Dr Helen Yaffe

  • Senior Lecturer (Economic & Social History)

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in Economic and Social History in January 2018 after previously teaching in Economic History at the London School of Economics, in History at the University College London and in Development Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. My teaching focuses on Latin American and Cuban development. At the LSE, I taught the history of economics and the political economy of late development. In 2011, I joined the Geography Department at the University of Leicester as a Research Associate to work with Professor Gavin Brown on the Leverhulme-funded project Non-Stop Against Apartheid: the spaces of transnational solidarity. The project examined the history and geography of the Non-Stop Picket maintained between 1986 and 1990 by the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group outside the South African Embassy in Trafalgar Square opposing apartheid and calling for the release of Nelson Mandela.  Our book, Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-stop Picket Against Apartheid, was published in 2017.

 

Since 1995 (as a teenager), I have spent time living and researching in Cuba. My doctoral thesis, undertaken at the LSE, was adapted for publication as Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. I have continued to research and publish on Cuban development. My new book We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World, is due for publication by Yale University Press in February 2020.

Research interests

  • Cuban development (including developments in medical science/biotechnology, energy and ecology, sustainable development, education, science and technology)
  • Economic history of Cuba
  • Latin American development
  • Latin American regionalism
  • Socialist political economy

Publications

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Jump to: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2015 | 2014
Number of items: 17.

2023

Yaffe, H. (2023) The US blockade, and the “1 cent 4 Cuba” campaign to challenge it. International Journal of Cuban Studies, 14(2), pp. 207-213. (doi: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0207)

Yaffe, H. (2023) Tarea Vida: Cuba’s state plan to confront climate change. In: Bastian, H., Brenner, P., Kirk, J. M. and Leogrande, W. M. (eds.) Contemporary Cuba: The Post-Castro Era. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 9781538177136

2022

Yaffe, H. (2022) Che as Minister: the promotion of science and technology for Cuba’s socialist development. Globalizations, (doi: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2111078) (Early Online Publication)

Acosta, D., Rivalta, H., Yaffe, H. and Rivalta, L. (2022) Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change. [Audio]

2021

Yaffe, H. (2021) US sanctions Cuba ‘to bring about hunger, desperation and the overthrow of the government’. In: Davis, S. and Ness, I. (eds.) Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy. Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences (212). Brill: Leiden, pp. 129-147. ISBN 9789004501195 (doi: 10.1163/9789004501201_009)

Yaffe, H. (2021) Cuba’s Tarea Vida: sustainable development and combating climate change. In: Kirk, E. J., Story, I. and Clayfield, A. (eds.) Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9781793651310

Yaffe, H. (2021) The quest for energy alternatives in post-1959 Cuba. In: Kirk, E. J., Story, I. and Clayfield, A. (eds.) Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management. Series: Lexington Studies on Cuba. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9781793651310

2020

Yaffe, H. (2020) Cuba and COVID-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity. [Audio]

Yaffe, H. (2020) We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World. Yale University Press: New Haven. ISBN 9780300230031 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctvwcjfc4)

Yaffe, H. (2020) Cuba - Sul filo del rasoio tra lo Stato e il mercato. In: Califano, A. (ed.) In bilico. Quale democrazia per l'America Latina? Autoritarismo e ricerca di alternative radicali. Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli: Milan, pp. 100-111. ISBN 9788868353759

2019

Yaffe, H. (2019) The curious case of Cuba's biotech revolution. In: Inkster, I. (ed.) History of Technology Volume 34. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350085596

2018

Yaffe, H. (2018) Venezuela, ALBA, and the communal economic system. In: Cusak, A. K. (ed.) Understanding ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Institute of Latin American Studies: London. ISBN 9781908857224

Brown, G. and Yaffe, H. (2018) Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-stop Picket Against Apartheid. Series: Routledge spaces of childhood and youth series. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138828865

2017

Domínguez López, E. and Yaffe, H. (2017) The deep, historical roots of Cuban anti imperialism. Third World Quarterly, 38(11), pp. 2517-2535. (doi: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1374171)

2015

Brown, G. and Yaffe, H. (2015) Young people's engagement with the geopolitics of anti-apartheid solidarity in 1980s' London. In: Benwell, M. C. and Hopkins, P. (eds.) Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics. Series: Critical geopolitics. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 155-168. ISBN 9781472444936

Yaffe, H. (2015) Venezuela: building a socialist communal economy? International Critical Thought, 5(1), pp. 23-41. (doi: 10.1080/21598282.2014.996178)

2014

Brown, G. and Yaffe, H. (2014) Practices of solidarity: opposing Apartheid in the Centre of London. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 46(1), pp. 34-52. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12037)

This list was generated on Thu Apr 18 18:23:32 2024 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections | Audio
Number of items: 17.

