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State Power, Private Plots and the Greening of Havana's Urban Agriculture Movement
Author(s) -
PREMAT ADRIANA
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-744x.2009.01014.x
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , agriculture , power (physics) , ethnography , social movement , movement (music) , juncture , space (punctuation) , greening , political science , urban agriculture , urban greening , sociology , political economy , politics , economy , geography , economics , law , anthropology , archaeology , aesthetics , engineering , philosophy , algorithm , linguistics , structural engineering , computer science , quantum mechanics , physics
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over a decade from 1997 to 2007 in Havana, Cuba, this paper applies Henri Lefebvre's insights on the social production of space to the processes involved in the creation of officially‐sanctioned sustainable urban agriculture sites. Without denying the important function of the state in these processes, this paper highlights the significant role played by a range of non‐state actors, and interests, largely left out from most scholarly accounts of Cuba's recent agricultural developments. In this manner, the paper offers a more refined understanding of the influence and the limits of the Cuban state at the current historical juncture.