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The Cuba Fieldcourse

Resources: Reading List

Carranza Valdés, J., Gutiérrez Urdaneta, L. & Monreal, P. (1996) Cuba: restructuring the economy - a contribution to the debate. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London: London.

Hatchwell, E. & Calder, S. (2000) Cuba: a guide to the people, politics and culture. Interlink: New York.

Kalk, T. (Ed.) (1998) Globalisation and Neoliberalism: the Caribbean Context. Rowman & Littlefield: Oxford. (Especially Chapter 9: Paul Susman ‘Cuban Socialism in Crisis: a neoliberal solution’).

Latin American Perspectives (2002) Special issue on the Cuban Revolution and World Change, 29 (3) (E-journal)

Lightfoot, C. (2001) Havana: a cultural and literary companion. Macmillan: Oxford.

Moses, C (2000) Real life in Castro's Cuba. Sr Books, Delaware.

Reid-Henry, S. (2003) Under the microscope: fieldwork practice and Cuba's biotechnology industry - a reflexive affair? Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24 (2), 184-197.

Scarpaci, J.L., Serge, R. & Coyula, M. (2002) Havana: two faces of the Antillean Metropolis. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina.

Travel Writing

Codrescu, A. (2001) Ay, Cuba!: A Socio-Erotic Journey. Picador, USA.

Iyer, P. (1994) Falling off the map: some lonely places of the world. Black Swan: London.

Jovanovic, T. (1999) Que Bola! A photographic essay. Ocean Press, Melbourne.

Miller, T. (1996) Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba. Basic Books: London.

Smith, S. (1998) The Land of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba. London: Abacus.

Tattlin, I. (2002) Cuba diaries. Bantam, London.

Fiction

Greene, G (2001 (1958)) Our Man in Havana. Vintage Classics: London.

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