Books by Adrian Hearn
In Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes that a new paradigm of socio-economic development ... more In Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes that a new paradigm of socio-economic development is gaining importance for Cuba and Mexico. Despite their contrasting political ideologies, both countries must build new forms of trust among the state, society, and resident Chinese diaspora communities if they are to harness the potentials of China’s rise. Combining political and economic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, Hearn analyzes Cuba's and Mexico's historical relations with China, and highlights how Chinese diaspora communities are now deepening these ties. Theorizing trust as an alternative to existing models of exchange—which are failing to navigate the world's shifting economic currents—Hearn shows how Cuba and Mexico can reformulate the balance of power between state, market, and society. A new paradigm of domestic development and foreign engagement based on trust is becoming critical for Cuba, Mexico, and other countries seeking to benefit from China’s growing economic power and social influence.
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When Cuba’s centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 19... more When Cuba’s centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. They began to work openly with state institutions on projects such as the promotion of Afro-Cuban heritage to encourage tourism, and community welfare initiatives to confront drug use, prostitution, and housing decay. In this rich ethnography, the anthropologist Adrian H. Hearn provides a detailed, on-the-ground analysis of how the Cuban state and local religious groups collaborate on community development projects and work with the many foreign development agencies operating in Cuba. Hearn argues that the growing number of collaborations between state and non-state actors has begun to consolidate the foundations of a civil society in Cuba.
While conducting research, Hearn lived for one year each in two Santería temple-houses: one located in Old Havana and the other in Santiago de Cuba. During those stays he conducted numerous interviews: with the historian of Havana and the conservationist of Santiago de Cuba (officials roughly equivalent to mayors in the United States), acclaimed writers, influential leaders of Afro-Cuban religions, and many citizens involved in community development initiatives. Hearn draws on those interviews, his participant observation in the temple-houses, case studies, and archival research to convey the daily life experiences and motivations of religious practitioners, development workers, and politicians. Using the concept of social capital, he explains the state’s desire to incorporate tightly knit religious groups into its community development projects, and he illuminates a fundamental challenge facing Cuba’s religious communities: how to maintain their spiritual integrity and internal solidarity while participating in state-directed projects.
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This comprehensive assessment of transpacific economic integration explores the many ways that ne... more This comprehensive assessment of transpacific economic integration explores the many ways that new approaches to multilateral cooperation, and notably the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), are transforming the regional landscape.
Reflecting diverse views on the merits of new and wide-ranging agreements, the authors consider: To what extent will the TPP facilitate the US "pivot" to Asia at a time when China, not a TPP member, is attempting to shape regional economic dynamics? Will the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, strongly backed by China, prove complementary or antagonistic to the TPP? How can countries throughout Latin America and Asia best secure benefits from emerging accords? As they engage with these and related issues/debates, they also provide informed assessments of the political and economic significance of the new agreements for the future of transpacific integration.
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https://www.rienner.com/title/The_Changing_Currents_of_Transpacific_Integration
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What inroads is China making in Latin America? In China Engages Latin America, experts from three... more What inroads is China making in Latin America? In China Engages Latin America, experts from three continents provide local answers to this global question.
The authors explore the multiple motivations driving the establishment of new Sino–Latin American linkages, the nature of those linkages, and the reactions that they have generated. They also examine how China–Latin America relations have developed over more than two hundred years. The result is a work that deals with key issues of broad regional relevance, as well as country-specific political, economic, and cultural concerns.
Available from Lynne Rienner publishers:
https://www.rienner.com/title/China_Engages_Latin_America_Tracing_the_Trajectory
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Creative works by Adrian Hearn
Recent releases from Suns of Mercury, featuring artists from Latin America, China, and Australia.... more Recent releases from Suns of Mercury, featuring artists from Latin America, China, and Australia. Scan the QR code or click here:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6IPZDdPX2zCqU6t5TI0Vfd
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The Yoruba Heritage virtual tour showcases West African cultural traditions and their influences ... more The Yoruba Heritage virtual tour showcases West African cultural traditions and their influences in Latin America and Australia. The tour explores talking drums, beadwork, wedding ceremonies, and tribal face marks in Nigeria and the international Yoruba diaspora. Viewers can learn about these traditions in 360-degree photos that include clickable icons that open information windows and interviews. The project is funded by a Community Engagement Grant from the University of Melbourne Social Equity Institute with support from the Faculty of Arts. SOLL Prof. Adrian Hearn developed the idea in partnership with the Yoruba Heritage and Cultural Association of Victoria, community arts organisation Suns of Mercury, and Harmonic Whale Studio. The purpose running through this collaboration is to support more positive and genuine public narratives about African cultures, including among young African Australians themselves.
