Voluntarism, bureaucratism and idealism as alibis for hunger in Cuba

Abstract

Studies of human societies have gained space in the analysis of phenomena that were previously viewed by the exact sciences. Hunger, until then, had been analyzed mainly through biological studies. The social sciences have changed throughout the 20th century and have seen the emergence of studies of phenomena in which both social and exact sciences converge. This exchange between sciences coincided with the end of the Second World War, which had an impact on the interest in the welfare of nations, in the face of the social crisis resulting from that conflict. The United Nations Organization, which came into being in February 1945, was the objective result on the Western side. It is then that this concern for the societies of the world was translated into the adaptation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to contemporary conditions. In this process, the studies on the subject of food took off and the question arose: What is Hunger?