2016/01/01 by Abel Sierra Madero · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Cuban History and Society #Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies #Gender and Feminist Studies #Humanities #Political science #Art
paper · doi:10.1353/cub.2016.0016
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This text explores models of social and political control deployed in Cuba during the 1960s against individuals who did not conform to the revolutionary framework. Specifically, I examine the implementation of labor camps known as Military Units to Aid Production. These camps were created under the umbrella of compulsory military service, with the goal of “rehabilitating” homosexuals, artists, people of various religious beliefs, criminals and young men of bourgeois descent. These units will be addressed here as part of a policing system, within a broader project of social engineering based on the systematic intervention at all levels of life, the control of sexuality, and a pedagogy that rested on the political rehabilitation programs.