From Cuba with Love: Domesticity as Transnational Media and Networking Strategy .

The project explores the role of domesticity in general as a symbolic and material realm fostering transnational networking and communication tactics involving Cuba and the North American peoples. This research looks at homemaking in Cuba as an activity at the center of large communication initiatives revolving around material exchanges, human international travels and domestic media such as video recorders, DVD, ham radio and others. The project will reveal alternative, low-environmental impact, sustainable means of communication established between Cubans in and outside the island, that have also served to reanimate forms of social economy and empowerment in Cuba with American and Quebec partners. The tactics analyzed might serve as templates for future investment strategies in the domain of telecommunications in a changing Cuban market in times of transition.

Faculty Supervisor:

Masha Salazkina

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Partner:

Tulane University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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