[Discussion] PUBL.- Ab Imperio, No. 2, 2005, Language and Politics

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From: Sergey Glebov <sglebov@smith.edu>

PUBL.- Ab Imperio, No. 2, 2005, Language and Politics

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, no. 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 the Byelorussian
National Movement in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries (R)

Archive

Ricarda Vulpius
Ukrainian Language and Schooling in the 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





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