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Ramos, Luis Osvaldo. "Tiny Cuba." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1482.
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Howell, Jen. "Bleeding Cuba." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2012. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/122.
Full textOgden, Rebecca Heather. "Understanding Cuban tourism : affect and capital in post-special period Cuba." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/understanding-cuban-tourism-affect-and-capital-in-postspecial-period-cuba(32870a03-38c4-4d8a-9ffe-a5004823d3ea).html.
Full textBrown, Alan. "Using social constructionism, narrative therapy, bibliography, and social psychology in an examination of the Cuban people's polarized aesthetic and historiographical responses to the Cuban revolution." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=165715.
Full textSwanger, Joanna Beth. "Lands of rebellion : Oriente and Escambray encountering Cuban state formation, 1934-1974 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textParcero, Torre Celia María. "La pérdida de la Habana y las reformas ilustradas en Cuba (1760-1773)." Valladolid : Secretario de publicaciones e intercambio científico, Universidad de Valladolid, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39037369q.
Full textLa page de titre porte en plus : "Facultad de filosofía y letras, Departamento de historia moderna, contemporánea y de América" Bibliogr. p. 575-584. Résumés en espagnol et en anglais.
Moret, Erica. "Afro-Cuban religion, diaspora ethnobotany and environmental change in post-Soviet Cuba." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445755.
Full textBecker, Elizabeth Claire. "From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1364315042.
Full textMertl, Filip. "US Embargo Toward Cuba and Its Impact on US and Cuban Economies." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-8201.
Full textWahlström, Sara Charlotte. "Insight Cuba : A Reflection Rapport and Three Features Connected to Cuban Economy." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169760.
Full textSkänkta cyklar får nytt liv på Kuba- Tells the story of a Norweigan aid project in the cuban province Artemisa. What does a bike mean for a family in Cuba? Can everone afford and get one? What do bikes have to do with the cuban economy? Ekonomin, en av de största utmaningarna på Kuba- Tells the story of the informal and formal market in Cuba. Why are so many Cubans traveling abroad for business? How does the Cuban economy effect people’s daily lives and how do they face the challenges presented to them? Utbredd sexturism på Kuba- Tells the story of sex tourism on the island with the help of interviews with sex byers, jineteiras and procurers. What does the relationship between foreigners (Yumas) and cubans look like?
Esqueda, Octavio J. "Theological Higher Education in Cuba: A Case Study of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Theological Seminary." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4331/.
Full textVessely, Pauline. "Modèles de la féminité, ideologie, sacralité et genre à travers le Ballet national de Cuba et la revolutions castriste. Le corps aux prises avec la danse académique et la rhétorique révolutionnaire : pour une analyse pluridisciplinaire de l’intime et du politique." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030191.
Full textThis work has for objective the construction of an analysis between the Human Sciences inorder to put forward to advance the stakes in the construction of the Cuban ballet in the revolutionary rhetoric. The National Ballet of Cuba (nationalised since 1959), as an institution, stages mechanisms and values for the structure of the power in the Castro regime. In this society, moved by an adaptation of the theories Marxists-Leninists, the distance towards the religion let us envisage that the other faiths, the other practices or the other images participate in the production of a shape of crowned which forges the social link and the identity of the Cuban society. The Cuban ballet can be analysed thus as a privileged witness of these peculiarities, in particular in the perspetives reserve for its feminine icons and for the broadcasting of the ideal of the romantic dancer
Poncet, y. de Cárdenas Carolina Barnet Miguel. "El romance en Cuba /." La Habana : Fundación Fernando Ortiz, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39028733v.
Full textOatham, J. L. "Cuba in the American mind." Thesis, Swansea University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638353.
Full textBell, Karen Frances. "Environmental justice : lessons from Cuba." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540906.
Full textWilliams, Diana. "Sustainable tourism development in Cuba." Thesis, University of East London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327708.
Full textConcordia, Maria J. "The Anagó Language of Cuba." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/732.
Full textPopa, Luis. "Cuba: ¿realismo político o realidad?" Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2006. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/47262.
Full textMoreira, de Lima Lillián J. "La sociedad comunitaria de Cuba." La Habana : Editorial Félix Varela, 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/44847198.html.
Full textCasanova, Oliva Carlos Alberto. "La propriété du logement urbain à Cuba : conflits et acteurs de 1989 jusqu'en 2005." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030041.
