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From: Yolande Daley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 May 2002 02:08
Subject: Introducing TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies





Northrop Frye claimed that the question is not who are we, but where is
here? Marshall McLuhan wrote that Canada is a land of multiple borderlines,
psychic, social and geographic. For them, as for us, Canada's culture cannot
be separated from how it is written and enacted.

Today cultural studies has become the topical intersection in which people
debate critical issues of culture, identity, politics, representations,
technologies, and the spaces in which all these are lived. Read on to learn
about Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, where you can join us in
writing the history of the present.

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Cultural studies is one of the fastest growing areas of research, teaching
and publishing in the academic world. In recent years there has been a
proliferation of international conferences and journals devoted to this new
field. While there have been journals published to reflect the promising
intellectual scope of cultural studies, none has a specific emphasis on
Canadian research. At present, there is a shortage of venues within or
outside Canada for academics wishing to publish scholarly research on
Canadian culture and society.

TOPIA fills this gap by providing a Canadian context for scholarly exchange,
research and debate on culture.

TOPIA provides a venue for current research and writing in the international
field of cultural studies.

TOPIA's editorial board is made up of over thirty scholars working across
disciplines from Canada, the United States, Australia and Latin America.

TOPIA provides a dialogue among researchers who share concerns about the
contemporary analysis of culture in relation to nationality, technology,
nature, discourse, media and the politics of space.

TOPIA publishes historical and theoretical essays on culture, accessible to
a wide readership in the humanities and social sciences, and is committed to
publishing cultural and political debates, book and conference reviews and
cultural policy studies.

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Editor:
Jody Berland
Faculty of Arts and Letters
Atkinson College, York University


Book Review Editor:
Barbara Godard
Department of English
Stong College, York University

Associate Book Review Editor:
Rebecca Sullivan
University of Calgary

Assistant Editor:
M.R. Hunter

Editorial Assistant:
Yolande Daley

Advisory Board
Barbara Godard (York University)
Bob Hanke (York University)
Ilan Kapoor (York University)
Cate Sandilands (York University)
Roger Simon (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto)
Imre Szeman (McMaster University)

Editorial Board
Charles Acland (Concordia University)
Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Bruce Barber (Nova Scotia College of Art & Design)
Alison Beale (Simon Fraser University)
Beverley Diamond (Memorial University)
Michael Dorland (Carleton University)
L.M. Findlay (University of Saskatchewan)
Noreen Golfman (Memorial University)
Lawrence Grossberg (North Carolina University)
Line Grenier (Universite de Montreal)
Lisa Henderson (University of Massachusetts)
Audrey Kobayashi (Queen's University)
Janine Marchessault (York University)
Graciela Martinez Zalce (UNAM, Mexico)
Ian McKay (Queen's University)
Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Heather Murray (University of Toronto)
Karl Neuenfeldt (Central Queensland University)
Christine Ramsay (University of Regina)
Julie Salverson (Queen's University)
Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University)
Elizabeth Seaton (York University)
Bart Simon (Concordia University)
Jennifer Daryl Slack (Michigan Technological University)
Will Straw (McGill University)
Charlotte Townsend-Gault (University of British Columbia)
Rinaldo Walcott (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto)
Andrew Wernick (Trent University)
Anne Whitelaw (University of Alberta)
John Willinsky (University of British Columbia)
George Yudice (New York University)



Content Providers of the World Unite! The Cultural Politics of Globalization


Special Theme Issue: #8 (Fall 2002) edited by Susie O'Brien and Imre Szeman

Depending on which accounts of globalization one reads, culture is either at
the centre of the new global economy, or it has been totally eclipsed by it.
Cultural objects and practices now appear as absolutely constitutive of
economic, political and social practices, yet as culture becomes reduced to
mass culture on an intensified, global scale, the liberatory and resistant
impulses once associated with it seem to have been fatally diminished.

The term "content providers" captures the paradoxical position of culture in
globalization. In the new global economy, culture has become "content," and
cultural workers and critics have become "content providers" whose work is
more essential to the operations of the economy than ever before, but only
as content that does nothing to challenge the structure or form of the new
world order. The papers in this issue address the challenges that
globalization poses for an adequate understanding of cultural politics and
the politics of culture today.

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Music and Memory at the Millennium: recently published!

Special Theme Issue: #6 (Fall 2001) edited by Jody Berland, William Echard
and Karen Pegley

Of all the arts, music is the medium that most constantly nurtures and
cajoles our memory, weaving together our personal and collective pasts. As
new technologies of dissemination fragment our musical experiences and
memories, what does this augur for our future in terms of culture, identity
or the sharing of social life?

This issue explores interactions between memory, technological change, and
the future of cultural tradition within diverse musical practices and
communities. A special on-line section features musical illustrations and
original compositions.

Previously published and upcoming articles...

Anne Whitelaw
Statistical Imperatives: Representing the Nation in Exhibitions of
Contemporary Art

Martin Allor
Locating Cultural Activity: The 'Main' as Chronotope and Heterotopia

Ien Ang and Jon Stratton
Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity
in Australia

Jean Morency
Forms of European Disconnection in Literature of the Americas

Cate Sandilands
A Flaneur in the Forest? Strolling Point Pelee with Walter Benjamin

Heather Smythe
The Mohawk Warrior: Reappropriating the Colonial Stereotype

Steven Crocker
Hauled Kicking and Screaming Into Modernity: Non-Synchronicity and Colonial
Modernization in Post-War Newfoundland

Adrian Ivachiv
Weathering Global Futures: Ecology, Economy, and the Unruly Tropics of the
'Global'

L. M. Findlay
All the World's a Stooge? Globalization as Aesthetic System

Elizabeth Seaton
The Commodification of Fear

Murray Forman
Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices
Among Somali Youth

Line Grenier
Governing "National" Memories through Popular Music in Quebec

Tony Mitchell
Memorializing Dusty Springfield: Millennial Mourning, Whiteness, Fandom and
the Seductive Voice

Kay Armatage
Fashion and Fetish in Canadian Cinema

Katherine McKittrick
Out Here: Some Thoughts on Black Canadian Geographies

David Jefferess
Neither Seen nor Heard: The idea of the "child" as impediment to the rights
of children






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