About Topia
Cultural studies is one of the fastest growing areas of research, teaching and publishing in the academic world. While there are many journals reflecting the generous intellectual scope of cultural studies, there has been a shortage of venues for academics wishing to publish scholarly research on Canadian culture and society. TOPIA fills this gap, while exploring ideas, issues and debates that are relevant in many international contexts.
- TOPIA emphasizes Canadian concerns and encourages multiple Canadian and transnational perspectives, traditions, and debates.
- TOPIA is a peer-reviewed journal.
- TOPIA is conscious of the need for historical research and writing. Cultural studies offers intellectual and theoretical resources that enrich and inform historical writing, and benefits in turn from insights offered by informed re-readings of history.
- TOPIA explores the
question of disciplinarity as a methodological and sociological issue,
providing a place for scholars to reflect on the implications of
crossing disciplines while taking into account the specific locations
of their intellectual work.
Areas of research relevant to TOPIA are: the historical, institutional, and aesthetic formation of Canadian culture; analysis of visual art, film, television, music, literature and popular culture in Canada; the sociology of museums, galleries and the art market; the evolution of environmental geopolitics, city planning, architecture, landscape and new approaches to nature; cultural studies of science and technology; social, cultural and spatial configurations of new technologies; Canada's cultural industries; nationalism, multiculturalism, and the contemporary nation-state in the era of global integration. What unites these very diverse areas of investigation is the central role played by culture in contemporary social transformation.
The journal gratefully acknowledges assistance from the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, the Office of the Vice President (Academic), The Office of the Associate Vice President (Research), the Office of Research Administration, the Dean of Arts, York University; and the Office of the Dean of Arts, Ryerson University.
TOPIA is published twice a year by Wilfrid Laurier University Press and Cape Breton University Press
ISSN 1206-0143 (Print), ISSN 1916-0194 (Online)TOPIA is abstracted / indexed in the following publications:
- Canadian Reference Centre (EBSCO)
- Academic Search Premier
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
- Canadian Business and
Current Affairs Database (CBCA)
TOPIA is on sale at the York University Bookstore
Statement of Purpose
TOPIA provides a venue for current research in cultural studies in Canada and beyond. We publish original research and theoretical essays on culture that are accessible to a wide readership in the humanities and social sciences, along with cultural and political debates, commentaries and book reviews. TOPIA builds on Canadian critical traditions encompassing space, time, identity and culture, while encouraging multiple regional, national and transnational perspectives. Areas of research relevant to TOPIA include analysis of popular culture, visual and auditory culture, media, and literature; the historical, institutional and aesthetic formation of Canadian and
postcolonial culture; cultural memory, museums, galleries, archives, and the fine arts; environmental cultural studies, including but not limited to urban environments, material cultures, biopolitics, city planning, architecture, landscape, human- animal relations and posthumanism; technocultural studies; global cultural industries;
nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and the contemporary nation state in the era of global integration. TOPIA unites these diverse areas of cultural studies in an interdisciplinary context.
The journal defines its mandate as distinct in four respects:
- Its positive but not exclusive commitment to work on Canadian perspectives and issues
- Its commitment to historical research and interdisciplinary writing in cultural studies
- Boundary-breaking writing ("Offerings") and a comprehensive book review section
- Its dedication to a rigorous peer review process to strengthen interdisciplinary research and writing, and to provide a forum for new and established scholars in the field of cultural studies
How to Contact Us
Editorial address:
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
TEL Building Rm 3010
88 The Pond Road
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
ph. (416) 736-2100 ext # 22238
Fax: (416) 736-5392
e-mail: topia@yorku.ca
Subscription address:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3C5
Telephone: (519) 884-0710 extension 6124
Fax: (519) 725-1399
E-mail: press@press.wlu.ca
Editor:
Jody Berland (Division of Humanities, York University)Assistant Editor:
Mike Hunter (University College of Cape Breton)
Note: submissions must be sent to TOPIA office at the above address.
Book Review Editor:
Kate Eichhorn
Eugene Lang College
The New School
65 W. 11th St.
New York, NY, 10011
E-mail: eichhorc@newschool.edu
Associate Book Review Editor
Peter van Wyck
Concordia University
E-mail: pvanwyck@alcor.concordia.ca
Assistants and Volunteers
Editorial Assistants
Margo Gouley
Steven Logan
Rob Kerford
Web Manager
Steven Logan
How to advertise in TOPIA
TOPIA accepts appropriate advertisements.
Half page(4 5/8'' x 3 10/16")
$145 Full page (4 5/8'' x 7 1/4'' ) $200
Ads can be supplied as a tiff, jpeg or pdf with minimum 300 dip.
For further details, contact Steven Logan