Everyday Moral Economies: Food, Politics and Scale in Cuba -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Crossovers in anthropology and geography I -- Caveats and limitations -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- Political economies: re-connecting 'is' and 'ought' -- Shifting scales of responsibility -- Crossovers in anthropology and geography II -- The economy-culture relation -- Positioning the ethnographer I: habitual and representational knowledge -- Positioning the ethnographer II: food and the 'politics of negotiation' -- The provisioning perspective -- Outline of the chapters -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Historical Emergence of a National Leviathan -- The first revolution 'of the humble, for the humble and by the humble' -- José Martí and contradictions of Cuba's creation myth -- Town and country in the early republic: pre-revolutionary values of commodities and culture, work and reciprocity -- Agrarianism, Guevara and the Great Debate -- Pendulum shifts and moral continuities -- Notes -- References -- 3 Scarcities, Uneven Access and Local Narratives of Consumption -- The ideal of national re-distribution and the reality of uneven access -- Gaps in the national oikos -- Collective needs versus individual desires -- Local narratives of consumption and the Fight -- Being a luchador -- Scarcity and C uban irony -- Negotiating individual desires with national norms: 'want' versus 'like' -- Notes -- References -- 4 Changing Landscapes of Care: Re-distributions and Reciprocities in the World of Tutaño Consumption -- Reciprocity and re-distribution: a comparative view -- Merit and nourishment -- 'Hunger' in post-1990s T uta: means testing for food and energy -- Hunger and need -- Continuities and change in the social contract -- Notes -- References.

5 Localizing the Leviathan: Hierarchies and Exchanges that Connect State, Market and Civil Society -- Institutions and ideologies of the national moral economy -- Democratic centralism and scalar hierarchies -- Traversing public and private in everyday life -- Levels of culture model and the nation as a family -- Shifting scales of appropriate exchange -- Spaces and exchanges in between state and civil society: the case of jefes -- Normative distinctions between emerging entrepreneurs in Tuta -- Insiders and outsiders in the market sphere: particulares and familiares -- Jineteros: the dangerous realm of the 'interested' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 The Scalar Politics of Sustainability: Transforming the Small Farming Sector -- Food and other 'sovereignties' in Cuba -- Positioning small farmers in Cuba: the agroecology movement in historical context -- Controlling the mercenary, designating the worthy: small farming and national institutions -- Regulating small-scale production: the Acopio, Fruta Selecta and Granja Urbana -- Separating the worthy from the unworthy: a case study of Eduardo -- Shifting borders of Cuban agroecology -- Notes -- References -- 7 Conclusion -- Alternative economic geographies and systems of provisioning: contributions and possibilities -- The domestic food economy in Cuba as an alternative economic geography -- Alternative systems of food provisioning in Cuba: potentialities and drawbacks -- Towards value pluralism -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1 Key Political Economic Events of the Cuban Revolution -- Appendix 2 Daily Nutritional Requirements in Cuba -- Appendix 3 Institutional Levels for National Food Provisioning -- Appendix 4 Monthly Food Rations per Person -- Appendix 5 Weekly Household Food Purchases -- Appendix 6 The Cuban Urban Agriculture Programme -- Index.