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John Armitage
Head of
Multidisciplinary Studies
School of Social,
Political,
Economic and Social
Sciences
University of Northumbria
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST, UK.
Tel: 0191 227
4971
Fax: 0191 227 4654
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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. This is the first of possibly two e-mails that you will be receiving as a part of TOPIA Campaign 500. If you would like to be removed from our mailing list, please write: [log in to unmask]. | ||
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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.
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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? |
Previously published and upcoming articles... Anne Whitelaw Martin Allor Ien Ang and Jon Stratton Jean Morency Cate Sandilands Heather Smythe Steven Crocker Adrian Ivachiv L. M. Findlay Elizabeth Seaton Murray Forman Line Grenier Tony Mitchell Kay Armatage Katherine McKittrick David Jefferess |