A guide to resources on cultural theory and critical studies. Includes tips on incorporating theory into your research and practice, suggested readings, critical journals, and databases.
TOPIA's mandate is to provide a venue for critical research in cultural studies in Canada and beyond. TOPIA publishes original, peer-reviewed research and theoretical essays on culture that are accessible to a wide readership in the humanities and social sciences. Areas of research relevant to this mandate include the historical, institutional and aesthetic formation of Canadian and postcolonial culture; indigenous studies; cultural memory; and environmental cultural studies. TOPIA publishes two issues per year and is available by subscription in print and online.
Public Art Dialogue, the journal, serves as a forum for critical discourse and commentary about the practice of public art defined as broadly as possible to include: memorials, object art, murals, urban and landscape design projects, social interventions, performance art, and web-based work. Public Art Dialogue is a scholarly journal, welcoming of new and experimental modes of inquiry and production. Most issues are theme-based, and each features both peer-reviewed articles and artists' projects.
n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal is a biannual academic journal covering feminist art criticism and the work of women artists since the 1970s.
"Provides innovative feminist perspectives on film, television, & visual media. Includes debates, essays, interviews, & summary pieces which encompass a wide spectrum of media practices."
"Peer reviewed forum for examining the creative ferment of critical social and political thought with the goal of setting the international agenda for radical philosophy and social criticism for the future."
"Provides a narrative bibliography of published work, recording significant debates and issues of interest across a broad range of research in the humanities and social sciences"
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