Aging and Generations in Cuba
Unravelling the Care Crisis
1st Edition
Published on 17. April 2023
256 pages
978-1-6669-0464-2 (ISBN)
Description
Based on a twelve-year ethnographic study in Havana and rural areas, this book examines the current crisis of eldercare in Cuba, underpinned by advanced demographic aging. With great humanity and a lively narrative, Destremau-Zeitz shows how intergenerational households enact interdependency and solidarity in response to the many complexities of daily life and a protracted economic crisis. Beyond the multidimensional crisis of care, the author argues that Cuba is facing a crisis of social reproduction that appears specific to (ex)socialist countries but holds lessons for many of the world's developed nations as well.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-0464-2 (9781666904642)
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Book
05/2023
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Persons
Blandine Destremau-Zeitz is Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Content
Chapter 1 Living and Cohabitating: Practical Interdependence
Chapter 2 Generations and Revolution: "Here, There Is No Life"
Chapter 3 Consumption and Deprivation: Time and Money
Chapter 4 The Elderly's Care Work: Overburdened Grandparents
Chapter 5 Aging Well: The Political Ethics of Self-Care on Trial
Chapter 6 Aging in the Family: From Love to Exhaustion
Chapter 7 Who's Going to Take Care of Me? The Anguish of Aging Alone
Chapter 2 Generations and Revolution: "Here, There Is No Life"
Chapter 3 Consumption and Deprivation: Time and Money
Chapter 4 The Elderly's Care Work: Overburdened Grandparents
Chapter 5 Aging Well: The Political Ethics of Self-Care on Trial
Chapter 6 Aging in the Family: From Love to Exhaustion
Chapter 7 Who's Going to Take Care of Me? The Anguish of Aging Alone
