Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; Prologue: Whose Planet Is It Anyway?; References; Chapter 1: Step into My Garden; Anthropological Gardening; The Map into the Garden; References; Chapter 2: Intervening, Correcting, Rewarding; Introduction; How It All Began ... ; The Cuban Revolution; Revolutionary Fruits and Ideologized Vegetables; State Communism; The Prettiest Garden in Town; Subtle Resistance; State Control of Society or Social Control of the State?; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: The Garden; The Politics of the Garden; Small, Big, Wide and Narrow: The Urban Gardens of Havana
Intimate ExperiencesNon-human Performances; The Human-Non-human Relationship; Caring Collaborations with Plants; Children of the Gardenland; A House Is Not a Home; Reverberating Gardens; Tangling Them Together; References; Chapter 4: Living in a Non-human's World; The Nature We Live By; Becoming the Garden(er); Freedom and Some Gentle Resistance; The Intimate Quality of Being; Bodily Learning; Gently, Contested, Entangled Freedoms?; Stories of Freedom; Entangling Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 5: Finally, How Does Everything Grow Together?; References; Index