2015/16 Janey Annual Workshop: Gabriel Vignoli
Wednesday November 4 | 6pm, 80 5th Ave, 5th Fl, Room 529
Plebeian Citizenship in Question: A Tale from La Habana, by Gabriel Vignoli
Is there a difference between poverty and marginality? In Cuba, the most accredited reading is that poverty is marked by low income and marginality by structural violence and social exclusion and self-exclusion. Fieldwork conducted in Miraflores 250, a barrio marginal in Havana’s outskirts, tries to provide a different answer based on the notion of illegibility—understood not as a survivalist strategy but rather as an active form of citizenship performed through the cracks of the law.
Presenter: Gabriel Vignoli, Lecturer in the Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, Faculty Coordinator for the Cuba International Field Program. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in the spring of 2014. His work focuses on Havana’s black market.
Discussant: Professor Ileana DĂaz Fernández, Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana. Dr. DĂaz Fernández has a PhD in Economic Sciences and has done additional studies at Harvard, McGill, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and UNDP. She has also been a visiting professor in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, La Sapienza of Italy and Greenwich in England. She has published over 100 books and articles, three of which have received awards from the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. Dr. DĂaz Fernández’ areas of expertise include business administration, marketing, competitiveness, and innovation. Her current research focuses on the relation between enterprises and economic and social development, including the process of decision making about innovation within businesses. She is a member of the Scientific Council of University of Havana. Dr. DĂaz Fernández is currently in residence at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University as an Adjunct Research Scholar.
NB Gabriel will also briefly talk about the possibility for NSSR and non-NSSR graduate students interested in pursuing research in Cuba, of partaking in the Cuba International Field Program—which will run from June 1st to July 31st 2016 in Havana, Cuba. The program has an academic and a practical side, and could be a unique opportunity for graduate students interested in pursuing advanced research in Cuba to work and establish relations with Cuban faculty.
See link: http://ifp.milanoschool.org/ifp-archives/portfolio/cuba