Full textThis thesis proposes the analysis of the actual urban housing situation in Cuba from a political standpoint. The study focuses on the evolution of ownership and the occupied property regime since the initial social housing control measures and the application of the Urban Reform of 1960 up to the recent 2005 housing control measures. Long before the 1959 revolution, the Cuban population encountered difficulties caused by the precarious nature and lack of available housing. The social housing program applied by the revolutionary government, even though providing assistance for the poorest classes, removed the liberty of private ownership of buildings by converting it into “personal property”. Well-indicated for each period, these changes provoked a series of conflicts within all Cuban social classes. This thesis attempts to contribute to the elaboration of a reflection permitting the reconciliation of the different protagonists of a problem which could result in a larger inner-city social conflict
Garcia, Licet. "Cuba i+real: Singularidades de lo Fantástico y la Ciencia Ficción en la Cuba Contemporánea." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3885.
Full textLópez, Segrera Francisco. "Cuba sans l'URSS (1989-1995) : antécédents, variables, alternatives et scénarios." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA081073.
Full textThis thesis tries to make a critical analysis of the cuban revolution from 1959 to september 1995, specially during the 1989-1995 period, where cuba, without urss looks for another way and - using a multidisciplinary methodology - it shows the variables, alternatives and scenarios that emerges in the new national and international reality. This research, besides the introduction and the conclusions, has six chapters analysing : national and international situation, cuban economy, social sphere, domestic policy, foreign policy and culture. Cuba without urss, beyond its serious crisis, doesn't fall as other socialist countries have done, nor it desintegrates like urss, because its nationalism and its socialism are two concepts firmly linked. Cuba adapts its own model, trying to maintain and develop self-determination, sovereignty, social justice in order to obtain definitely its own independant development
Torres, Sandra Lee. "A Study of Leadership Practices: Comparing Cuban Female Managers in Cuba and in the United States." NSUWorks, 2012. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/113.
Full textTesta, Silvina. "La conquête de l’est : reconfigurations régionales de la santería cubaine (La Havane – Sagua la Grande)." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100163.
Full textA case study of a town in the central region of Cuba, Sagua la Grande, the former stronghold of Santeria, this thesis attaches great importance to the study of a form of afro-cuban religion based on a model different to that already well-known, which has a cult structure similar to Havana. Over time, the capital has become the emblematic town for afro-cuban cults, having been fixed for some as a religious reference point, in so far as an “orthodoxy” is possible in this area. A comparison between afro-cuban cults in Havana and Sagua la Grande permits us to make relative the general character of this cultural model. The analysis of authority figures in both cases makes clear the predominance of the babalao figure in the priesthood. This liturgical role, into which only men are allowed entry, is at the apex of a cultural hierarchy which is determined, in part, by criteria of race. Another important aspect is that the provincial towns are slowly beginning to enlist in the transnational dialogue of afro-cuban practices, indirectly achieving a previously unrecognised prominence. A comparative analysis of cult forms present in Havana and Sagua la Grande will show that it is not a case of two opposing models but rather a multiplicity of cult variations
Albizu-Campos, Espinera Juan-carlos. "Mortalité et survie à Cuba dans les années mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix." Paris 10, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA100060.
Full textAt the end of the 80's, Cuba was among those countries with life expectancies at bitrh over 75 years or close that level while the infant mortality rate was 10 o/oo. This situation was the result of a mortality transition process considered as accelerated and finished. This transition was also singular due to its abrupt beginning and the speed of the changes experimented by mortality. The study of this experience is particularly useful for understanding how the combined od several different factors has been instrumental in the completion of a transition process in the absence of economic development. The recent history of Cuba also shows that the progress of life expectancy without economic development has its limits and the inversion of trends is possible. But, what is remarkable in Cuban case is the persistence of a relatively important level of incidence of parasitic and infections illnesses related to basic deficiencies we thought already controlled. .
Bouffartigue, Sylvie Estrade Paul. "Le Roman des guerres de l'indépendance de Cuba 1898-1951 /." Saint-Denis : Université de Paris VIII, 2007. http://www.bu.univ-paris8.fr/web/collections/theses/bouffartigue_sylvie.pdf.
Full textSantos, de Lima Edinaldo Aparecido. "Preparar, apontar, foto! : A construção da imagem fotográfica dos camponeses cubanos nos periódicos Revolución e Campo de Revolución (1959-1961) /." Assis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/158300.
