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TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
wiley   +1 more source

The Function of Physical Space in the Cuban Novel of the 1950s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyLong overshadowed by the subsequent 1960s ‘Boom’, Cuban novels of the 1950s have been confined to the backwater of ...
Ingham, Jill
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Emigration and Regime Stability: Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism [PDF]

open access: yes
The ‘Cuban safety-valve theory’ explains sustained survival of Cuban socialism in part through the high levels of emigration, following Hirschman’s model of ‘exit’ undermining ‘voice’.
Bert Hoffmann
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Women in Cuba: The Emancipatory Revolution

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cuban Studies, 2016
The triumph of the Cuban Revolution has created the most remarkable political, economic and social upheaval in the history of Latin America. Since its beginning in 1959, the new government, led by Fidel Castro, has placed the poor – especially women and ...
Salim Lamrani   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Women and the Cuban Revolution

open access: yes, 2023
This study focuses on women during and soon after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. This work focuses on the expectations and roles of women who participated in the rebellion and those that were placed on them after the Cuban Revolution as ...
Tollison, Lucy
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Unraveling the “Cuban miracle”: A conversation with Dr. Enrique Beldarrain Chaple

open access: yesSocial Medicine, 2014
An interview with a Cuban physician and professor of Epidemiology and Anthropology at the Medical University of Havana, Cuba, unravels so-called Cuban miracle, by laying out the history and foundations of a health system built on the principles of health
Claudia Chaufan
doaj  

Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
wiley   +1 more source

Battle of Ideas, is defense of our ideology

open access: yesRevista MENDIVE, 2006
The article is about the meaning of the Battle of Ideas, as rampart for the consolidation and defense of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution. In this article, it is presented the historical moment in which a new stage begins in the battle of ideas ...
Lidia Cira Carbonell Izquierdo
doaj  

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