A Modest Revolution: Diverse Environmental Community Practices in Cuba
Adopting an environmental anthropology approach, this article analyzes the diverse environmental practices in the community of Las Canas, a diversity that is based on both the population’s heterogeneity and the country’s revolutionary context. The transformations that have occurred in fishing, tourism and natural resource conservation have generated new practices and perceptions, and provided opportunities for a better quality of life. Affected by structural economic and political changes, this diversity has given rise to a constant redefinition of the inhabitants’ relationship with the environment, while allowing them to recreate, on a human scale, their own revolution.