期刊名称:TOPIA-CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

ISSN:1206-0143
出版频率:Annual
出版社:UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, JOURNALS DIVISION, 5201 DUFFERIN ST, DOWNSVIEW, TORONTO, CANADA, ON, M3H 5T8
期刊网址:http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/index
影响因子: 0.167(2015年) 0.020(2014年) 0.035(2013年) 0.028 (2012年)
主题范畴: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

Cover Page

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

Indexing

  • Canadian Reference Centre (EBSCO)
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
  • Canadian Business and Current Affairs Database (CBCA)

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.

  1. 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).
  2. The submission file is in a compatible Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.
  3. All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://www.yorku.ca/topia) are activated and ready to click.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in TOPIA's Style Guide.
  7. 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

Co-Editors

  1. Jody Berland, York University, Canada
  2. Lily Cho, York University, Canada

Canadian Book Review Editor

  1. Stephen Cain, York University, Canada

International Book Review Editor

  1. Joel McKim, Birkbeck, University of London

Managing Editor

  1. Jeremy Mathers, York University, Canada

Editorial Assistants

  1. Holly Barclay, York University
  2. Deanna Henderson, York University
  3. Angie Wong, York University

Editorial Board

Charles Acland, Concordia University, Canada

Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Ian Angus, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Robert Babe, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Bruce Barber, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Canada

Darin Barney, McGill University, Canada

Alison Beale, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Nandi Bhatia, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Bruce Braun, City University of New York, United States

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