EAN: 9783030126568

THE URBAN GARDENS OF HAVANA - OLA PLONSKA YOUNE...

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.

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