TOPIA (TOPIA)
Journal Descriptions
TOPIA provides a venue for current research in cultural studies in Canada and beyond. TOPIA emphasizes Canadian concerns and encourages multiple Canadian and transnational perspectives, traditions, and debates. 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, interviews and book reviews. TOPIA builds on Canadian critical traditions encompassing space, time, identity, and culture, while encouraging multiple regional, national, and transnational perspectives. TOPIA explores the question of methods, providing a place for scholars to reflect on the implications of crossing disciplines while considering the specific locations of their intellectual work. Areas of research relevant to TOPIA include: critical cultural studies; critical race theory; Indigeneity; decolonial, settler and postcolonial formations; nationalism, citizenship, multiculturalism, diaspora, and the Canadian nation state; gender and sexuality; popular and literary culture; cultural memory, museums, galleries, archives, and aesthetics; visuality, haptics, sound, and media; material cultures; biopolitics; city planning, architecture, landscape, and environmental studies; critical human-animal relations and posthumanism; digital cultures, platform studies, and artificial intelligence; the culture industries. The journal is committed to: Its positive but not exclusive commitment to work on Canadian perspectives and issues 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
TOPIA (TOPIA) is :-
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International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Critical Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, Critical Race Theory, Indigeneity, Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Nationalism and Diaspora Studies, Media and Visual Culture, Literary and Popular Culture, Museum and Memory Studies, Urban and Environmental Studies, Critical Human–Animal Studies, Posthumanism, Digital Cultures, Platform Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Biopolitics , Online or Print , Bi-Annual Journal
- UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 1206-0143, E-ISSN: 1916-0194, Established: 1997,
- Provides Crossref DOI
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Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE