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.
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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complete list of
current and back
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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
