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.

Table of 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

 

Lexington Books, 256 pages :

• 978-1-66690-463-5 • Hardback • May 2023 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
• 978-1-66690-464-2 • eBook • April 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

https://rowman.com/isbn/9781666904642