[eccr] (Re)Introducing TOPIA

>Dear Colleagues,
>(with apologies for repetition and a request to please circulate)
>
>TOPIA has been a crossroads of Canadian cultural studies since it first 
>appeared in 1997.  Published biannually, TOPIA's purpose has been to 
>provide a venue for the latest research in cultural studies for scholars 
>who share a concern with cultures, nationalities, technologies, media, 
>forms of identity, and the politics of space. We have a Canadian 
>orientation accessible to readers with a background in the social sciences 
>or the humanities, but welcome historical or theoretical essays that 
>address a transnational readership. We are also committed to publishing 
>cultural and political debates, polemical or poetical "offerings," book 
>and conference reviews, and cultural policy studies.  A theme issue on 
>Technology and Culture will be published Spring 2004.  For more 
>information, including back tables of contents, our new editorial address 
>at York University, our brochure in
>PDF file format and a subscription form, visit www.yorku.ca/topia/
>
>TOPIA has succeeded in involving scholars of every generation from every 
>region of the country.  It draws together ideas and voices from many 
>disciplines and creates new resources for dialogue and debate. If you wish 
>to remain active and informed in current cultural studies scholarship, or 
>to publish your own work in an interdisciplinary Canadian print journal, 
>Topia will be an important part of your personal library.  You are also an 
>important part of Topia's expansion.   We hope you will join us in shaping 
>the future of scholarly communication by subscribing today.  We need 
>individual and institutional subscribers to continue expanding our 
>readership.   Your library may wish to subscribe and to complete the 
>collection by purchasing a set of back issues (for details, see 
>http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/  ----->Click on Journals, then TOPIA).
>
>Every single supporter--every single subscription--is essential to the the 
>journal and to the continuing multi-disciplinary and multi-regional 
>enrichment of cultural studies across the country and abroad.  This is a 
>fertile and lively space for which the journal provides an accessible and 
>widely respected source of ideas and connections.  Tap into the pulse of 
>creative cultural critique!  Become part of a growing network of critical 
>thinkers engaged with contemporary thought.  We ask you to preserve a 
>space for TOPIA among Canadian scholarly journals by reserving your place 
>today.
>
>In "For a Scholarship with Commitment," Pierre Bourdieu said that "the 
>collective intellectual can play its unique role, by helping to create the 
>social conditions for the collective production of realistic 
>utopias."  Surely the scholarly work of rethinking ideas about culture, 
>and the publication of critical research on culture and society, is a 
>contribution to this role.
>
>Thank you for helping to preserve TOPIA.
>
>With all best wishes,
>
>TOPIA Advisory Board
>Jody Berland, Barbara Godard, Bob Hanke, Ilan Kapoor, Shahnaz Khan, 
>Herbert Pimlott, Cate Sandilands, Roger Simon.
>
>Reserve your Place and Preserve this Space (www.yorku.ca/topia/)
><mailto:(Topia /at/ yorku.ca)>(Topia /at/ yorku.ca)
>
>TOPIA: Tables of Contents
>
>Issue Eight- Fall 2002
>Gary Genosko, Samir Gandesha & Kristina Marcellus, A Crucible of Critical 
>Interdisciplinary: The Toronto Telos Group.
>Erna MacLeod, Ashley MacIsaac: Star Image, Queer Identity and the Politics 
>of Outing.
>Kevin Dowler, Television and Objecthood.
>Robert Luke, Habit@Online: Web Portals as Purchasing Ideologies
>Grant Havers, George Grant and Leo Strauss: Modernist and Postmodernist 
>Conservatisms
>Reviews by Zoe Druick, Jeremy Stolow, Brian Osborne, Tamara Vulcov, William
>Echard, Engin Isin and Guy Letts, Josephine Mills, Carole Gerson.
>
>Issue Nine - Spring 2003 (now in partnership with Wilfrid Laurier 
>University Press)
>Editorial
>Robert Babe, Cultural Studies and Political Economy Column: Money and Culture
>Len Findlay, Content Providers of the World Unite! A Critical Canadian
>Analysis and Agenda.
>Leslie Regan Shade, G-Men Redux: Total Information Awareness and the Threat
>to the Public Interest.Tony Tremblay, Reading the Real: Unearthing 
>Survivor's Republican Roots.
>Bruce Erickson, The Colonial Climbs of Mount Trudeau: Thinking Masculinity
>Through the Homosocial.
>Bjorn Ekeberg, Life in Transit - A Global Condition.
>Carol Corbin, Bridging Rhetoric and Cultural Studies: Michael Calvin McGee 
>(1943-2002).
>Review Essays:
>Michael Dorland, 'Money for nothing; things for free': The dire straits of 
>contemporary cultural policy analysis?
>Elena Basile: Deterritorializing the Nation: Italic Writing and the 
>Transcultural Politics of Ethnicity.
>Reviews by Mike Hunter, Francois Gagnon, Ilya Parkins, Rhiannon Bury, 
>Lachlan Story.
>
>Forthcoming in Issue Ten - Fall 2003
>
>Edward Comor: Empire and Time.
>Ian Angus: The Paradox of Identity in English Canada.
>Alison Calder and Dana Medero: Ethics, Activism, and the Rise of 
>Interdisciplinary Animal Studies:An Interview with Cary Wolfe.
>Julie Rak: Do Witness: Don't: a Womans Word and Trauma as Pedagogy.
>Jody Berland: "Are you interested in helping shape the future of scholarly 
>communication in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 
>ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Canada?": Progress in print.
>Ilan Kapoor, In Memoriam: Edward W Said.
>Review Essays:
>Gary Genosko, A Tale of Two Virtuals.
>Misao Dean, Re-inscriptions of Nineteenth Century Popular Culture.
>Asha Varadharajan, Challenging 'Democratic Racism'.
>Reviews by Steve Bailey, Gary McCarron, Katherine Bischoping, Sarah 
>Brophy, Clara Saccheti.

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