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Antoni Kapcia

Professor in Latin American History, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

My research and publications have long specialised on modern Cuba, specifically in two areas.

a) Modern Cuban history: this has meant a special focus on political radicalism in the 1920s-50s and the roots of the post-1959 Revolution, and, on the Revolution's ideology, radicalisation and cultural development, with a wider interest in the questions of nationalism, national identity, and ideological patterns.

b) Contemporary Cuban history and politics, focussing on participation, the Party, the political system and cultural politics.

I have just completed a jointly authored book, arising from a 4-year project, financed by the Leverhulme Trust, in collaboration with Dr Par Kumaraswami (University of Manchester), which examines literary culture in Cuba since 1959, i.e. the processes of literary production, regulation, dissemination and consumption in Cuba. We are also about to start a new project, examining the nexus between the local, national and transnational in modern Cuba, through a study of the annual Feria del Libro.

Expertise Summary

Although my research expertise is concentrated on modern Cuban political history and contemporary Cuban politics, I teach, and have taught, across a range of subjects within the broad field of modern Latin American history, both general survey/introductory modules and specialist modules on political radicalism and national identity. I have also supervised 15 PhD and 3 Masters-level projects to completion, on different aspects of Cuban history, culture and society.

Recent Publications

  • ANTONI KAPCIA, 2012. Celebrating 50 years – but of what exactly, and why is Latin America celebrating it?. In: PAR KUMARASWAMI, ed., Rethinking the Cuban Revolution nationally and regionally: Politics, culture and identity Wiley-Blackwell. 58-76
  • KAPCIA, ANTONI, 2011. Beyond Fidel: towards an understanding of the Cuban political vanguard of the 1960s. In: ESSER, CRISTINA, ET AL, ed., Kuba. 50 Jahre zwischen Revolution, Reform – und Stillstand? Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin. 143-162
  • ANTONI KAPCIA, 2011. Defying expectations: the external profile and activism of the Cuban Revolution. In: GARDINI, G-L, & LAMBERT, P, ed., Latin American foreign policies: Between ideology and pragmatism 1st. Palgrave Macmillan. 179-196
  • ANTONI KAPCIA & PAR KUMARASWAMI, 2010. The Feria del Libro and the ritualisation of cultural belonging in Havana. In: RICHARD YOUNG AND AMANDA HOLMES, ed., Cultures of the City.: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America University of Pittsburgh Press. 204-229
  • ANTONI KAPCIA, 2012. Celebrating 50 years – but of what exactly, and why is Latin America celebrating it?. In: PAR KUMARASWAMI, ed., Rethinking the Cuban Revolution nationally and regionally: Politics, culture and identity Wiley-Blackwell. 58-76
  • KAPCIA, ANTONI, 2011. Beyond Fidel: towards an understanding of the Cuban political vanguard of the 1960s. In: ESSER, CRISTINA, ET AL, ed., Kuba. 50 Jahre zwischen Revolution, Reform – und Stillstand? Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin. 143-162
  • ANTONI KAPCIA, 2011. Defying expectations: the external profile and activism of the Cuban Revolution. In: GARDINI, G-L, & LAMBERT, P, ed., Latin American foreign policies: Between ideology and pragmatism 1st. Palgrave Macmillan. 179-196
  • ANTONI KAPCIA & PAR KUMARASWAMI, 2010. The Feria del Libro and the ritualisation of cultural belonging in Havana. In: RICHARD YOUNG AND AMANDA HOLMES, ed., Cultures of the City.: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America University of Pittsburgh Press. 204-229
  • KAPCIA, ANTONI, 2009. Lessons of the Special Period: Learning to march again Latin American Perspectives: A Journal on Capitalism and Socialism. 36(164), 30-41
  • KAPCIA, ANTONI, 2009. Batalla de Ideas: old ideology in new clothes? Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies. Available at: <http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/bildn/cuba/documents/ChangingCubaChangingWorldBook.pdf>
  • KAPCIA, ANTONI, 2008. Cuba in Revolution.: A History since the Fifties 1. Reaktion Books.
  • KAPCIA, ANTONI, 2008. Does Cuba fit yet or is it still 'exceptional'? Journal of Latin American Studies. 40, 627-650
  • ALEXANDER I. GRAY AND ANTONI KAPCIA, ed., 2008. The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society University Press of Florida.
  • KAPCIA, A, 2008. Cuba after Fidel: Continuity and Change Global Dialogue. 10, 120-129
  • ANTONI KAPCIA, 2008. Setting the Scene for a Discussion of Cuban Civil Society: the Nature of Cuban 'Communism' and the Revolution's Political Culture. In: ALEXANDER I. GRAY AND ANTONI KAPCIA, ed., The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society University Press of Florida. 20-39
  • ANTONI KAPCIA, 2008. Planning for succession in Cuba: the long "anti-transition" Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. 9(1, Winter-Spring), 43-54 (In Press.)
  • KAPCIA, A.M., 2006. Political change in Cuba: the domestic context for foreign policy. In: ERISMAN, H.M. and KIRK, J.M., eds., Redefining Cuban foreign policy: the impact of the 'Special Period' Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida. 23-48
  • KAPCIA, A., 2006. Lucha and cubanía: the (re)construction of a Cuban historical identity through the idea of (revolutionary) struggle. In: FOWLER, W and & LAMBERT, P.W., eds., Political violence and the construction of national identity in Latin America 1st. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 55-72
  • KAPCIA, A.M., 2005. Havana: the making of Cuban culture Oxford: Berg.
  • KAPCIA, A.M., 2002. The siege of the Hotel Nacional, Cuba, 1933: a reassessment Journal of Latin American Studies. 34(2), 283-310
  • KAPCIA, A.M., 2001. The Academic and Political Space in Cuba: Higher Education and the Revolution. In: MUCKLE, J. and MORGAN, W. J., eds., Nottingham : Continuing Education Press, University of Nottingham. 188-208
  • KAPCIA, A.M., 2000. Cuba : island of dreams Oxford : Berg.
  • KAPCIA, A.M., 2000. 'One hundred years of solitude: 1898 and 1998 in the Cuban search for national identity. In: , ed., Spain's 1898 Crisis. Regenerationism, modernism, post-colonialism Manchester : Manchester University Press. 229-241

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