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Banca: José Luis Bendicho Beired
Resumo: Gestado nas matas da Sierra Maestra, em meio aos conflitos entre rebeldes e a ditadura de Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958), o jornal Revolución dirigido por Carlos Franqui cumpria o papel de divulgar as conquistas e os ideais dos insurgentes. Com o triunfo da Revolução em 1959, o periódico deixou a clandestinidade e tornou-se um influente veículo de informação do período. Nele trabalharam vários profissionais entre os quais, fotógrafos cujos frutos de suas produções cooperaram na eternização da Revolução como um dos eventos significativos do século XX. Depois dessa virada histórica, os holofotes dos principais meios de comunicação do mundo passaram a dedicar maior atenção aos passos que seriam dados por aquele país. Logo nos primeiros meses, o jovem governo revolucionário encetou uma série de reformas em vários âmbitos da sociedade, sobretudo em regiões rurais onde predominaram durante décadas a pobreza e a ausência de serviços básicos como educação e saúde. Diante das lentes dos fotógrafos de Revolución, os camponeses cubanos passaram a ter suas condições de vida e seus rostos propagados por toda a Ilha, ao passo em que um imaginário sobre si era construído no intuito de sensibilizar, conscientizar e mobilizar a sociedade, principalmente dos centros urbanos, a participarem do processo de mudanças sociopolíticas do país. Porém, os resultados obtidos a partir da meticulosa análise quantitativa e qualitativa do montante de fotografias presentes tanto no jornal quanto no seu suplemento Campo de Revolución, organizadas e catalogadas mostraram que a moldagem desse imaginário não fora unívoca ou rígida, pois a realidade histórica vivida intensamente pelos cubanos nos primeiros três anos tornou-a flexível. Além disso, a metodologia empregada na análise das fotografias permitiu-nos discutir outros assuntos inerentes ao universo rural cubano
Abstract: Raised in the forests of the Sierra Maestra, amid conflicts between rebels and the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958), the newspaper Revolución led by Carlos Franqui played the role of publicizing the achievements and ideals of the insurgents. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, the newspaper left the clandestine and became an influential vehicle of information of the period. In it worked several professionals among whom, photographers whose fruits of their productions cooperated in the eternalization of the Revolution like one of the significant events of century XX. After this historic turnaround, the spotlight of the world's mainstream media began to pay more attention to the steps that would be taken by that country. In the early months, the young revolutionary government embarked on a series of reforms in various areas of society, particularly in rural areas where poverty and lack of basic services such as education and health prevailed for decades. Faced with the lenses of the photographers of Revolución, the Cuban peasants began to have their living conditions and their faces propagated throughout the Island, while an imaginary about themselves was built in order to raise awareness, raise awareness and mobilize society, especially the urban centers to participate in the process of socio-political changes in the country. However, the results obtained from the meticulous quantitative and qualitative analysis of the amount of photographs present in both the newspaper and its Campo de Revolución supplement, organized and cataloged, showed that the molding of this imagery was not unequivocal or rigid, since the historical reality lived intensely by Cubans in the first three years made it flexible. In addition, the methodology used in the analysis of the photographs allowed us to discuss other subjects inherent to the Cuban rural universe
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Cerejido, Elizabeth. "Grey Area: Contextualizing Cuban Photography of the 1970s." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/222.
Full textHill, Helena. "Derechos Humanos en Cuba : La promoción y protección de los Derechos Humanos en la Cuba socialista." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8249.
Full textEl debate general a nivel internacional considera a Cuba un país, donde los derechos humanos sufren severas restricciones. Cuba se defiende, diciendo que en el país, todos los derechos humanos están bajo protección estatal. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo investigar esta contradicción y se pregunta como los Derechos Humanos adoptados por las Naciones Unidas (ONU) se ven articulados e interpretados en la Cuba post-revolucionaria. Para entender las razones a este discurso, se intenta mirar algunos puntos teóricos sobre los derechos humanos en general y tener en cuenta el desarrollo de la sociedad cubana y sus particularidades después de la Revolución en 1959. También se investigan los Informes elaborados por la ONU sobre los derechos humanos en Cuba y sus recomendaciones.
Weideman, Lisa. "Investigating the Cuban Revolución Agricola as a model for the post-'peak oil' age." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/4998.
Full textSilva, Júnior José Antonio Ferreira da 1987. "Retórica americana : temas e ideias político-culturais em Casa de las Américas (1965-1976)." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279654.
