Plonska / Saramifar The Urban Gardens of Havana
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-12657-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces
E-Book, Englisch, 101 Seiten
Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet
ISBN: 978-3-030-12657-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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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Prologue: Whose Planet is it Anyway - Chapter 1. Introduction: Step into my Garden - Chapter 2. Intervening, Correcting, Rewarding - Chapter 3. The Garden - Chapter 4. Living in a Non-human's World - Chapter 5. Conclusion: Finally, How Does Everything Grow Together?