Bøker av Jennifer Cearns

Exploringthe movements of Cuban material objects and digital content across borders Despite decades of diplomatic hostilities and economicsanctions, the border between Cuba and the United States--arguably one of themost politicized in the world--is in a state of constant flux. Tracing the flowsof people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, aswell as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, Circulating Culture explores how and why these circuits are a partof everyday life for millions of Cubans who negotiate extraordinarycircumstances daily. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research in theselocations, Jennifer Cearns highlights groups of Cuban society that are oftenoverlooked, considering what Cuban culture and identity mean in a transnationalsetting. Weaving evocative vignettes into her discussion of these largerquestions, Cearns pieces together the story of the creators of an emerging anddynamic network that punctures geopolitical boundaries and has outlasted aperiod of rapid social change--from the Obama administration through the deathof Fidel Castro and into the Trump administration. Ultimately, by focusing on everyday objects and thestrategies used to move them across borders, this book reveals how new culturalforms can develop from the cracks in societies often seen as "broken." Itdemonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cuban communities who have longbeen building their own infrastructures of possibility. A volume in the series New World Diasporas, edited by KevinA. Yelvington Publicationof this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the AmericanRescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.