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digital anthropologist
“In this subtle and beautifully crafted ethnography, Cearns invites us to travel through the many Cuban circuits of exchange that give shape to mutating histories of connection within and between Havana and Miami.
The result is an exhilarating and illuminating journey into the changing contours and expansive terrain of contemporary cubanidad.”
— Jeffrey S. Kahn, author of
Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire
"Cearns’ book is ethnographically dense, beautifully written, and full of surprising analytical insights."
— Steffen Köhn, author of
Island in the Net: Digital Culture in Post-Castro Cuba
"A story of contraband that recasts the stereotypical template of Latin American narcos by re-embedding economic circulations within their social context. Cearns and Beach synthesise deeply ethnographic examinations of contraband, focusing on the underrepresented and invisible communities that stitch global trade and financial systems together."
– Caroline Schuster, Australian National University
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