Dr. Hope Bastian is currently the Associate Director for the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad/Cuba Divisional Cente and a professor at the Colegio Universitario San Gerónimo de La Habana, Universidad de La Habana. Her research looks at social capital, social networks and social mobility and economic and social inequalities in contemporary Havana. As an anthropologist she has done research in Cuba since 2012. Hope's new book is Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility, and Emerging Inequalities (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).

 

Read Hope's Book:

Some Highlights: 

Post-Soviet Cuba

Surviving in the "Special Period"

How Cubans rely on community to solve problems

Anthropological approaches to contemporary issues

Changes in Cuba during the Presidency of Barack Obama

The different economies under Raul and Fidel Castro

Emerging inequalities in Cuban society

Suggestions for further reading: 

https://youtu.be/5_aMde4YWoM

 

NB: This episode first aired in June 2018 as "Everyday Adjustments in Havana"