I have the bill! Household economic strategies against the Havana Special Period

Authors

  • Zulema Escalante Lara Escuela Latinoamericana de Estudios de Postgrado de la Universidad ARCIS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/antropologia.v0i6.19970

Keywords:

Cuban family, economic strategies, occupational diversification, selfemployment

Abstract

This paper, in an effort to recover part of everyday life, is intended primarily to analyze the economic strategies that have adopted the Cuban families as a result of structural changes in the national economy during the Special Period. Specifically aims to show, from three case studies, how the crisis following the collapse of the socialist bloc, has substantially changed the domestic economy of families in the city of Havana to integrating informal and illegal economic activities through which they have able to obtain more resources.

Author Biography

  • Zulema Escalante Lara, Escuela Latinoamericana de Estudios de Postgrado de la Universidad ARCIS

    Estudiante del Doctorado en Procesos Sociales y políticos en América Latina. Es Licenciada en Estudios Latinoamericanos por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. En la actualidad es asistente de investigación y editora de la Revista América Latina del Doctorado PROSPAL de la Escuela Latinoamericana de Estudios de Postgrado de la Universidad ARCIS, Santiago de Chile, y ha sido profesora en las Escuelas de Historia y Trabajo Social en la misma Universidad. Entre los años 1999 y 2004 realizó un estudio de campo en la ciudad de La Habana, en el que se observaron las estrategias económicas y la creación y mantenimiento de redes sociales de parentesco, vecinales y amistosas de diferentes familias, para constatar cómo los cambios generados en la economía familiar cubana son funcionales para la economía formal.

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Published

2008-12-30

Issue

No. 6 (2008)

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Articles

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I have the bill! Household economic strategies against the Havana Special Period. (2008). Revista De antropología, 6, 23-46. https://doi.org/10.15381/antropologia.v0i6.19970