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Resumo: Este trabalho procura levantar e mapear discussões e debates político-culturais da segunda metade do século XX em Cuba, nas primeiras décadas da Revolução Cubana. A difusão de periódicos e impressos contribuiu para uma circulação diferenciada de ideias e discursos, envolvendo sujeitos históricos em diferentes dinâmicas entre o político e o cultural. Os intelectuais encontraram nesse tipo de meio de comunicação um espaço de expressão e engajamento com o processo revolucionário. A revista cubana Casa de las Américas se constituiu como centro de uma rede intelectual, a partir da qual se construiu e se difundiu um discurso revolucionário. Nossa proposta é partir desta revista, como objeto e fonte histórica, para aproximarmo-nos das ideias e noções conformadas entre intelectuais relacionados com o imaginário esquerdista da América Latina nos anos 1960 e 1970. Um dos nossos temas principais é a conformação de discursos identitários na revista. Defendemos que as identidades construídas discursivamente por Casa fazem parte da concepção que a própria revista tinha sobre sua atuação no processo revolucionário. Também, a questão em torno do papel do letrado é aqui analisada por nós. A publicação deu suporte para a formação de um discurso que valorizou e favoreceu uma estética e uma concepção de intelectual específicas para cumprir o que era visto como revolucionário. Devido à importância e à vigência que Casa estabelece para José Martí (1853-1895), as formas de discussão e apropriação da vida e obra deste letrado cubano figuram também em nossa argumentação, destacando mecanismos discursivos e formas de apropriação da história de Cuba. Dessa forma, passando por alguns temas político-culturais da revista, pretendemos abordar a história da esquerda latino-americana e da conformação de seu imaginário
Abstract: This work discusses and analyses the political and cultural debates during the first decades of the Cuban Revolution in the second half of the 20th century. In this context the dissemination of printed journals had contributed for the exchange of ideas and discourses, allowing the historical subjects to be immersed in a variety of political and cultural dynamics. Intellectuals found a space for expression and engagement with the revolutionary process in this type of media. The Cuban cultural journal Casa de las Américas was the center of an intellectual network from which the revolutionary discourse was built and spread. With the analysis of this journal we intend to get closer to the ideas and concepts that were being created and used by the Latin American leftist intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. One of our main themes is the conformation of identity discourses in the journal Casa de las Américas. The importance of the figure of the intellectual is another focused subject. We argue that the identities constructed discursively by this cultural journal are part of the design that the magazine itself had on its performance in the revolutionary process. The publication gave support to the formation of a discourse that valued and promoted a specific aesthetic and conception of intellectual which would fulfill what was seen as revolutionary. The important role that was reserved for José Martí (1853-1895) in Casa justifies our analysis of how his life and works were discussed and presented in the journal, emphasizing the discursive mechanisms and the different forms of appropriation of Cuban history. Thus, with the analysis of some political and cultural themes from Casa we intend to study the history of Latin-American left and the conformation of its imaginary
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Anderson, Brian Keith. "Afro-Cuban percussion, its roots and role in popular Cuban music." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32617.
Full textDepartment of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Craig B. Parker
This Master’s Report will address questions about Afro-Cuban music, focusing on Afro-Cuban percussion and music in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The first two chapters will address congas and timbales, which are two Afro-Cuban percussion instruments at the center of Cuban culture and music. The next three chapters will address danzón, rumba, and son. These chapters will provide analysis into the influences that shaped the music as well as analysis of the music itself. Chapter 6 of this report addresses Cuba’s impact on culture outside Cuba, relating but not limited to music, with emphasis on the 1930s into the beginning of World War II. Throughout this report videos have been created to help explain topics of Afro-Cuban music to readers in a more interactive way. The purpose of these videos is to demonstrate how the instruments sound as well as what the instruments look like, how notation included in the report is realized, and generally to make the page come to life in ways that technology today now allows.
Soucy, Dominique. "La pensée maçonnico-libérale à Cuba (1811-1902) : expression, diffusion et appropriation nationale." Paris 8, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA082296.
Full textOn 20 May 1902, the first Cuban Republic was established after a century-long search for identity. Masonry marked this process of nation affirmation through an ethical discourse that responded to the intellectual expectations of society and found its secular corollary in liberal thinking. It participated with this latter in the definition, diffusion and progressive expression of a national liberal-Masonic thinking, adapted to the social reality in Cuba and of which the Constitution of 1901 was the institutional consecration
Hensley, Shannon Shanelle. "The embodiment of rumba in Cuba." Thesis, Open University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500604.
Full textGonzález, Héctor Manuel. "Conciencia socialista and education in Cuba." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22710.pdf.
Full textEscalona, Jiménez Manuel. "Cuba : el gran cuartel ; (1810 - 1840) /." Madrid : Centro de Publ., Ministerio de Defensa, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/484018906.pdf.
Full textGraham, Tracey E. "Jamaican migration to Cuba, 1912--1940." Thesis, The University of Chicago, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557406.
