A Changing Cuba in a Changing World

A Changing Cuba in a Changing World
Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 2008
Editor: Mauricio Font

Table of Contents:

Part I: IDEAS, IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS

• “Ideology and Power in the Cuban State” 
Stephen Wilkinson

• “Epistemic Organic Intellectuals”
Anthony P. Maingot

• “Cuba and Castro: Beyond the “Battle of Ideas”  
Mauricio A. Font

• “Batalla de Ideas: Old Ideology in New Clothes?”
Antoni Kapcia

• “What the Cuban Revolution Means to Older Cubans”
David L. Strug

• “Symbolic Emancipation in Authoritarian Cuba”
Marie Laure Geoffray

• “How Revolutions Justify Themselves”
Enrique S. Pumar

 “Bound to Outlast? Education for Socialism”
Salomon Berman

• “FAR from Perfect: The Military and Corporatism”
Brenden M. Carbonell

• “After Fidel: Mechanisms of Regime Change”
Andreas Pickel

• “The US Strategy for Transition in Cuba”
Gary H. Maybarduk

Part II: CUBA AND THE WORLD

• “Cuba and the US in a sandbox: Cuban Funny Papers”
Sara E. Cooper

 “EU-Cuba Relations”
Denis Baresch

• “Cuba’s Medical Diplomacy”
Julie M. Feinsilver

• “Rethinking Socialism in Today’s Latin America”
Ted Goertzel

 “A Contribution to the Assessment of a Changing Cuba”
Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir

Part III: ECONOMICS

• “Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourist Development”
Hilary Becker

• “Cuba’s New Export Commodity: A Framework”
Orlando Perez and Angela T. Haddad, with assistance of Frank Klackle

 “Dollarization, Distortion, and the Transformation of Work”
Emma Phillips

 “Cuban Remittance Agencies in the U.S.: A Survey”
Mario A. Gonzalez Corzo and Scott Larson

Part IV: HISTORY, CULTURE AND RACE

• “State Agenda and Race”
Alejandro Campos-Garcia

 “Benjamin no llegó a la Habana”
Rafael Rojas

• “Fernando Ortiz: Pensamiento y acción”
Judith Salermo Izquierdo

 “Japanese and Okinawan Cubans”
Ryan Masaaki Yokota

• “Eduardo Chibás: Incorrigible Man of Cuban Politics”
Ilan Ehrlich

 “La Biblioteca Nacional, Culture and Politics”
Carlos Riobó

• “Independent Medical Juntas in Colonial Cuba, 1820-1843”
Marianne Samayoa

Part V: LITERATURE, CINEMA AND ARTS

 “Globalization in the Contemporary Cuban Art World”
Natania Remba

 “Cuba’s Globalized Art World and Evolving Art Market”
Darrel Couturier

• “Reinaldo Arenas: The Sexual Politics of a Queer Activist”
Rafael Ocasio

• “El cine cubano sale de viaje”
Alfredo A. Fernandez

 “Porno para Ricardo: Rock, Analchy and Transition”
Laura García Freyre

 “Staging the Revolution: Cuba’s Theatrical Perspectives”
Yael Prizant

• “‘Los Novísimos’ and Cultural Institutions”
Lauren E. Shaw