The International Journal of Cuban Studies
(Online) ISSN 1756-347X
Issue 2
Editorials
Whose America?
Jean Stubbs highlights the big questions raised by our authors in this issue: can Cuba rise above the politico-cultural, socio-economic and climatic challenges it faces?
Globalisation and Cuba
George Lambie suggests that, in the current financial crisis, the Cuban revolution becomes more than an anachronism in the global capitalist system and instead, a possible catalyst of necessary historical change.
Classic Paper
Our America
José Martí, writing in 1891, envisaged the dawn of a new age.
José Martí and US expansionism
Rodolfo Sarracino assesses the significance of Martí's thinking about US expansionism in the late 19th century - and its relevance today.
ALBA: a process of concientización
Ken Cole argues that the development of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas and the Caribbean is as much a process of political concientización as of economic institutional organization.
Jessica Vorstermans examines the parallels in US foreign policy vis-à-vis Cuba and Venezuela.
Solidarity aid: the Cuba-Timor Leste health programme
Tim Anderson argues that development cooperation partners and health professionals have a lot to learn from Cuba's health programmes.
Arts, heritage and culture
Reading Orwell in Havana
John Pateman carried out his own research in Cuban libraries to see exactly what is available and to whom.
The wheel of fortune
Grethell Morell Otero assesses the significance of the photographic image 1970-1984 (to be read only by lovers of the genre)
Gallery 1: Cuban photodocumentalism
From the project "Cubans", examples of images from the 1970s and early 1980s .
Determined women ready to succeed
Alicia Valdés Cantero provides a comprehensive report of women's participation in Cuban musicology and their unique contribution to new methods, as well as new lines, of research.
Gallery 2: Cuban women musicologists
Photographs to accompany the above report.
Science and society
Neural Network Modelling of Reference Purity of Cuban Molasses
Osvaldo Gozá León, Hassan Kazemian, J. Hormaza, Yatali Montero-Sanchez Rojas and R. Santana report on ground-breaking multi-disciplinary research related to improving the profitability of Cuba's sugar industry.
Books
A house is not a home
For Ted A Henken this beautifully written memoir of a ballet dancer's professional development succeeds as a powerful work of autobiography, because it does so through the prism of personal sacrifice.
Lights and shadows: new perspectives on Cuban cinema
Dolores Tierney welcomes the special issue of Spanish film journal Archivos de la filmoteca devoted to Cuban cinema. She surveys the essays and evaluates their radical and revisionist approach to Cuban cinematic history.
The Anglo-Cuban Treaty of 1905
Steve Cushion recommends a new book examining a little known chapter in Anglo-US relations which started the decline of British commercial interests in Cuba and Latin America.
Continuing response to changing circumstances
Geraldine Lievesley reviews a new analysis of the ongoing process of 'Cubanising socialism' and the evolving relationship between the Cuban state and Cuban civil society.
