[ecrea] TOPIA CFPs: The Financialized Imagination, Cultural Studies of the North

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TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies seeks contributions for two 
special theme issues: The Financialized Imagination and Beyond and 
Theory in a Cold Climate: Cultural Studies of the Canadian North. 
(Submission guidelines are below)


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The Financialized Imagination and Beyond (Fall 2013)

Edited by Max Haiven (New York University/Nova Scotia College of Art and 
Design University) and Jody Berland (York University)


Finance has gained tremendous power over the global economy in recent 
years. Critics describe ?financialization? as a profound and 
far-reaching social and cultural shift. Advances in financial modelling, 
computing and communications technology have changed the nature and 
power of financial speculation, but the vast expansion of new forms of 
debt, credit and everyday financial services have also had dramatic 
impacts on daily life. While the politics of debt, predatory lending and 
speculative capital have long shaped geopolitical realities, especially 
in the developing world, the unapologetic ?age of austerity? threatens a 
new intensity of inequality and exploitation, with dramatic human and 
ecological consequences. In the face of continuous global financial 
crises and new social movements emerging to contest this ?age of 
austerity,? this special TOPIA issue will ask important questions about 
the financialized imagination.


Prospective authors should submit a 300-word proposal, accompanied by a 
brief biographical note, to the editors by September 14, 2012. Contact 
Max Haiven at (maxhaiven /at/ nyu.edu), and Jody Berland at (jberland /at/ yorku.ca).


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Theory in a Cold Climate: Cultural Studies of the Canadian North (Fall 2013)

Edited by Peter C. van Wyck (Concordia University)


At this moment in time, the North has (again) become of great cultural 
interest: as a fraught site of considerable importance to pressing 
questions of sovereignty; a key site in the equally fraught discourses 
of climate change; an untapped and increasingly accessible field of 
natural resources; and, as we reach the end of the Third International 
Polar Year activities, the site of renewed scientific research and 
funding. Yet, with a few notable exceptions, the community of scholars 
working in the domain of cultural theory has not had much to say about 
the North?an abiding topic in other areas such as literary studies, 
environmental history and ethnography.  This special issue of TOPIA: 
Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies will address the curious silence 
there has been among those of us clustered about les sciences humaines 
concerning the North


Prospective authors should submit a 300-word proposal, accompanied by a 
brief biographical note, to the editor by October 19, 2012. Contact 
Peter C. van Wyck at (pvanwyck /at/ alcor.concordia.ca).


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General submission guidelines


TOPIA welcomes three types of submissions for the above theme issues:

    *  ?Articles?: up to 9,000 words (peer reviewed)
    * ?Offerings?: up to 3000 words, including photo essays, 
interviews, dialogues and other inquiries (peer reviewed)
    * ?Reviews?: book reviews of 1,500?2,000 words, review essays of 
2,500?3,500 words

Please direct article and offering proposals related to the Issue 
Editors. Please direct book-review proposals to Book Review Editor Adam 
Muller at (Adam.Muller /at/ ad.umanitoba.ca).

More information on TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies and the 
journal's submission process can be found at TOPIA?s website, 
www.yorku.ca/topia. Please note that all submissions must be uploaded to 
the TOPIA website, including any images (with permissions secured), 
following the TOPIA style guidelines outlined on the website. General 
queries can be directed to (topia /at/ yourku.ca).



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Jody Berland, Editor, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
c/o Department of Humanities
240 Vanier College
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON  M3J 1P3
www.yorku.ca/topia
http://www.yorku.ca/jberland



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