Embark here: www.sunsofmercury.com/yoruba
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In 2019 I visited sacred sites with community elders in Mexico, Cuba, and Australia. This intera... more In 2019 I visited sacred sites with community elders in Mexico, Cuba, and Australia. This interactive 360 film explores their responses to my question “What does nature mean to you?” Their explanations reveal an illuminating vision: nature is not a resource to be extracted but a living entity to engage in a relationship. Nature is not a “what” but a “who.” The film features a Mayan sacred cenote lake and reserve in Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, a medicinal forest in Havana, and the landscape of Western Australia as it is sculpted by the Aboriginal Dreamtime serpent Beemarra. Interactive buttons within these scenes trigger interviews with elders and specialists, maps, and texts about their histories and cultures. View the film here:
www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/who-is-nature
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Cuba's unique culture derives from a blend of European, Asian, and African influences. Ashé is a ... more Cuba's unique culture derives from a blend of European, Asian, and African influences. Ashé is a key principal of the island's African heritage, encompassing a philosophy of human symbiosis with nature. Initially brought to the island by two million victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the concept of Ashé consolidated over three centuries into the spiritual system known as Santería. Santería has endured discrimination and commercialization to become a global phenomenon now practiced by some five million people in the United States alone. Introduced into Australia in the early 2000s by Cuban practitioners, Santería's focus on human-natural balance aligns with ancient Indigenous beliefs and with emerging public commitments to environmental responsibility. Produced through a partnership between The University of Melbourne, the Afrekete Festival, Santería ritual specialists, Suns of Mercury, and a growing community of supporters, this short film explores these deepening connections. See the film here:
https://www.facebook.com/sunsofmercury/posts/1171889129617911
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SUNS OF MERCURY IS A CREATIVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN PERFORMING ARTISTS AROUND THE WORLD.
Visit... more SUNS OF MERCURY IS A CREATIVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN PERFORMING ARTISTS AROUND THE WORLD.
Visit the official website here: www.sunsofmercury.com
Find us on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/sunsofmercury
Mercury is the mythic go-between who forges our collaborations in music, film and community building. Rhythms and lifeworlds come together in our compositions and collaborations. See the SOM official site for more about our projects with Cuban healers, Mexican guardians of nature, and Australian first nation and migrant Yoruba artists.
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Journal articles and book chapters by Adrian Hearn
LASA Forum 52(3): 53-57, 2021
As China’s urban population edges toward one billion people, demand for pork, noodles, and bread ... more As China’s urban population edges toward one billion people, demand for pork, noodles, and bread is growing. To sustain this demand requires soybeans processed into animal feed, plus wheat and barley. The resulting supply chains, largely immune to recent trade frictions, stretch from China’s dinner tables to South America’s soy plantations and Australia’s grain fields. Brazil and Australia reflect a comparable history of food production: from Indigenous horticulture to colonial agriculture and postcolonial agribusiness. Commodity cropping in both countries has combined with urban expansion to encroach on peri-urban land, where fresh food has historically been grown for cities. Citizens are pushing back with community farms and online platforms that connect producers with inner city customers. This article finds that local food activists are responding to global pressures in Beijing as much as in Rio de Janeiro and Melbourne. In all cases, their ability to mobilize communities and secure support from governments is strengthened by the articulation of food traditions.