Full textThis study helps to broaden a growing body of literature by examining the growth of an urban Jamaican community in the southeastern port of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
Background: When the British colony of Jamaica abolished slavery in 1838, the upper classes attempted to tie free workers to sugar plantations; ex–slaves attempted to move away from the estates as soon as possible. Despite an increase in internal migration after abolition, the majority of the black population remained in rural areas, and dedicated their labor to the land. The Jamaican elite successfully argued for the introduction of contract laborers from Asia as a replacement for the slavery system. It brought the planters some limited economic success as export crops—particularly sugar—had the chance to rebound, but planters used immigrants to drive down wages. Increasing population pressure on the land, a series of natural disasters, few economic opportunities, and ineligibility for political participation prompted Jamaicans to look outside of their homeland for socioeconomic improvement by the late 1800s. Travelers emigrated in significant numbers to Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua with the hope of earning higher wages, sending remittances to family members, and returning home with enough money to live independently. As work on the Panama Canal ended by the 1910s, Jamaicans turned their sights back to the Caribbean. During the second half of the 19th century, Cuba was one of Spain's two remaining Caribbean colonies despite attempting several wars of independence. At the end of the final effort in 1898, the United States intervened against the metropolis; the two powers reached an agreement giving possession of Cuba to the US, who would help to establish political order and assist the islanders in ruling themselves. US investment in Cuban industry, especially in sugar, allowed foreigners to purchase enormous tracts of land and to influence the restructuring of the island's political, social, and economic landscape. The seasonal sugar cane harvest attracted foreign workers from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean seeking better wages than what they could find at home; between 1912 and 1920, thousands of British West Indians traveled to Cuba to labor in the agricultural industry or to occupy niches in the service industry.
However, Cubans scrutinized and discriminated against them for being black, for being foreign, for driving down wages, or some combination thereof. Though Cubans claimed to live in a color-blind society, racial discrimination persisted and the white elite supported a policy of “whitening” the island through selective immigration from Spain and miscegenation; these racial and cultural prejudices were particularly divisive given that a significant percentage of Cubans were of African descent. Furthermore, the general population was frustrated by the lack of Cuban sovereignty and saw foreign workers as complicit in the US intervention. As a result, calls for nationalism tended to veer into xenophobia and racism during economic downturns in the early 1920s and 1930s.
Methods/Sources: Due to limited access to archival sources in Cuba, the bulk of the data is from the British National Archives: the consular reports summarized political and social upheaval in Cuba, collected publications from the Cuban government, and gave a perspective of the migration from the viewpoint of the British government. Similar information came from the U.S. National Archives at College Park, Maryland. The provincial archive of Santiago de Cuba provided information on migrant activities: marriage and citizenship documents; and social, cultural, and political organizations. It also yielded the Cuban government's responses to West Indian immigration. Correspondence between colonial officials and international organizations came from the Jamaican National Archives; the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, held interviews of Jamaicans who lived during the period under study. Cuban and Jamaican newspaper reports detailed economic and political conditions in the two islands from journalists' investigations, letters from migrants, and governmental decrees.
Findings: I relate how different groups in Cuba reacted to Jamaican migration: the support for and against it, how this support changed over time, and how it differed by geography. I also attempt to give a fuller description of who these migrants were. I discuss their relationships with other West Indians and Cubans, their marriages, and the paths that they took to Cuban citizenship. How gender influenced and differentiated Jamaicans' experiences when they went abroad—how they were perceived and treated, and how they fared—receives special attention.
The work concludes by examining the reaction of the British officials who represented British West Indians in Cuba. It also puts the migration into a broader context by examining black British subjects who traveled to other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean during this era. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Addison, Jason Lawrence. "Real estate investment opportunities in Cuba." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62932.
Full textMontaner, Carlos Alberto. "Cuba: Cómo contribuir a su democratización." IUS ET VERITAS, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/123658.
Full textTouze, Vincent. "La crise des missiles de Cuba." Aix-Marseille 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX32078.
Full textThe study's aim is to analyse decisions in the light of international relations (IR) theories. The introduction and theorical part define the method, that of the confrontation with three models and that of the historian. The study's takes the side of the rational-realist model. Too often one ignores that it puts the emphasis on diplomacy, bounded rationality and psychological factors and is anchored in a historical approach. Graham Allison's organizational models are contested as being under-productive. The doctrine of the organizations was not oriented that way and did not reject rationality; its authors were also the ones of the bounded rationaloity concept. The ideal-psychological model does not have the innovative character to which it presents, despite the constructivism and realism already integrates this model to a large extent. In the second part the decision to install the missiles is market by power politics resulting from historical factors. The American reaction was predicted by a tactic that failed due to faulty leadership. The American decision for a nuclear ultimatum is so explained in the third part as a power politics decision, in a regional and cold-war double logic and the play of an organization inclined towards such a policy. The settlement of the crisis (fourth part) is governed by the power relationships installed from the very start of the crisis, resulting from pre-existing tendencies and tactical positions influenced by social opinion. The conclusion carries a warning against the reification of archive material and the illusion of finding reality in details that only reproduce psychological meanderings
Henry, Drew A. "Democracy in a Post-Castro Cuba /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Dec%5FHenry.pdf.
