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EDITOR
Caroline Turner
GUEST EDITORS Peter
Read and Marivic Wydham
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VOL. X, NO.1, 2003
ISSN: 1440-0669 (print version ISSN only, ISSN pending for online version)
EURIDICE CHARON CARDONA finished a Masters degree in Middle Eastern studies at the University of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She worked as a curator in the House of Arabs section of the Havana City Museum for several years. In 1998 Euridice completed an Honours degree in sociology at the University of Newcastle. She is currently doing her PhD thesis on expressions of Cuban identity in New South Wales, and teaching Spanish language.
GABRIELA CORONADO worked for 28 years as a researcher in Mexico, in the areas of anthropology and linguistics, with a particular focus on bilingualism and issues of language and culture among Mexican indigenous peoples. Across her career she has written or co-written 8 books, and many articles. Out of this work has grown her interest in multiculturalism and identity, in a broader methodological framework. She pursued this new line of development in her doctorate at the University of Western Sydney from 1997 to 2000 (Silenced Voices of Mexican Culture: Identity, resistance and creativity). Between 1999 and 2001 she co-directed the Mexico in Cyberspace project with B. Hodge, developing strategies of Internet research, working extensively on globalisation and cyberculture in Mexico and the US. Since 2002 she has been Lecturer in the School of Management at UWS, in Organisational Studies, extending her interests in issues of globalisation, and intercultural contexts of business, specifically related to the cultural and political aspects of the tourist industry in Mexico and Australia.
EREZ COHEN lectures in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Adelaide. He completed a BA and an MA at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In 1997 he came to Australia and commenced his PhD in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Adelaide. His fieldwork was conducted among Latin American migrants and refugees in Adelaide from 1998 to 2000. The final thesis was submitted in November 2001 and is now available in the Bar Smith Library at the University of Adelaide. His current research project focuses on an Israeli ethnic radio program in Melbourne.
ALEJANDRO GARCÍA ALVAREZ is Emeritus Professor, and President of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, both in the University of Havana, where he received his doctoral degree in Historical Sciences in 1986. Since 1969 Professor García Alvarez has taught in the disciplines of Cuban History, Methodology of Historical Research and Historical and Cultural Heritage at the same university. He has given Masters and PhD courses and offered conference papers in several universities and centres of research in Cuba, Mexico and Spain. He has been keynote speaker at international conferences in Cuba, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Argentina and Spain. He has published extensively on the themes of Economic History and the History of Culture in journals and collected works in Cuba, Spain, the United States, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico. The field of socio-economic history, and particularly of corporate activity in the different sectors of production and services, have characterised his professional work in the field of research. Among his more notable publications in the field are La United Fruit: Un caso del dominio imperialista en Cuba (Havana 1976), Caminos para el Azucar (Havana 1987), La gran burguesía comercial en Cuba (Havana 1990), Sugar and Railroads (North Carolina 1998), Una saga azucarera entre dos siglos in Asturias y Cuba en torno al 98 (Oviedo 1994), Estructuras de una economía colonial en transicion, in La nacion soòada: Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas (Aranjuez 1996), ‘Cuba, una etapa en la trayectoria caribeña del henequen’ in the journal Historia y Sociedad (San Juan, Puerto Rico 1997), ‘Despues de la Guerra, una república azucarera en auge’ in the journal Studia Historica (vol. 15, Salamanca 1995), ‘Metamorfosis de una institución finaciera: El Banco Español de la Isla de Cuba’ in the journal Tiempos de América (no. 1 1998), Cuba 1898. Inventario para una neocolonia in Economía y colonias en la España del 98 (Comp. Pedro Tedde de Lorca Madrid 1999), Fuentes históricas cubanas (Madrid 1998) and De la consolidación a la crisis (Havana 2001). His Caminos para el Azucar received the Elsa Gouveia Prize of the Association of Caribbean Historians and La gran burguesía comercial en Cuba received el Premio Nacional de la Crítica, Cuba 1991.
ADRIAN H. HEARN is a PhD candidate in anthropology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and a professional percussionist. His research in Senegal and Cuba focuses on the capacity of urban community-based organisations rooted in religious, musical, and medicinal traditions to deliver social welfare services. This article is comprised of revised versions of papers presented at the American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington, DC, December 2001, and the Humanities Research Council ‘Diaspora of the Latin American Imagination’ conference in September 2001. Thanks are due to La Trobe University for funding the research and to the colleagues in Cuba who made it possible.
