&lt;i&gt;Inventar&lt;/i&gt;: Recent Struggles and Inventions in Housing in Two Cuban Cities

Real, Patricio del; Pertierra, Anna Cristina

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“…In addition to being a risky strategy, the possibility of gaining investment funds by switching homes is accessible only to a minority. In Cuba's major cities, homeowners are more likely to face the opposite reality, because housing arrangements have grown increasingly cramped due to a population flow from the countryside to the cities, deepening the Cuban housing crisis (Del Real & Pertierra, 2008).…”

Section: Creative Banking With Propertymentioning

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Infrabanking: Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba

Wig

2023

Economic Anthropology

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In 2011, the Cuban government authorized banks to start offering loan credit to the country's growing number of small businesses for the first time since the beginning of the revolution. Yet in the following years, citizens have largely circumvented these services. This article draws on twenty months of fieldwork among market traders in Havana to examine why so few Cubans rely on the formal banking system to secure capital. It analyzes alternative methods people employ to organize their financial futures, by leveraging kinship ties, partnerships, friendships, property, and loan sharks, and by participating in rotating savings and credit associations. To understand the advantages these approaches offer to mobilize capital, it is crucial to grasp how people navigate their economic lives in ways that are influenced but not dictated by short‐term considerations of net profit. Nonmonetary concerns about access, time frame, and visibility lead people to raise and store wealth outside the formal banking system, constituting a domain I call infrabanking: banking practices that are too far removed from the established assumptions about banking to be perceived as part of the same phenomenon.

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Section: Creative Banking With Propertymentioning

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Infrabanking: Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba

Wig

2023

Economic Anthropology

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“…O desmantelamento parece ser a revelação de um tesouro a ser carregado, explorado, remontado, redefinido, reposto (Del Real e Pertierra 2008;Pertierra 2010;Schwenkel 2012Schwenkel , 2013Navaro-Yashin 2007). Desmantelar, sugeriria, não é desfazer.…”

Section: Sucatas Do Estado Em Casas Particulares: Reconstruçõesunclassified

“…Ir ao encontro desse transmutável mundo açucareiro possibilitou-me fugir de uma explicação genérica e macroscópica da precariedade da economia a partir apenas de elementos históricos e estatísticos do período especial. Nesse exercício, busquei inspiração e apoio analítico nas contribuições da antropologia sobre Cuba que se afastam de qualquer argumentação que abra brechas para construir esse "período" como uma resposta prévia, familiar e abarcadora para diferentes fraturas e feituras sociais (por exemplo, Brotherton 2012; Del Real e Pertierra 2008;Pertierra 2010;Holbraad 2010;Stout 2014). Juntos -e entre eles também se insere a minha abordagem -, tais trabalhos demonstram que na paisagem pós-soviética cubana o período especial atua como um actante (Latour 2008) no meio de muitos outros, não menos relevantes e potentes para pensar as conformações do social.…”

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No hay vida: dismantling and permanence in Cuban bateyes

Castro

2020

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Em 2002, o governo cubano publicou um documento que explicitava a necessidade de "reestruturar" o campo açucareiro. Dezenas de usinas foram, então, desarmadas e desmanteladas, deixando os bateyes sem aquilo que lhes trazia "vida" e "movimento". Neste artigo, intento apresentar como esse processo de "reestruturação" e, ao mesmo tempo, "deterioração" foi percebido, avaliado e ultrapassado pelas pessoas que foram diretamente afetadas por ele. Para tanto, conjugo, numa espécie de descrição por contraste e modulação de escala, as perspectivas do Estado -representada pelos programas de ação e pela construção de uma ideia de "eficiência"e dos moradores de diferentes áreas que viviam da produção de açúcar, para os quais a formulação de temporalidades e o manuseio de materiais aparecem como formas de reajustar um mundo rompido. Do início ao fim, demonstro como o açúcar, ausente, mas presentificado em arruinamentos, é uma substância de longa duração que produz paisagens e altera subjetividades.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: arruinamentos, espaços afetivos, batey açucareiro, Cuba. No hay vida: dismantling and permanence in Cuban bateyes  In 2002Cuban government published a document that made explicit the need to "restructure" the sugar field. Dozens of mills were then disarmed and dismantled, leaving the bateyes without what brought "life" and gave "movement" to them. In this article, I intend to show how this process of both "restructuring" and "deterioration" was perceived, evaluated and surpassed by the people who were directly affected by it. I conjugate, in a kind of description built on contrasts, the perspectives of the State -represented by the programs of action and the construction of an idea of "efficiency" -and those of the inhabitants from different areas that made their living from sugar production, for whom the formulation of temporalities and the manipulation of materials appear as ways of readjusting a broken world. From beginning to end, I indicate how sugar, embodied in ruinations, is a long-lived substance that produces landscapes and modifies subjectivities.

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Havana’s Falling Tanks and Flooded Laneways: Examining the Acoustic Community

Andrisani

2019

Sound, Media, Ecology

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<i>Inventar</i>: Recent Struggles and Inventions in Housing in Two Cuban Cities

Cited by 23 publications

References 11 publications

Infrabanking: Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba

Infrabanking: Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba

No hay vida: dismantling and permanence in Cuban bateyes

Havana’s Falling Tanks and Flooded Laneways: Examining the Acoustic Community

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