Editorial: The politics of evidence

Authors

Jody Berland

Jody Berland is professor in the department of Humanities and senior faculty associate of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University. She is author of North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space (2009), co-editor of Cultures of Militarization and other books, and co-editor of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (www.yorku.ca/topia).

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