Full textGeoffray, Marie Laure. "Culture, politique et contestation à Cuba (1989-2009) : une sociologie politique des modes non conventionnels d'action collective en contexte autoritaire." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2010. http://buadistant.univ-angers.fr/login?url=https://www.dalloz-bibliotheque.fr/pvurl.php?r=http%3A%2F%2Fdallozbndpro-pvgpsla.dalloz-bibliotheque.fr%2Ffr%2Fpvpage2.asp%3Fpuc%3D5442%26nu%3D110.
Full textThis dissertation is based on eleven months of fieldwork in Cuba. Its objective is twofold. First, understand how contentious dynamics have emerged and endured through time without undergoing severe repression, like dissident movements. Secondly, grasp what the existence of this tolerated contention tells us about the way power is wielded in such a context. Contentious practices are here defined as intentional, collective and conflictive. This study focuses on the relationships between contentious movements and State authorities, in order to understand the logics of their interactions. Elaborating on this, this dissertation shows that contentious practices are partly tolerated by the authorities because they are neither oppositional nor directly political. They are linked up, though in a critical and sometimes subversive way, to the norms of the revolutionary socialization, on which are based the legitimate frameworks for perception of reality. Contentious movements are situated at the margins of the cultural field, thanks to the creation of a hybrid repertoire: between collective action and cultural creation. That ambiguity allows them to negotiate space for action, according to the levels of government. Authorities grant them some space because that this allows for the regulation and containment of contention, through the use of a specific mode of coercion, which is based on uncertainty and arbitrariness. This study also brings to light the plasticity of the Cuban regime and invites us, beyond that specific case, to substitute analyses in terms of erosion of governing capacity for analyses of the modes of adaptation and transformation of authoritarian regimes
Renault, Agnès. "La communauté françaises de Santiago de Cuba entre 1791 et 1825." Le Havre, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007LEHA0007.
Full textSince 1791, French colonists from Saint Domingue took refuge in Cuba, especially in Santiago, to avoid the civil wars of French and Haitian revolutions. They were ejected in 1809 because of the war between French and Spain, but some of them choosed to come back some years later, followed by some other Frenchs coming sometime directly from metropolitan France. These migratory movements were essential for the central area of Cuba. This thesis shows how these refugees were able to straighten up and have a leader activity in the economic decelipment of their "terre d'acceuil / new land". Their success is due to the ability to rebuild a community where diversity exists but with the sharing feeling to be French. The refugees group remakes all the specificities of the Saint-Domingue colonial society. Colonists before everything, they choose the new world, and the French migratory movement in Santiago de Cuba is an announcement of the french colonization during the XIXth Century
Scherer, Marie-Catherine. "L' individu et le Nous dans le cinéma cubain (ICAIC 1960-2002) : mise en dialogue des discours fictionnels, personnels et officiels." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0547.
Full textThis research postulates that cinematographic expression, and especially fiction films, constitutes a highly interesting field of research, since it allows for discovery and analysis of aspects of the imagination regarding the society, its history and the daily life of its people. Regarding the cuban context, the question of the dynamic representation of the relationship between the individual and the "We" (the collectif entity of reference) appears to be crucial. According to revolutionary ideology, each individual was called upon to engage actively in the construction of a new society that would finally give everyone the opportunity to be fulfilled both individually and collectively. However, the profund national and international changes occuring at the beginning of the 1990s, generating a social and economic crisis that had never seen before, modified the individual's relationship with the surrounding society. Through the analysis of over forty fiction films and their connection with various personal, official and theoretical discourses, this survey examines how the relationship between the individual and the We has been represented since the 1960s and especially since the 1990s. What references - ideological, cultural, affective - can and must the sense of belonging to the We rely on in order to continue making sense? How is the We being imagined so as to answer today's demand to include, in an egalitarian way, the diversity of individuals?
Villaça, Mariana Martins. "O Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) e a política cultural em Cuba (1959-1991)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-06112006-174750/.
