CARE AND AGENCY OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBA. International learning, local experiences and ethical challenges.
This book, an initiative of the Observatory on Aging, Care and Rights (Cuido60), is based on the assumption that, in a context of structural crisis, agency also constitutes the possibility, associated with reflective awareness, of producing a transformation in a context of multiple social constrictions, as is the Cuban case. The authors ask how to propose sustainable strategies to cooperate with civil society and support it in the development of local initiatives and projects that address the challenges of demographic aging in an environment of mass exodus, chronic lack of material and human resources, increasing poverty and social inequality, and criminalization of activism, including social activism.
This book is a look that gathers some experiences and knowledge accumulated in Cuban civil society regarding the challenges that arise in the provision of aid and social assistance services, in the design and implementation of independent social projects; as well as the visions, approaches and methodologies of social intervention that are being used. The authors address how the responsibility for care is being redistributed, as well as the disputes and tensions generated between different national and transnational actors. This analysis of Cuba is accompanied by lessons and lessons learned from international experiences, both in the region and in the United States and Europe.
