TOC: Ab Imperio 2-2006

Sergey Glebov sglebov at SMITH.EDU
Mon Sep 4 20:16:44 UTC 2006 

Dear colleagues,
 
as we all return to our office desks at the beginning of the new aademic
year, the editors of Ab Imperio would like to draw your attention to the
second issue of the journal (published over the summer). The issue
follows our annual concentration on ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON
LANGUAGES OF SELF DESCRIPTION OF EMPIRE AND NATION. The second issue's
focus is Conversations About Motherland: Individual and Collective
Experiences of “Homeland” 
 
If you would like to receive more information on Ab Imperio, please
visit our website at  <http://abimperio.net> http://abimperio.net, which
features all information on article submission, subscription, and
editorial contacts. Please, note that Ab Imperio is a bilingual English
and Russian journal. The language of the publication is identified in
brackets following each article's title.
 
Sincerely yours,
 
Ab Imperio editors.
 
TOC: Ab Imperio 2-2006 Conversations About Motherland: Individual and
Collective Experiences of “Homeland” 
 
 
>From the Editors “Conversations about Motherland:” in Search of the
Chronotope of Empire and Nation (Eng/Rus)
 
Methodology/Theory
 
Ann Laura Stoler and Carole McGranahan Refiguring Imperial Terrains
(Eng)
 
Rogers Brubaker In the Name of the Nation: Reflections on Nationalism
and Patriotism (RUS)
 
History
 
Christian Noack From Ancestry to Territory: Spatial Dimensions of Muslim
Identity in Imperial Russia (Eng)
 
Walter Sperling Building a Railway, Creating Imperial Space: “Locality,”
“Region,” “Russia,” “Empire” as Political Arguments in Post-Reform
Russia (Rus)
 
Bradley D. Woodworth Patterns of Civil Society in a Modernizing
Multiethnic City: a German Town in the Russian Empire Becomes Estonian
(Eng)
 
Kelly O’Neill Constructing Russian Identity in the Imperial Borderland:
Architecture, Islam, and the Transformation of the Crimean Landscape
(Eng)
 
Monica Rüthers Soviet Homeland as the Space of Urban Architecture (Rus)
 
 
Ethnology, Sociology, Political Science
 
Petr Meylakhs, Paying Due to the Motherland: an Ethno-Symbolic Analysis
of the Case of the Meschetian Turks from Central Russia (Rus)
 
 
Sergei Rumiantsev, Il’gam Abbasov From Whom Does the Motherland Begin?
The Paradoxes of National Identity Formation through Appropriation of an
“Extraterritorial” National Hero (Rus)
 
 
The Newest Mythologies
 
Alexander Filiushkin, “Rodina” on Motherland: Thoughts of a Special
Correspondent (Rus)
 
Book reviews
 
Nikita Khrapunov
    Brian Glyn Williams, The Crimean Tatars: The Diaspora Experience and
the Forging of a Nation (Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 2001). 488 pp.
(=Brill’s Inner Asian Library. Vol. 2). ISBN: 9-00412-122-6.

Andrew Wilson
    Andrei Mal’gin. Ukraina: Sobornost’ I regionalism. Simferopol’:
Sonat, 2005. 280 p. Maps, name and place index ISBN: 966-8111-45-1.

Daniel Prior
    Adrienne Lynn Edgar, Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet
Turkmenistan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004). 296 pp.,
ill. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-691-11775-6.

Ludmila Novikova
    Joshua A. Sanborn, Drafting the Russian Nation: Military
Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905 – 1925 (DeKalb:
Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). x+278pp. Notes. Bibliography.
Index. ISBN: 0-87580-306-7.

Natalia Sureva
    John R. Staples, Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe:
Settling the Molochna Basin, 1783 – 1861 (Toronto and London: University
of Toronto Press, 2003). 256 pp. Maps, Tables, Index. ISBN:
0-8020-3724-0.

Anastasia Zolotova
    Lora Engel’shtain. Skoptsy I Tsarstvo Nebesnoe: Skopcheskii put’ k
iskupleniu / Authorized translation from English by V. Mikhailin et al.
Moscow: Novoe Litersaturnoe Obozrenie, 2002 336 p., ill. ISBN: 5-867

Maria Krisan’
    Joshua D. Zimmerman, Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality:
The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Tsarist Russia, 1892 –
1914 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). 360 pp. ISBN:
0-299-19460-4.

Ekaterina Boltunova
    Anne C. Odom, What Became of Peter’s Dream? Court Culture in the
Reign of Nicholas II (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press,
2003). 112 pp., 41 ill. Index. ISBN: 1-928825-03-6.

Marina Shabasova
    Hilary Appel, A New Capitalist Order: Privatization and Ideology in
Russia and Eastern Europe (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2004); Andrea Chandler, Shocking Mother Russia: Democratization,
Social Rights, and Pension Reform in Russia, 19

Najam Abbas
    Osamu Ieda (Ed.), Transformation and Diversification of Rural
Societies in Eastern Europe and Russia (Sapporo: Slavic Research Centre,
Hokkaido University, 2002). ix+344 pp. ISBN: 4-938637-25-1.

Irina Roldugina
    E. V. Kodin. “Garvardskii proekt”. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2003. 208 p.
ISBN: 5-8243-0385-1.

Alex Marshall
    Pavel Polina. Ne po svoei vole
 istoriia i geografiia
prinuditel’nykh migratsii v SSSR. Moscow: OGI, Memorial, 2001. 326 p.
ISBN: 5-94282-007-4.

Walter Sperling
    I. A. Simonova. Fedor Zhizhov. Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 2002. 335
p., ill. ISBN: 5-235-02478-6.

Lilia Krudu
    Grigore Eremei. Nevidimoe litso vlasti. Kishinev: Litera, 2005. 760
p. ISBN: 9975-74-901-1.
 

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