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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Perpetual Revolution -- 2 Accounts of the Revolution -- 3 Practices of the Revolution -- 4 Discourses on the Revolution -- 5 Limits of the Revolution -- 6 The Revolution and the State -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book is a political and anthropological analysis of the concept of Revolution as it is understood and experienced by Cubans in their daily lives. Urban agricultural movements, alternative medicine, self-employment, and migration reveal complex interactions and disrupt assumptions that the Cuban sate is a static, anachronistic regime.

The Swiss system of direct democracy is in many ways paradoxical.
The federal structure counteracts the formation of centralizing
state hierarchies and protects the egalitarian representation of local political
interests. Simultaneously, local political structures can have hierarchical
and exclusionary effects, especially when democratic processes are
turned into values. This article considers the tensions between egalitarian
and hierarchical values in Swiss democratic structures in the wake
of the rise of anti-foreigner and anti-EU passions harnessed by extreme
right-wing parties. These tensions are heightened in the context of global
processes that are transforming the structures of the state, as corporate
power undermines state apparatuses with the potential to subvert democratic
practices.

Private urban agricultural ventures, initially a spontaneous response to food shortages during the Special Period, soon became a state‐sponsored project, related to global notions of sustainability. This article explores the relationship between sustainability discourse and its local dimensions to reveal the role of sustainability in the reformulation of the Revolution. Urban gardeners engage with international discourses of sustainability and interact with the Cuban state's articulation of these discourses. While this process forces urban gardeners to adapt to the changing meanings of growing food, it also provides a different language through which gardeners define themselves, especially in the context of a changing relationship with the state.

Introduction.The Pink Tide, egalitarianism and the corporate State in Latin Americas / Marina Gold and Alessandro Zagato -- State corporatization and warfare in Mexico / Alessandro Zagato -- Political parties, big business, social movements and the 'voice of the people': views from above and below on the crisis created by the 2016 Coup in Brazi / John Gledhill and Maria Gabriela Hita -- The election of MAS, its egalitarian potential, and its contradictions. Lessons from Bolivia / Leonidas Oikonomakis -- What is in the 'people's interest'? Discourses of egalitarianism and 'development as compensation' in contemporary Ecuador / Erin Fitz-Henry and Denisse Rodriquez Quinonez -- The neoliberal state and post-transition democracy in Chile. Local public action and indigenous political demands / Francisca de la Maza Cabrera -- More state? On authority and the conditions for egalitarianism in Venezuela / Luis Angosto-Ferrández -- Egalitarian and hierarchical tensions in Cuban self-employed ventures / Marina Gold -- Social banditry and the legal in the corporate state of Peru / Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard -- Conclusion .Egalitarianism and dynamics of oppression: constitutive processes / Alessandro Zagato and Marina Gold -- Afterword / Bruce Kapferer.

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. Contributions from anthropologists from around the world from different theoretical traditions and with expertise in a multiplicity of ethnographic areas makes this collection a provocative contribution to larger discussions not only in anthropology but the social sciences more broadly