Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0362
J. Baer
In Space and Time in Epic Theater: The Brechtian Legacy, Sarah Bryant-Bertail weaves together semiotics, postmodern historiography, and historical materialism, analyzing epic theatre from its inception to its contemporary manifestations in Europe, India, and the US. The book bears some comparison to Freddie Rokem’s Performing History in its theorizing about historicity and its broad range of theatrical examples. But instead of theorizing generally about history and its relation to representation, she grounds her analysis specifically in the self-conscious historicity of epic theatre. What distinguishes epic theatre is its foregrounding of the construction of space and time, its “dynamic, selfaware representations of space, time and history” (8), without any attempt to reconcile contradictions or tensions between these representations. According to Bryant-Bertail, Brecht and Piscator closely followed Marx’s historical materialism: “the theater was to demystify the operation of social, economic, and political forces by showing how certain orders of reality had developed historically and were perpetuated” (2–3). In this way, she articulates semiotics itself as a political gesture, echoing Eco’s idea that “because semiotics can reveal the construction of ideological texts, . . . it can be a form of social criticism and thus a form of social practice” (72). In epic theatre, everything is “history in the making,” or, as Bryant-Bertail phrases it, “the staging of historicity itself,” revealing history as “eminently changeable, a continuing work capable of being rewritten” (5). Herein lies its political efficacy, for the present as well as for the past.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0357
Bonnie A. Lucero
Anthropologists have recently begun to show more interest in applying ethnographic research methods to the analysis of the social and cultural contexts of disability. However, there is still much to be done in order to demonstrate anthropology’s relevance to the study of physical and intellectual disability, the relationship between disability and reproductive technologies, and concepts of normality and abnormality. Gail Heidi Landsman’s new book on finding meaning in motherhood in the U.S. when a child has a disability is a very important step in this direction. Landsman explains in her introduction that her monograph is
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Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0360
G. Prevost
The question of religious authority in Islam, commonly referred to as “who speaks for Islam,” has been receiving more attention and added visibility in recent years due to a variety of factors, including the fact that more diasporic Muslim communities are intermingling with the fabric of new societies and, thus, contributing to accelerating processes of cross-cultural inoculation and cross-intellectual fertilization. Additionally, there is the fast growing, and swiftly expanding, new realm of digitalization of religion in the age of cyberspace, which opens the door for new voices to be heard in the field of ijtihad (re-interpretation of Islamic religious scriptures). This means inviting a plethora of new views and readings of Islamic religious texts, some of which are coming from outside traditional religious establishments,1 which opens the floodgates for an amalgamation of both positive effects and negative consequences as indicated in some of the scholarly publications on this topic.2
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Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.13169/INTEJCUBASTUD.11.1.0008
Jeremy Jacob Peretz
{"title":"Cubans in Guyana: Peripheral Economies Transact","authors":"Jeremy Jacob Peretz","doi":"10.13169/INTEJCUBASTUD.11.1.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/INTEJCUBASTUD.11.1.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49483478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0174
Bonilla-Santiago
The comprehensive neighbourhood transformation approach of planning in the Havana Historian’s Office is a case study of local community development in the capital of Cuba. The study is justified by its relevance and timeliness of the issues found in community development and its implications in people and place wellbeing, especially in the most disadvantaged sectors of Cuban society. It seeks to analyse the improvement of life conditions in achieving social inclusion, citizen participation in community. A theoretical analysis of community development and local development within a community capital approach is provided. The experiences of the comprehensive neighbourhood transformation workshops constitute an important contribution to the local/community development process. The use of endogenous resources for managing human, social, political, natural and cultural capital ensures sustainable community development and innovative methodologies for community planning.
{"title":"A Case Study of Local Community Development and Citizen Participation in Cuba: A Comprehensive Neighbourhood Transformation Approach","authors":"Bonilla-Santiago","doi":"10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0174","url":null,"abstract":"The comprehensive neighbourhood transformation approach of planning in the Havana Historian’s Office is a case study of local community development in the capital of Cuba. The study is justified by its relevance and timeliness of the issues found in community development and its implications in people and place wellbeing, especially in the most disadvantaged sectors of Cuban society. It seeks to analyse the improvement of life conditions in achieving social inclusion, citizen participation in community. A theoretical analysis of community development and local development within a community capital approach is provided. The experiences of the comprehensive neighbourhood transformation workshops constitute an important contribution to the local/community development process. The use of endogenous resources for managing human, social, political, natural and cultural capital ensures sustainable community development and innovative methodologies for community planning.","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0310
Bacsán
{"title":"‘An Unrivalled Paradise’: The Production of Difference in the Cuban Ministry of Tourism's Auténtica Cuba","authors":"Bacsán","doi":"10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0310","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66271341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0142
Hernández
{"title":"On Politics in Civil Society: Reflections about Civic Culture, Morality and Common Sense","authors":"Hernández","doi":"10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0200
Christiansen, Leonard
{"title":"Human Resources for Health and Health Outcomes in Cuba: An Analysis of Their Distributions over Time and Space","authors":"Christiansen, Leonard","doi":"10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0332
Medel
{"title":"Cuban Democracy in the Speeches of Fidel Castro, 1959–1976","authors":"Medel","doi":"10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.11.2.0332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66271351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.11.1.0061
Jacklin
{"title":"The Cuban Refugee Criminal: Media Reporting and the Production of a Popular Image","authors":"Jacklin","doi":"10.13169/intejcubastud.11.1.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.11.1.0061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41360,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Cuban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66270629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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