MIGUEL HUEZO MIXCO is a Salvadorean poet, and author of six books of poetry and three of essays. For six years he has directed the editorial board of the National Council for Culture and Art. He participated in the Salvadorean civil war (1981–1992) in the Chalatenango front where he was in charge of the guerilla radio transmitter. He has received fellowships and honours from institutions in the United States and Europe. He collaborates with distinguished Spanish-language journals, such as Letras Libres and El Malpensante, among others. His book of poetry Comarcas (Rogelio Sinán Award, Panama, 2000), will be published at the end of 2004 by the University of Veracruz, Jalapa, Mexico.
BEGOÑA LOBO ABASCAL has a Bachelor of Arts in Law from the University Complutense of Madrid (1982–1987), a PhD in Problems and perspectives for the national integration in Latin America from the Iberoamerican Cooperation Institute and the University Complutense of Madrid (1987–1989), and a Masters in Migrations and Intercommunity Relationships from the UniversityAutónoma of Madrid (2000). She works as a lawyer specialising in refugees, migrations and Human Rights. She has worked as Legal Adviser for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Madrid (2003), as Coordinator for the Valencia Community Office of the Spanish Commission for Refugees, CEAR (2001–2003), and in the Center for Refugees, Institute for Immigrants and Social Services, Department of Labour and Social Affairs, in Mislata, Valencia, (1996–2001). She has prepared a number of articles based on oral submissions related to migration, NGOs and Cuba.
OLGA LORENZO was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1959. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from Washington University in St Louis in 1981 and won the Percival Serle Prize for a Masters thesis from Melbourne University in 2002. A former Age newspaper journalist, she teaches novel writing at RMIT University. She has won the Felix Myer Melbourne University Prize for her writing and her first novel, The Rooms in My Mother’s House, was short-listed for the Vogel Prize and the NSW Premier’s Prize and long-listed in the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize. It was a bestseller in Australia and Greece.
HIS EXCELLENCY ABELARDO POSSO SERRANO was Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador in Australia, 2000-2004.
PETER READ is a Professor at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. While primarily a social historian of Australia, he has wide interests in Latin America, especially Cuba, and incorporates much of this research into his Australian studies. His interests in Latin America include indigenous history, music, public history and the way in which individual sites are being interpreted differently or contested through memory.
PENELOPE RICHARDSON is a practising visual artist who writes on contemporary art with a special interest in Latin American art. Between 1992 and 1995 she set her studio up in Colombia, South America, while specialising in contemporary Latin American art and culture at the University of Los Andes, Bogotá. While there she exhibited widely including the Havana Print Biennial 1994, Emerging Artist Salon 1993, Colombian Salon Nacional 1994 and Patios Urbanos, British Council Bogotá 1994. She continues to maintain strong links with the cultural life and artists of Colombia evidenced in the cultural exchange projects hi/lo exotico, Melbourne Fringe Festival, 1999 and south/sur, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 2002. Her work has been included in 28 group exhibitions both nationally and overseas such as ARX, Perth 1989 and the 1990 Moet & Chandon touring exhibition. Thirteen individual exhibitions include Here, Melbourne 2003; Passenger at the Akedemie Evangelische Loccum, Germany 1999; Innocent Bystanders King Street Gallery, Sydney 1990; Viajando Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogotá 1994; and Under World West Space, Melbourne 2000. Born in Sydney she has lived and worked in Melbourne since 1995, graduating with a Master of Arts from RMIT University in 2000 and is currently lecturing in art history and theory at Victoria University, and continues to write on Latin American art and culture.
JESSICA WYNDHAM is a human rights lawyer who has worked in both a volunteer and paid capacity for a variety of national, regional and international organisations. From 2001 until 2002 Jessica worked for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the High Commissioner for Refugees in Ecuador. She considers this experience to have been her ‘baptism of fire’ into the world of human rights policy and advocacy work. Since returning to Australia, she has pursued her interest in the death penalty by writing articles and assisting in the defence of an Australian subject to the death penalty in Singapore for ReprieveAustralia. She has assisted the Human Rights Council of Australia on issues ranging from the International Criminal Court to children’s rights in the Pacific and has recently worked as a consultant for the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, preparing a report for their Advisory Council of Jurists about anti-terrorism measures and international human rights law. Jessica is currently pursuing a Master of Laws degree by research. Her thesis topic is ‘Corruption and Human Rights’.
MARIVIC WYNDHAM is a lecturer in the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney. She works in the field of Latin American Studies; in particular her work has focused on Contemporary Cuban Studies and Comparative Studies: Cuba and Cuban America, Australia and Latin America. She is presently working on a book, with Peter Read, on custodianship of place. The project focuses on particular domestic and public sites which since the advent of the Revolution have ‘changed hands’, and the implications of these changes to Cubans in and out of the island.
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