Playing the State: Imagining Youth in Cuban Baseball
dc.contributor.advisor | Starn, Orin | |
dc.contributor.author | Daley, Christopher | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-14T15:08:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-13T08:17:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.department | Cultural Anthropology | |
dc.description.abstract | My research lies at the intersections of youth and their imaginaries in late socialist Cuba. Through ethnographic and historical research, I explore how Cuban teenagers and young adults make sense of their place in a changing world. My dissertation asks, what does the experience of young baseball players tells us about the way that socialism works and how it is experienced in Cuba today? I argue that baseball in Cuba reflects the distinctive trajectory of this island nation that remains one of the world’s last socialist states. I detail how the amateur athlete can be seen as an on-going experiment in the state’s attempt to create new subjectivities, which are channeled through an equally new system of ethical values based on sacrifice, care, and anti-colonial nationalism. But while players are seen to embody socialist values, I argue that baseball creates a range of meanings and possibilities for players that exceeds the State’s ability to direct or control. | |
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dc.subject | Cultural anthropology | |
dc.subject | Cuba | |
dc.subject | Political-Economy | |
dc.subject | Socialism | |
dc.subject | Sports | |
dc.subject | Technology | |
dc.subject | Youth | |
dc.title | Playing the State: Imagining Youth in Cuban Baseball | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
duke.embargo.months | 23.934246575342463 |