TOPIA provides a venue for critical research in cultural studies in Canada and beyond. The journal publishes original research and theoretical essays on culture that are accessible to a wide readership in the humanities and social sciences, along with critical clusters, offerings, and book reviews. TOPIA fosters the study of culture in relation to nationality, technology, nature, discourse, gender, race, media and the politics of space. Areas of research relevant to this mandate include: analysis of popular culture, visual and auditory culture, old and new media, and literature; the historical, institutional and aesthetic formation of Canadian and postcolonial culture; indigenous studies; 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 and technoscience studies; global cultural industries; nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and the contemporary nation state in the era of global integration. This work is connected by an interdisciplinary concern with the roles played by culture in historical and contemporary social transformation.
Submissions
To submit a manuscript to TOPIA, please click here.
Acknowledgements
The journal gratefully acknowledges assistance from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of Humanities, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, and the Dean of Arts, York University.
TOPIA is published twice a year by Wilfred Laurier University Press and Cape Breton University Press.
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)
Open Access Policy
TOPIA provides open access to its content with a two year embargo. Thecurrent two years are available in print only. The current print-based issue is also on sale at the York University Bookstore and on Amazon.ca.
Announcements
News: TOPIA 26: Bollywood and the South Asian Diaspora |
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We are pleased to announce the publication of TOPIA 26: Bollywood and the South Asian Diaspora, guest edited by Nandi Bhatia (University of Western Ontario). Click "More..." to see the table of contents. |
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| Posted: 2012-02-06 | More... |
Call For Papers: "Out of the Ruins: The University to Come" |
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This special issue of TOPIA seeks contributions (articles, offerings, review essays and book reviews) that reflect on the contemporary university and its discontents. Click "More..." to see the full call for papers. |
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| Posted: 2011-09-03 | More... |
News: Darin Barney's Article Published in the Huffington Post Canada |
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Darin Barney (McGill University) has recently published an article, "The End of the Canadian Wheat Board: What's at Stake?", in the Huffington Post Canada. Barney's essay "To Hear the Whistle Blow: Technology and Politics on the Battle River Branch Line" appears in the most recent issue of TOPIA, number 25. To read his Huffington Post article, please click here. |
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| Posted: 2011-08-28 | More... |
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