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As urban agriculture becomes increasingly recognised as a contributor to nutritional and civic we... more As urban agriculture becomes increasingly recognised as a contributor to nutritional and civic wellbeing, real estate developers and community associations have promoted it to advance distinct agendas. The article analyses this phenomenon in Melbourne and São Paulo, where colonial and industrial legacies have set the stage for urban agriculture's resurgence and resulting "internal contradictions." Developers of upmarket condominiums in both cities advertise urban agriculture as a purchasable commodity capable of recovering customers' lost connections with nature and each other. However, the gentrifying effects of these developments deepen rather than alleviate social and environmental ills. By contrast, community projects pro led in four case studies emphasised urban agriculture's ability to confront the long-term neglect of land, employment, and environment. We conclude that the capacity of urban agriculture to improve food systems is enhanced when proponents develop historically informed narratives that engage and inform consumers and municipal governments.
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The growth of Chinese cities to an expected 860 million people has generated unprecedented demand... more The growth of Chinese cities to an expected 860 million people has generated unprecedented demand for Latin American agriculture products, but the intensification of industrial farming has provoked shortages of safe and healthy food in both regions. For Brazil, the deficiencies result from the loss of rural livelihoods to export-oriented soy and cattle farming, resulting rural-urban migration, and the consequent destruction of peri-urban family farms as cities grow. For China, agricultural industrialization has involved greater reliance on chemical inputs and contamination with pollutants,
provoking widespread public distrust in the safety of food. Through case studies from Beijing and Rio de Janeiro, the article examines efforts to address these concerns through localized urban food programs that build trust between producers, consumers, and governments. I call the protagonists behind these initiatives beanstalks, arguing that they represent a new variety of globally networked intermediary. Like the fabled beanstalk climbed by Jack, they link local realities to a wider universe of promise and peril.
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América Latina y el Caribe y China: Recursos naturales y medio ambiente. Mexico City: Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe, pp.131-157, 2017
Los suministros de alimentos urbanos se enfrentan a una presión sin precedentes, dependiendo del ... more Los suministros de alimentos urbanos se enfrentan a una presión sin precedentes, dependiendo del crecimiento de las ciudades del mundo. Para el año 2050 más de seis mil millones de personas vivirán en ciudades, lo cual generará desafíos sin precedentes para la producción y distribución sostenible de alimentos. Los estudios técnicos y económicos de la seguridad alimentaria urbana llevadas a cabo por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación y ONU-Habitat muestran que los resultados se ven influidos por el grado de consenso entre los productores, los consumidores y los gobiernos locales. Sin embargo, cómo superar las diferencias y lograr este consenso es menos conocido. En este trabajo se argumenta que la confianza es fundamental para conciliar las distintas agendas de seguridad alimentaria entre individuos y grupos que son desconocidos, y en ocasiones antagónicos.
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Chinese communities resident in Mexico and Cuba face a common problem: their dealings with busine... more Chinese communities resident in Mexico and Cuba face a common problem: their dealings with business partners in China are perceived as a threat to national interests. In Mexico this concern emanates from manufacturers unable to compete with Chinese imports, and is evident in antagonistic news media and acts of hostility against Chinese businesses. In Cuba it stems from the state's stewardship over economic sovereignty, and is evident in efforts to assimilate Havana's Chinatown and its entrenched informal sector into a centralized scheme of commercial regulation. Interviews with policy makers, local officials and Chinese entrepreneurs indicate that the " rationalization " of Chinese ethnic allegiances for the greater public good is a critical step towards alleviating tensions. I conclude that both countries can leverage benefits from overseas Chinese communities, but to do so they must support their entrepreneurial activities, harness their networks to promote targeted imports and exports, and develop more culturally sensitive regulations.
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China’s deepening engagement with Latin America has been
accompanied by concerns about the Chines... more China’s deepening engagement with Latin America has been
accompanied by concerns about the Chinese government’s regard for
international conventions of economic governance. Critics claim that
across Latin America and the Caribbean, Chinese aid and trade are characterised by excessive state intervention. This article argues that, for two reasons, the rationale for these misgivings is dissipating. First, since the onset of the global financial crisis, China has gained influence in multilateral institutions, prompting them toward greater acceptance of public spending in developing countries. Second, recent developments in Cuba show that China is actively encouraging the Western hemisphere’s only communist country to liberalise its economy. China sits at the crossroads of these local and global developments, prompting Cuba toward rapprochement with international norms even as it works to reform them.
