives as Solidarity Transformers in Cuba*

Illegal or unethical? Situated ethics in the context of a dual economy

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