Full textThis work analyzes the history of the Cuban Institute for Art and Film Production (ICAIC) ? the first cultural organization created after the Cuban Revolution ? and its role in cultural policy between 1959 and 1991. Through the analysis of documents on cultural policy, the magazine Cine Cubano, in addition to testimonies, critiques and a set of films specifically relevant to the issues and dilemmas of Cuban intellectuals, the thesis delves into the tensions between official cultural policy, the ICAIC, and film makers? projects. Various Latin American and European film makers were involved with the institute, and it served as a forum for debate, political discussions and varied polemics related to film and aesthetic tendencies, including Socialist Realism and New Wave. The thesis proposes that ICAIC constituted a privileged institution in the Cuban cultural environment because ? through the action of film makers and the mediation of the Institute?s leadership ? it attained relative autonomy with respect to mechanisms of government control. This autonomy was unsettled, at different points, by factors such as state restructuring, economic failure and the entrenchment of authoritarianism in Cuba, especially from the 1970s onward. Still, the institute adapted to the demands of government policy through a political dynamic that alternated adhesion and resistance to official cultural policy, making possible the production of various films that were ambiguous and critical of the regime during that period.
García, Inés. "Le rôle des pratiques associatives culturelles dans la construction et la diffusion d'une culture patriotique cubaine à la Havane (1868-1898)." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070046.
Full textCuban history specialists disagree about the process of emancipation of the Spanish colony. Cuban revolutionary historiography denies any role to the cultural and political elites of Havana in this process of independence by valuing only the action of the exiled separatists, Other historians contend that these intellectual elites, for the greater part separatists, widely contributed to the formation of the Cuban nation. An approach based on the study of cultural associative sociability in Havana and on the prosopographique analysis of historic actors between 1868 and 1898 leads both to questioning the existence of a Cuban nation at the time of the declaration of independence and to better understanding the interracial conflicts which burst in the following years. This approach demonstrates that cultural associative sociability was one of the key ways to build and spread a Cuban patriotic culture which marginalized the coloured population in the development of the feeling of belonging to a Cuban community. Cultural associative practices also contributed to promote simultaneously attachment to the Cuban homeland and disaffection for the Spanish mother country. The intellectual and political elites thus amply aroused the profound dissatisfaction and the patriotism which, in 1895, mobilized a wide part of the population in favour of independence
Mermoud-Plaza, Diego Alejandro. "Approche sensorielle des développements urbains de la Baie de La Havane, entre planification dirigée et facteurs exogènes." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA080014.
Full textPlanning the territory is a complex exercise due to the lack of knowledge of the future. The institutional actors in charge of planning must therefore consider and weigh a multiplicity of factors, internal and external to the territory. The choices made depend on the interpretation of the issues and the objectives to be achieved. The understanding of the context varies according to the representations and affects that pre-exist within the institutions.This work carried out in Cuba focuses on the territory of Havana Bay. The Cuban politico-economic structure, centralized and without counter-power, could allow a strong coherence between the decisions taken in a constrained international environment and the local context of the territory planning. However, it must be noted that there may be discrepancies between the institutions in charge of planning. These divergences, both in the definition of the ideal to be achieved and the means to achieve it, may result in proposals distancing from one to another.In order to understand the actors' readings of the territory as well as their affects, we used a classical methodology, enriched with 360° animated images projected in a virtual reality helmet, and completed by the realization of mental maps. Thus, it was observed that certain spaces generate important socio-spatial segregations, while being counter-intuitively very appreciated by the local populations. The results obtained accordingly show significant contrasts between what classical geography tells us as well the affects felt by the actors that were interviewed
La planificación del territorio es una actividad compleja debido al desconocimiento del futuro. Por tanto, los actores institucionales encargados de la planificación deben considerar y sopesar una multiplicidad de factores, tanto internos como externos al territorio. Los arbitrajes que se toman dependen de la interpretación de los temas específicos y de los objetivos que se quieren alcanzar. La lectura del contexto varía según las representaciones y los afectos preexistentes en el seno de las instituciones.Este trabajo realizado en Cuba se concentra en el territorio de la Bahía de La Habana. La estructura política y económica centralizada de Cuba, sin contrapoder, podría permitir una fuerte coherencia entre las decisiones tomadas en un entorno internacional restringido y el contexto local de la ordenación del territorio. Sin embargo, hay que tener en cuenta que puede haber discrepancias entre las instituciones encargadas de la planificación. Estas divergencias, tanto en la definición del ideal a alcanzar como en los medios para lograrlo, pueden dar lugar a propuestas distantes entre sí.Para comprender las lecturas del territorio por parte de los actores, así como sus afectos, utilizamos una metodología clásica, enriquecida con imágenes animadas de 360° proyectadas en un casco de realidad virtual, y completada con la creación de mapas mentales. Así, se observó que ciertos espacios generan importantes segregaciones socio-espaciales, al tiempo que son contra-intuitivamente muy apreciados por las poblaciones locales. Los resultados obtenidos muestran así importantes contrastes entre lo que nos dice la geografía clásica y los afectos que sienten los actores entrevistados
Marques, Rickley Leandro. "A condição Mariel : memórias subterrâneas da experiência revolucionária cubana (1959-1990)." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2009. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/4253.