Articles

Yaffe, H. (2023) The US blockade, and the “1 cent 4 Cuba” campaign to challenge it. International Journal of Cuban Studies, 14(2), pp. 207-213. (doi: 10.13169/intejcubastud.14.2.0207)

Yaffe, H. (2022) Che as Minister: the promotion of science and technology for Cuba’s socialist development. Globalizations, (doi: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2111078) (Early Online Publication)

Domínguez López, E. and Yaffe, H. (2017) The deep, historical roots of Cuban anti imperialism. Third World Quarterly, 38(11), pp. 2517-2535. (doi: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1374171)

Yaffe, H. (2015) Venezuela: building a socialist communal economy? International Critical Thought, 5(1), pp. 23-41. (doi: 10.1080/21598282.2014.996178)

Brown, G. and Yaffe, H. (2014) Practices of solidarity: opposing Apartheid in the Centre of London. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 46(1), pp. 34-52. (doi: 10.1111/anti.12037)

Books

Yaffe, H. (2020) We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World. Yale University Press: New Haven. ISBN 9780300230031 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctvwcjfc4)

Brown, G. and Yaffe, H. (2018) Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-stop Picket Against Apartheid. Series: Routledge spaces of childhood and youth series. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138828865

Book Sections

Yaffe, H. (2023) Tarea Vida: Cuba’s state plan to confront climate change. In: Bastian, H., Brenner, P., Kirk, J. M. and Leogrande, W. M. (eds.) Contemporary Cuba: The Post-Castro Era. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 9781538177136

Yaffe, H. (2021) US sanctions Cuba ‘to bring about hunger, desperation and the overthrow of the government’. In: Davis, S. and Ness, I. (eds.) Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy. Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences (212). Brill: Leiden, pp. 129-147. ISBN 9789004501195 (doi: 10.1163/9789004501201_009)

Yaffe, H. (2021) Cuba’s Tarea Vida: sustainable development and combating climate change. In: Kirk, E. J., Story, I. and Clayfield, A. (eds.) Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9781793651310

Yaffe, H. (2021) The quest for energy alternatives in post-1959 Cuba. In: Kirk, E. J., Story, I. and Clayfield, A. (eds.) Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management. Series: Lexington Studies on Cuba. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9781793651310

Yaffe, H. (2020) Cuba - Sul filo del rasoio tra lo Stato e il mercato. In: Califano, A. (ed.) In bilico. Quale democrazia per l'America Latina? Autoritarismo e ricerca di alternative radicali. Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli: Milan, pp. 100-111. ISBN 9788868353759

Yaffe, H. (2019) The curious case of Cuba's biotech revolution. In: Inkster, I. (ed.) History of Technology Volume 34. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350085596

Yaffe, H. (2018) Venezuela, ALBA, and the communal economic system. In: Cusak, A. K. (ed.) Understanding ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Institute of Latin American Studies: London. ISBN 9781908857224

Brown, G. and Yaffe, H. (2015) Young people's engagement with the geopolitics of anti-apartheid solidarity in 1980s' London. In: Benwell, M. C. and Hopkins, P. (eds.) Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics. Series: Critical geopolitics. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 155-168. ISBN 9781472444936

Audio

Acosta, D., Rivalta, H., Yaffe, H. and Rivalta, L. (2022) Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change. [Audio]

Yaffe, H. (2020) Cuba and COVID-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity. [Audio]

This list was generated on Thu Apr 18 18:23:32 2024 BST.

Supervision

I am happy to supervise PhDs in the following areas:

  • Cuban History
  • Political economy of development
  • Latin American development
  • Latin American regionalism
  • Socialist political economy

 

Current Supervision:

Jade Saab ‘Violence in Socialist Revolutions and the Centralization of Governance’

  • Ratchford, Aidan
    Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: Trade and Goodwill Missions 1959-1965

Teaching

Undergraduate

Level 1

  • Economic & Social History 1A: Towards globalisation, 1750-1914
  • Economic & Social History 1B: Towards globalisation, 1914-2008

Honours

  • Latin America in the 20th Century
  • Cuba: Resilient Revolution

Postgraduate

  • Latin American Development: from independence to the present
  • The Globalised Economy
  • Business in the Global Economy