Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba To Not Di
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba focuses on the lives of low-income Havana residents over the life cycle from birth to death. The book documents how kinship and love relations are created, reproduced, and negotiated at different
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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba: To Not Die Alone
Heidi Härkönen
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba To Not Die Alone
Heidi Härkönen Helsinki, Finland
ISBN 978-1-137-58075-7 ISBN 978-1-137-58076-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58076-4
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To my daughter Solana, the sunshine of my life.
PREFACE
Large-scale historical formations such as liberal capitalism, socialism, and post-socialism structure not only state policies and institutions, but they also influence ordinary people’s intimate experiences of love and family life. Such abstract ideological formations materialize and take shape only through the everyday lives and social worlds of the people who live under these particular historical conditions. At the same time, individuals mold the form that political and economic configurations take on the ground. The 1959 Cuban revolution was one of world’s largest social experiments in the pursuit of creating a new society and new men capable of advancing the nation toward a socialist future. By a thorough reformation of the country’s politics and economics, the revolutionary government also sought to install social transformations that would shape profoundly not only work, housing, education, and health, but also individuals’ family, love, and sexual relations and core understandings of their bodies and personhood. Indeed, Cubans’ entire life course was to be marked by the revolutionary egalitarianism pursued by Fidel Castro: the state was to take care of the individual from cradle to grave whereas people, on their behalf, were to dedicate their lives to the construction of a so
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