2014
DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12104
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“Dangerous” Youth: Tourism Space, Gender Performance, and the Policing of Havana Street Hustlers

Abstract: R e s u m e nEl desarrollo del sector turismo salvó a la economía cubana del colapso económico en la década de las 1990s, pero también produjo nuevos problemas de control social. Frente a estosúltimos, la re-especialización de la vida social fue obligatoria y las instituciones existentes resultaron insuficientes. La migración hacia La Habana sobrecargó la infraestructura urbana; los turistas extranjeros introdujeron ideas, valores y comportamientos que eran incompatibles con las normas revolucionarias; y la im… Show more

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“…I argue that although tourism is usually considered a mechanism that deepens existing inequalities and creates new ones, in the context of late socialist Cuba it becomes a resource that the creation of new ideas for community development and brings attention to various social issues. My research builds up on a rich body of work that considers impact of touristic transformations in Cuba (de la Fuente, 2011;Cabezas, 2004;Hodge, 2014;Medina Lasansky, 2004) while linking it to the critical reflection on Cuban revolutionary ideology (Fernández, 2000;Gordy, 2015), and strategies of community engagement.…”
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“…I argue that although tourism is usually considered a mechanism that deepens existing inequalities and creates new ones, in the context of late socialist Cuba it becomes a resource that the creation of new ideas for community development and brings attention to various social issues. My research builds up on a rich body of work that considers impact of touristic transformations in Cuba (de la Fuente, 2011;Cabezas, 2004;Hodge, 2014;Medina Lasansky, 2004) while linking it to the critical reflection on Cuban revolutionary ideology (Fernández, 2000;Gordy, 2015), and strategies of community engagement.…”
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confidence: 99%