A01=Blandine Destremau-Zeitz
Author_Blandine Destremau-Zeitz
care deficit
Category=JHMC
demographic aging
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Ethnography
intergenerational households
postsocialist countries
reproductive crisis
sexual division of labor
Sociology
Product details
- ISBN 9781666904635
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 159 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Blandine Destremau-Zeitz is Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