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Setting the Agenda: Asia and Latin America in the 21st Century, pp.33-38, 2012
Latin America and Australia share a set of challenges in managing their economies. Driven by Chin... more Latin America and Australia share a set of challenges in managing their economies. Driven by China, the primarization phenomenon is generating pressure on both to ensure that the benefits of the commodity boom flow on to citizens and advance national interests, including support to manufacturing sectors. This think piece explores two strategies for mitigating the risks inherent in this process: (1) the formulation of effective and appropriate taxation regimes that respond to the resource boom, and (2) more sophisticated management of foreign land titles. Given the prominent role of sovereign wealth funds in China’s penetration of foreign primary sectors, inter-regional dialogue on these issues is becoming increasingly necessary.
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As Chinese cities edge toward projections of one billion residents by 2025,
they are generating u... more As Chinese cities edge toward projections of one billion residents by 2025,
they are generating unprecedented demand for food. Ambitions to meet this demand with domestic production are still far from reality, prompting Chinese agriculture enterprises to buy and invest overseas. This article examines the consequences for Brazil, which in 2013 provided 45 % of China’s soybean imports. It finds that diverging traditions of state-society trust have provoked Brazilian uncertainties about the objectives and management practices of investing Chinese actors. It concludes that successful “South-South” relations between China and Brazil will require fresh approaches to trust between state and society that break with previous development theory and practice.
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Cuba Today: Continuity and Change Since the ‘Special Period’, pp.209-227, 2004
Since the early 1990s international NGOs have worked with Cuban authorities and neighborhood orga... more Since the early 1990s international NGOs have worked with Cuban authorities and neighborhood organizations to implement decentralized community welfare initiatives. Two particularly salient challenges resulting from these collaborations have been the definition of mutually acceptable NGO-State-Community relationships and the balancing of public interest with commercial competitiveness in sustainable projects. Based on 18 months of participant observation, two case studies show how emerging projects have sought to promote environmental education and community empowerment while adhering to Cuban State regulations designed to protect political sovereignty and national commercial interests. This delicate integration of development objectives has been facilitated by the strategic deployment of project reference terms like "civil society" and "sustainability", which Cuban authorities and international NGOs often interpret in contradictory ways.
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Con frecuencia se escucha que Cuba se encuentra en una encrucijada; menos habituales son las refl... more Con frecuencia se escucha que Cuba se encuentra en una encrucijada; menos habituales son las reflexiones sobre los vínculos de las principales transformaciones en la Isla con los reordenamientos globales. En 2010, el comercio entre la Isla y los Estados Unidos ascendió a 371 millones de dólares (de solo 6,9 millones en 2000), pero el camino a la reforma previsto por el gobierno cubano se dirige menos hacia las políticas de libre mercado de Washington que al capitalismo estatal de Beijing. China es su segundo socio económico, con un comercio bilateral anual que alcanzó 1,83 billones de dólares en 2010 (por debajo de los 2,27 billones en 2008, antes de la crisis financiera mundial, y por encima de 314 millones en 2000). Los acuerdos con China han estado acompañados por la recomendación de establecer relaciones comerciales, e inversiones, más abiertas, solicitud trasmitida reiteradamente a los funcionarios cubanos por su contraparte china desde el encuentro de Fidel Castro y el primer ministro Li Peng en Beijing, en 1995.
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In April 2011 the Cuban government announced a suite of national reforms with deeper socioeconomi... more In April 2011 the Cuban government announced a suite of national reforms with deeper socioeconomic ramifications than the limited liberalizations it permitted in the 1990s. Although unprecedented in revolutionary Cuba, the proposed changes draw on previous efforts to manage decentralization, employment and the informal sector. The paper examines two case studies of prior experimentation with liberalization since 2000 in the municipality of Old Havana and the neighbouring district, Barrio Chino (Chinatown). We argue that the 2011 reforms are informed by specific lessons and insights from these two experiences and also by general development principles advocated by China.
