期刊名称：TOPIA-CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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.
Focus and Scope
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.
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
Delayed Open Access
The contents of this journal will be available in an open access format 24 month(s) after an issue is published.
TOPIA provides open access to its content with a two year embargo. The current two years are available to subscribers online and in print. Non-subscribers can purchase instant access to individual articles for $6.00 (CAD). The current print-based issue is available for purchase online by clicking HERE and is also on sale at the York University Bookstore. TOPIA is published twice a year.
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Instructions to Authors
Editorial Focus
Scholarly papers on all aspects of cultural studies will be considered. While maintaining a strong Canadian orientation, TOPIA is a venue for dialogue among researchers who share similar concerns and questions of culture, nationality, technologies and the politics of space. The journal publishes historical and theoretical essays on culture, accessible to a wide readership in the humanities and social sciences. We are also committed to publishing cultural and political debates, book and conference reviews, and cultural policy reports.Submission Length
Manuscripts are normally 20-25 double-spaced pages (around 9000 words) in length. Offerings may be submitted up to 10 pages in length (no more than 3000 words). Book reviews should be approximately 1500-2000 words for a single book, 2500-3500 for a review essay.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in a compatible Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.
- All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://www.yorku.ca/topia) are activated and ready to click.
- Please include any digital images as tiffs or jpegs with a minimum 300 dpi. They should be included in the text of your article AND uploaded as individual files with your submission.
- The text is double-spaced; between 20-25 pages (around 9000 words) in length; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in TOPIA's Style Guide.
- The text has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Editorial Board
Canadian Book Review Editor
International Book Review Editor
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