The Urban Gardens of Havana Seeking Revolutionary Plants in Ideologized Spaces /

• Main Authors: Plonska, Ola (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Saramifar, Younes (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Ethnography.; Sociology, Urban.; Cultural studies.; Latin America-Politics and government.; Social Anthropology.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Cultural Studies.; Latin American Politics.

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 institution...