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No presente trabalho, investigamos o grupo de intelectuais e artistas exilados cubanos autodenominados Geração Mariel, que emigrou de Cuba para os Estados Unidos da América em 1980 pelo porto de Mariel. Por meio da análise de documentos, depoimentos, escritos e da literatura produzida pelo grupo, abordamos o projeto identitário da Geração Mariel. Com o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, percebemos que o grupo travava uma batalha por suas memórias na ilha. Nas narrativas da Geração Mariel emergem os atritos causados pela proposta revolucionária cubana de transformar a sua nova geração (a juventude) no homem novo. Este era um dos principais objetivos da revolução em seus primeiros anos. Entendemos, também que a Geração Mariel foi antes de tudo uma parcela da juventude cubana, sobretudo havaneira, que não quis ou não pôde se estabelecer na nova configuração social em curso e que, por meio de uma nova ética moral, procurava moldar os futuros revolucionários da ilha. Na primeira parte deste trabalho, procuramos compreender os pressupostos revolucionários para a formação de uma nova sociedade cubana e, sobretudo, para a educação de sua juventude. Na segunda parte, analisamos como a migração Mariel foi representada: seja pela direção política do governo cubano, seja na imprensa do país. A representação feita nos Estados Unidos da América, principalmente pela maioria da comunidade cubana de Miami, também foi analisada. Por fim, observamos as representações de alguns integrantes da Geração Mariel que, a nosso ver, travaram uma batalha, por meio de suas narrativas e memórias, na luta pelo seu reconhecimento social. O combate dos integrantes do grupo com seus compatriotas pela justificativa de suas vidas é o que, em alguns momentos, demarca as diferenças de trajetória, experiências e perspectivas em relação ao futuro da ilha. A condição de outsiders em Cuba e no exílio acabou levandoos a se definir como uma nova representação da cubanidade: a Geração Mariel. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
In the present work we investigated the group of intellectuals and artists exiled from Cuba, self-called Mariel Generation, which emigrated from Cuba to the United States of America in 1980 through the port of Mariel. After analyzing documents, statements, written material in general, and literature produced by the own group, we approached the identity project of the Mariel Generation. During the research we realized that the group struggled for their memory on the island. The dissentions caused by the Cuban revolutionary proposal to transform its new generation (youth) into the new man emerged from the narratives of the Mariel Generation. This was one of the main objectives of the revolution in the first years. We also understood that the Mariel Generation was, above all, a part of the Cuban young generation, mainly from Havana, which did not want or could not establish themselves within the new ongoing social configuration and that, through the means of a new moral ethics, looked for molding the future rebels on the island. In the first part of this study, we tried to understand the revolutionary principles aiming to constitute a new Cuban society and, moreover, to educate their youngsters. In the second part, we analyzed how the Mariel migration was represented in the perspective of both the Cuban political leadership and the Cuban media. The representation carried out in the United States of America, principally by most members of the Cuban community in Miami, was analyzed as well. Finally, we observed the representation of some individuals of the Mariel Generation, who, as far as we are concerned, fought through their narratives and memories to achieve their social recognition. In some moments, the battle the members of this group had to fight against their fellow country people to justify their lives distinguishes the differences in trajectory, experience, and perspective on the future of the island. The fact of being outsiders both in Cuba and in the exile made them define themselves as a new representation of Cuban identity: the Mariel Generation.
Andujar, Roberto C. "Informational element of power : the role of public diplomacy in United States-Cuba policy implementation /." Carlisle Barracks, Pa. : U.S. Army War College, 2005. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA432368.
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Wentworth, Christina. "U.S.-Cuba Non-Relations: An Analysis of the Embargo and the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3025.
Full textSince Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba over fifty years ago, U.S.-Cuban relations have been defined by mutual hostility. As the hegemon of the Western Hemisphere, the United States has labored to combat this repressive force that threatens democracy only ninety miles from its shores. In this paper, I analyze the embargo against Cuba and the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program, both of which are U.S. government initiatives intended to weaken the Cuban government. I find that neither of these initiatives has been effective and that the United States’ failure to reevaluate longstanding and unsuccessful policies is detrimental to the populations they are intended to serve. In order to create more effective programs, the United States government must consider human rights in its decisions, continuously follow through with and reevaluate its policies, and ensure that initiatives are in the best interest of all parties involved
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: International Studies Honors Program
Discipline: International Studies