The Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) was founded in 2008 by a group of scholars to promote the study of and research in young peoples’ cultures and texts, in Canada and internationally, across a range of disciplines, and to build an understanding of such scholarship that defines “young people,” “culture,” and “text” broadly. Its secondary aim is to create interdisciplinary spaces for advocates, activists, and scholars to exchange research on young people’s texts and cultures, and to create opportunities for collaborations between academic scholars and members of community organizations that work with young people’s texts and cultures. Led by President Peter Cumming, the association is currently managed within and supported by the Children’s Studies Program at York University.

Activities of the association have so far included online discussions on a listserv, annual meetings, publication in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures and joint sessions hosted by the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) at the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our joint session in Montreal this year focused on young people’s cultures and social justice; childhood and nature; the child and the city; and, in the form of a roundtable, participatory ontologies and youth cultures. The contributions to this roundtable will be published in Issue 2.2 (Winter 2010) of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, and the forum (along with all review essays) are open access.

Membership in the association is open to any cultural producer, academic, professional, or interested person engaged in the production, research, teaching, or study of young people’s texts and cultures.

Current Executive:

President
Peter E. Cumming (York University)
cummingp@yorku.ca

Past President
Mavis Reimer (University of Winnipeg)
m.reimer@uwinnipeg.ca

Secretary / Treasurer
Michelle Superle (York University)
msuperle@yorku.ca

Members-at-Large
Stuart Poyntz (Simon Fraser University)
spoyntz@sfu.ca
Louise Saldanha (Grande Prairie Regional College)
LSaldanha@GPRC.ab.ca

Graduate Student Representative
Jamie Paris (University of British Columbia)
jamie.paris@gmail.com

Download ARCYP’s constitution here.

Download the ARCYP brochure here.