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Download the book free of charge here:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37520
While conducting research, Hearn lived for one year each in two Santería temple-houses: one located in Old Havana and the other in Santiago de Cuba. During those stays he conducted numerous interviews: with the historian of Havana and the conservationist of Santiago de Cuba (officials roughly equivalent to mayors in the United States), acclaimed writers, influential leaders of Afro-Cuban religions, and many citizens involved in community development initiatives. Hearn draws on those interviews, his participant observation in the temple-houses, case studies, and archival research to convey the daily life experiences and motivations of religious practitioners, development workers, and politicians. Using the concept of social capital, he explains the state’s desire to incorporate tightly knit religious groups into its community development projects, and he illuminates a fundamental challenge facing Cuba’s religious communities: how to maintain their spiritual integrity and internal solidarity while participating in state-directed projects.
Reflecting diverse views on the merits of new and wide-ranging agreements, the authors consider: To what extent will the TPP facilitate the US "pivot" to Asia at a time when China, not a TPP member, is attempting to shape regional economic dynamics? Will the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, strongly backed by China, prove complementary or antagonistic to the TPP? How can countries throughout Latin America and Asia best secure benefits from emerging accords? As they engage with these and related issues/debates, they also provide informed assessments of the political and economic significance of the new agreements for the future of transpacific integration.
Get the book from Lynne Rienner Publishers:
https://www.rienner.com/title/The_Changing_Currents_of_Transpacific_Integration
The authors explore the multiple motivations driving the establishment of new Sino–Latin American linkages, the nature of those linkages, and the reactions that they have generated. They also examine how China–Latin America relations have developed over more than two hundred years. The result is a work that deals with key issues of broad regional relevance, as well as country-specific political, economic, and cultural concerns.
Available from Lynne Rienner publishers:
https://www.rienner.com/title/China_Engages_Latin_America_Tracing_the_Trajectory
Creative works by Adrian Hearn
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6IPZDdPX2zCqU6t5TI0Vfd
Embark here: www.sunsofmercury.com/yoruba
www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/who-is-nature
https://www.facebook.com/sunsofmercury/posts/1171889129617911
Visit the official website here: www.sunsofmercury.com
Find us on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/sunsofmercury
Mercury is the mythic go-between who forges our collaborations in music, film and community building. Rhythms and lifeworlds come together in our compositions and collaborations. See the SOM official site for more about our projects with Cuban healers, Mexican guardians of nature, and Australian first nation and migrant Yoruba artists.
Journal articles and book chapters by Adrian Hearn
provoking widespread public distrust in the safety of food. Through case studies from Beijing and Rio de Janeiro, the article examines efforts to address these concerns through localized urban food programs that build trust between producers, consumers, and governments. I call the protagonists behind these initiatives beanstalks, arguing that they represent a new variety of globally networked intermediary. Like the fabled beanstalk climbed by Jack, they link local realities to a wider universe of promise and peril.
accompanied by concerns about the Chinese government’s regard for
international conventions of economic governance. Critics claim that
across Latin America and the Caribbean, Chinese aid and trade are characterised by excessive state intervention. This article argues that, for two reasons, the rationale for these misgivings is dissipating. First, since the onset of the global financial crisis, China has gained influence in multilateral institutions, prompting them toward greater acceptance of public spending in developing countries. Second, recent developments in Cuba show that China is actively encouraging the Western hemisphere’s only communist country to liberalise its economy. China sits at the crossroads of these local and global developments, prompting Cuba toward rapprochement with international norms even as it works to reform them.
they are generating unprecedented demand for food. Ambitions to meet this demand with domestic production are still far from reality, prompting Chinese agriculture enterprises to buy and invest overseas. This article examines the consequences for Brazil, which in 2013 provided 45 % of China’s soybean imports. It finds that diverging traditions of state-society trust have provoked Brazilian uncertainties about the objectives and management practices of investing Chinese actors. It concludes that successful “South-South” relations between China and Brazil will require fresh approaches to trust between state and society that break with previous development theory and practice.
