The Urban Gardens of Havana - Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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. The urban gardens are contested spaces: though monitored and controlled by Cuban state institutions, they also offer possibilities of crafting life in resistance. The experiences the authors narrate are not 'thick descriptions,' linked to larger political issues, but rather rhizomatic observations that highlight the relationships between humans and non-humans within the nature-culture debate. Using these experiences, the authors argue that 'the political' reaches beyond the affairs of state and governance and should be seen as an all-encompassing part of life. The authors thereby invite the social sciences to focus on the microscopic and the day-to-day to illuminate how the political affairs of lives can be imagined differently.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Ola Plonska • Younes Saramifar
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	101
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-012656-8
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Gardening > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-012656-0
Barcode:	9783030126568

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