TOC: Ab Imperio 2-2205 The Politics of Language and the Language of Politics of Empire and Nation

Sun Aug 21 04:28:30 UTC 2005

Dear colleagues,

Ab Imperio editors would like to draw your attention to the second issue of the journal in 2005. The annual theme of this year is LANGUAGES OF SELF-DESCRIPTION IN EMPIRE  AND MULTINATIONAL STATE and the current issue thematic focus is “The Politics of Language and the Language of Politics of Empire and Nation”. The table of contents of the first issue is available for viewing at http://abimperio.net/scgi-bin/aishow.pl?idlang=1&state=shown&idnumb=42

Please, note that article abstracts are now available for viewing  at the journal’s website http://abimperio.net  The language of publication is given in brackets..

Table of contents

Ab Imperio 2-2005 The Politics of Language and the Language of Politics of Empire and Nation

METHODOLOGY AND THEORY

Editors
    Politics of Language and Politics of Meaning (E)

Andrew S. Thompson
    The Language of Imperialism and the Meaning of Empire: Imperial Discourse in British Politics, 1895-1914 (R)

Andrew S. Thompson
    Imperial Languages: A Postscript for AI (R)

Bill Ashcroft
    Language (R)

Interview with Vladimir Alpatov
    “Contemporary Russia Does Not Have a Well Defined Language Policy...” (R)

History
Forum AI:
“Alphabet, Language and National Identity in the Russian Empire”
Mikhail Dolbilov, Darius Staliunas
    Introduction to the Forum (R)

Henryk Glebocki 
    Alexander Hilferding and the Slavophile Projects of Alteration of Cultural-National Identity in Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire (R)

Johannes Remy
    The Ukrainian Alphabet as a Political Question in the Russian Empire before 1876 (E)

Ricarda Vulpius
    Language Policy in the Russian Empire: A Case of Translation of the Bible into Ukrainian, 1860-1906 (R)

Darius Staliunas
    Lithuanian Identity, Language, and Script in Russian Nationality Policy (in the 1860s) (R)

Mikhail Dolbilov
    Vicissitudes of Cyrillization: The Ban on Latin Alphabet and Bureaucratic Russification of the Lithuanians in the Vilno General-Governorship, 1864-1882 (R)

Sergei Tokt’
    Latin or Cyrillic Alphabet: The Problem of Alphabet Choice in Byelorussian National Movement in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century (R)

ARCHIVE

Ricarda Vulpius
    Ukrainian Language and Schooling in Late Imperial Period (R)
Document
    Struggle for the Language: Publication of Documents (R)

SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE

Olga Filippova, Margrethe B. Sovik
    Images of Languages and the Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine:The Burden of the Past and Contestation in the Present (E)

William Fierman
    Kazakh Language and Prospects for Its Role in Kazakh “Groupness” (E)

ABS OF EMPIRE AND NATIONALISM STUDIES
The Art of History Writing in Empire and Nation: Azerbaijan
Lale Yalc,y'n-Heckmann
    Remembering the Dead and the Living of the “Kolkhoz” and “Sovkhoz”: Past and Present of Gendered Rural Life in Azerbaijan (E)

Sergei Rumiantsev
    Heroic Epic Poetry and a Construction of the Image of the Historical Enemy (R)    

Yasemin Kilit Aklar
    The Teaching of History in Azerbaijan and Nationalism (E)

NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES

Sergei Digol
    Paradigms and Paradoxes of the Concept of Nation State in Post-Soviet Moldova: Language, Statehood, and National Identity (R)

BOOK REVIEWS

Oksana Sarkisova
Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999). 320 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 0-691-02625-4 (paperback).

Wim van Meurs
Евгений Глущенко. Герои империи. Портреты российских колониальных деятелей. Москва: “ХХI век-Согласие”, 2001. 464 c. ISBN: 5-293-00038-1.

Elena Vishlenkova
Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (Ed.), Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 (London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). 208 pp.+120 ill. Index. ISBN: 0-674-0127-8-X.

Oktay Tanrisever
Петр Эбэрхардт. География населения России / Пер. с польского. Санкт-Петербург: “Невский простор”, 2003. 304 с. Список литературы, список рисунков, список таблиц. ISBN: 5-94716-032-3.

Svetlana Smirnova
Вячеслав Леонидович Носевич. Традиционная белорусская деревня в европейской перспективе. Минск: “Тэхналогiя”, 2004. 350 с. ISBN: 985-458-096-2.

Pavel Stefanov
Елена Вишленкова. Заботясь о душах подданных: Религиозная политика в России первой четверти XIX века. Саратов: Издательство Саратовского университета, 2002. 444 с. Библиографический список, указатель имен. ISBN: 5-292-03001-5.

Ernest Gyidel
Украинская греко-католическая церковь: Преодоление мифа. Материалы семинара 25 ноября 2002 г. Москва: Институт изучения религии в странах СНГ и Балтии; Международное общество “Мемориал”; Фонд Генриха Бёлля, 2002. 148 с.

Michael Rouland
Ste'phane A. Dudoignon (Ed.), Devout Societies vs. Impious States? Transmitting Islamic Learning in Russia, Central Asia, and China, through the Twentieth Century (Proceedings of an International Colloquium Held in the Carre' des Sciences, French

Sergei Digol
Pavel Polian, Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2004). 425 p. Bibliography, Index of Personal Names, Index of Geographical Names. ISBN: 963-9241-73-3.

Irina Morozova
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). 296 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-87580-310-5.

Olga Gurova
Советская власть – народная власть? Очерки истории народного восприятия советской власти в СССР / Под ред. Тимо Вихавайнена. Санкт-Петербург: “Европейский Дом”, 2003. 337 с. ISBN: 5-8015-0159-2.

Alexander Lokshin
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Making Jews Modern. The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004). 311 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-253-34304-6.

Alexander Osipian
Kate Brown, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004). 308 pp. Index. ISBN: 3-631-38327-4.

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