Download the book free of charge here:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37520
While conducting research, Hearn lived for one year each in two Santería temple-houses: one located in Old Havana and the other in Santiago de Cuba. During those stays he conducted numerous interviews: with the historian of Havana and the conservationist of Santiago de Cuba (officials roughly equivalent to mayors in the United States), acclaimed writers, influential leaders of Afro-Cuban religions, and many citizens involved in community development initiatives. Hearn draws on those interviews, his participant observation in the temple-houses, case studies, and archival research to convey the daily life experiences and motivations of religious practitioners, development workers, and politicians. Using the concept of social capital, he explains the state’s desire to incorporate tightly knit religious groups into its community development projects, and he illuminates a fundamental challenge facing Cuba’s religious communities: how to maintain their spiritual integrity and internal solidarity while participating in state-directed projects.
Reflecting diverse views on the merits of new and wide-ranging agreements, the authors consider: To what extent will the TPP facilitate the US "pivot" to Asia at a time when China, not a TPP member, is attempting to shape regional economic dynamics? Will the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, strongly backed by China, prove complementary or antagonistic to the TPP? How can countries throughout Latin America and Asia best secure benefits from emerging accords? As they engage with these and related issues/debates, they also provide informed assessments of the political and economic significance of the new agreements for the future of transpacific integration.
Get the book from Lynne Rienner Publishers:
https://www.rienner.com/title/The_Changing_Currents_of_Transpacific_Integration
The authors explore the multiple motivations driving the establishment of new Sino–Latin American linkages, the nature of those linkages, and the reactions that they have generated. They also examine how China–Latin America relations have developed over more than two hundred years. The result is a work that deals with key issues of broad regional relevance, as well as country-specific political, economic, and cultural concerns.
Available from Lynne Rienner publishers:
https://www.rienner.com/title/China_Engages_Latin_America_Tracing_the_Trajectory
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6IPZDdPX2zCqU6t5TI0Vfd
Embark here: www.sunsofmercury.com/yoruba
www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/who-is-nature
https://www.facebook.com/sunsofmercury/posts/1171889129617911
Visit the official website here: www.sunsofmercury.com
Find us on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/sunsofmercury
Mercury is the mythic go-between who forges our collaborations in music, film and community building. Rhythms and lifeworlds come together in our compositions and collaborations. See the SOM official site for more about our projects with Cuban healers, Mexican guardians of nature, and Australian first nation and migrant Yoruba artists.
provoking widespread public distrust in the safety of food. Through case studies from Beijing and Rio de Janeiro, the article examines efforts to address these concerns through localized urban food programs that build trust between producers, consumers, and governments. I call the protagonists behind these initiatives beanstalks, arguing that they represent a new variety of globally networked intermediary. Like the fabled beanstalk climbed by Jack, they link local realities to a wider universe of promise and peril.
accompanied by concerns about the Chinese government’s regard for
international conventions of economic governance. Critics claim that
across Latin America and the Caribbean, Chinese aid and trade are characterised by excessive state intervention. This article argues that, for two reasons, the rationale for these misgivings is dissipating. First, since the onset of the global financial crisis, China has gained influence in multilateral institutions, prompting them toward greater acceptance of public spending in developing countries. Second, recent developments in Cuba show that China is actively encouraging the Western hemisphere’s only communist country to liberalise its economy. China sits at the crossroads of these local and global developments, prompting Cuba toward rapprochement with international norms even as it works to reform them.
they are generating unprecedented demand for food. Ambitions to meet this demand with domestic production are still far from reality, prompting Chinese agriculture enterprises to buy and invest overseas. This article examines the consequences for Brazil, which in 2013 provided 45 % of China’s soybean imports. It finds that diverging traditions of state-society trust have provoked Brazilian uncertainties about the objectives and management practices of investing Chinese actors. It concludes that successful “South-South” relations between China and Brazil will require fresh approaches to trust between state and society that break with previous development theory and practice.
algunas empresas agrícolas chinas compren e inviertan en el exterior. Este artículo examina las consecuencias para Brasil y la desconfianza que existe allí respecto a los objetivos y las prácticas de gestión de los inversores chinos, que plantea nuevos desafíos a las relaciones «Sur-Sur».