scholarly journals Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia. By Adeeb Khalid. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xii, 241 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-293
Author(s):  
Marianne Kamp
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
University Of California

scholarly journals Through the looking glass on Cuba

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Jean Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
State Resistance

[First paragraph]State Resistance to Globalisation in Cuba. Antonio Carmona Báez. Sterling VA: Pluto Press, 2004. vii + 264 pp. (Paper US$ 29.95)La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami. Miguel A. de la Torre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xi + 181 pp. (Paper US$ 21.95)By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys in and out of Exile. María de los Angeles Torres (ed.). Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 2003. vii + 192 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society. Rafael Hernández. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. vii + 145 pp. (Cloth US$ 24.95)In the politically charged world of scholarship on Cuba, it is salutary to comment in one review essay on four quite different volumes, each complementing the others. Three are single-authored, two on island Cuba (by Antonio Carmona Báez and Rafael Hernández) and one on Miami (by Miguel A. de la Torre). All three draw on theory and concepts and are male-authored and place-centric (Cuba/Miami). The fourth (by María de los Angeles Torres) is an edited collection of the personal testimonies of women seeking a place in between the hardened politics of Cuba and Miami.

ADEEB KHALID, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform. Jadidism in Central Asia, Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998). Pp. 353.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-315
Author(s):  
MURIEL ATKIN
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Cultural Reform ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Revolutionary Period

This book focuses on the cultural dimensions of the Central Asian form of an Islamic modernist movement, Jadidism, which arose among several groups of Muslims of the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Politics was not an option for the Jadidists until the final years of the czarist monarchy and the early revolutionary period, so the author relegates that aspect of the movement to the later chapters. To the extent that involvement in politics in Russia became possible, Central Asian Jadidists sought to participate, not to pursue either isolationism or separatism. According to the author, Russian officials were the ones who mistakenly assumed that Jadidism posed a separatist threat; subsequent generations of scholars misperceived the movement through the lens of those fears. The author argues that culture is a significant dimension of the movement in its own right. It mattered in Central Asia both in the rivalry between the Jadidists and traditionalists for leadership of the region's Muslims and as a way for educated Muslims to preserve their distinctiveness within the Russian Empire.

Book Reviews

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
The Aesthetic

Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City , by Arlene Dávila . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2004 . xi + 260 pp . ISBN 0‐520‐24093‐6 ( paper ). La Lucha For Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami La Lucha For Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami , by Miguel A. De LaTorre . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2003 . Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship ( New York : Routledge , 2003 ), by Nicholas De Genova and Ana Y. Ramos‐Zayas . Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of The Aesthetic in an American Suburb Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of The Aesthetic in an American Suburb , by James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan . New York : Routledge , 2004 . Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure and Regional Development Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure and Regional Development , by Steven P. Erie . Stanford UP , 2004 .

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