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Book SynopsisA necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
Often conceived of as an all-inclusive “big tent,” digital humanities has in fact been troubled by a lack of perspectives beyond Westernized and Anglophone contexts and assumptions. This latest collection in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series seeks to address this deficit in the field. Focused on thought and work that has been underappreciated for linguistic, cultural, or geopolitical reasons, contributors showcase alternative histories and perspectives that detail the rise of the digital humanities in the Global South and other “invisible” contexts and explore the implications of a globally diverse digital humanities.
Advancing a vision of the digital humanities as a space where we can reimagine basic questions about our cultural and historical development, this volume challenges the field to undertake innovation and reform.
Contributors: Maria José Afanador-Llach, U de los Andes, Bogotá; Maira E. Álvarez, U of Houston; Purbasha Auddy, Jadavpur U; Diana Barreto Ávila, U of British Columbia; Deepti Bharthur, IT for Change; Sayan Bhattacharyya, Singapore U of Technology and Design; Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya, National Research U Higher School of Economics; Jing Chen, Nanjing U; Carlton Clark, Kazimieras Simonavičius U, Vilnius; Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Erasmus U, Rotterdam; Gimena del Rio Riande, Institute of Bibliographic Research and Textual Criticism; Leonardo Foletto, U of São Paulo; Rahul K. Gairola, Murdoch U; Sofia Gavrilova, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography; Andre Goodrich, North-West U; Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change; Aliz Horvath, Eötvös Loránd U; Igor Kim, Russian Academy of Sciences; Inna Kizhner, Siberian Federal U; Cédric Leterme, Tricontinental Center; Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Pontificia, U Javeriana, Bogotá; Lev Manovich, City U of New York; Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev; Maciej Maryl, Polish Academy of Sciences; Nirmala Menon, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore; Boris Orekhov, National Research U Higher School of Economics; Ernesto Priego, U of London; Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, U of Kansas; Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega, U of Málaga; Steffen Roth, U of Turku; Dibyadyuti Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur; Maxim Rumyantsev, Siberian Federal U; Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru; Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources; Melissa Terras, U of Edinburgh; Ernesto Miranda Trigueros, U of the Cloister of Sor Juana; Lik Hang Tsui, City U of Hong Kong; Tim Unwin, U of London; Lei Zhang, U of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Domenico Fiormonte, Paola Ricaurte, and Sukanta Chaudhuri
Part I: Global Histories of Digital Humanities
1. Epistemically Produced Invisibility
Sayan Bhattacharyya
2. Alternative Histories of Digital Humanities: Tracing the Archival Turn
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
3. Can the Subaltern “Do” DH? A Reflection on the Challenges and Opportunities for the Digital Humanities
Ernesto Priego
4. Peering Beyond the Pink Tent: Queer of Color Critique across the Digital Indian Ocean
Rahul K. Gairola
5. The History and Context of the Digital Humanities in Russia
Inna Kizhner, Melissa Terras, Lev Manovich, Boris Orekhov, Igor Kim, Maxim Rumyantsev, and Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya
6. Debating and Developing Digital Humanities in China: New or Old?
Jing Chen and Lik Hang Tsui
7. How We Became Digital: The Recent History of Digital Humanities in Poland
Maciej Maryl
8. Social Sciences and Digital Humanities of the South: Materials for a Critical Discussion
Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega
Part II: Exploring and Practicing Global Digital Humanities
9. Mining Verbal Data from Early Bengali Newspapers and Magazines: Contemplating the Possibilities
Purbasha Auddy
10. Digital Brush Talk: Challenges and Potential Connections in East Asian Digital Research
Aliz Horvath
11. “It Functions, and That’s (Almost) All”: Tagging the Talmud
Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky
12. What’s Trending in the Chinese Google Books Corpus? A Google Ngram Analysis of the Chinese Language Area (1950–2008)
Carlton Clark, Lei Zhang, and Steffen Roth
13. In Tlilli in Tlapalli / In Xochitl in Cuicatl: The Representation of Other Mexican Literatures through Digital Media
Ernesto Miranda Trigueros
14. No “Making,” Not Now: Decolonizing Digital Humanities in South Asia
Dibyadyuti Roy and Nirmala Menon
15. Digital Humanities and Memory Wars in Contemporary Russia
Sofia Gavrilova
16. Borderlands Archives Cartography: Bridging Personal, Political, and Geographical Borderlands
Maira E. Álvarez and Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla
17. Developing New Literacy Skills and Digital Scholarship Infrastructures in the Global South: A Case Study
María José Afanador-Llach and Andres Lombana-Bermudez
18. Manuscripts Written by Women in New Spain and the Challenge of Digitization: An Experiment in Academic Autoethnography
Diana Barreto Ávila
Part III: Beyond Digital Humanities
19. Digital Humanities and Visible and Invisible Infrastructures
Gimena del Rio Riande
20. Site-Specific Cultural Infrastructure: Promoting Access and Conquering the Digital Divide
Juan Steyn and Andre Goodrich
21. On Gambiarras: Technical Improvisations à la Brazil
Carolina Dalla Chiesa and Leonardo Foletto
22. Messy Empowerment: Mapping Digital Encounters in the Margins
Anita Gurumurthy and Deepti Bharthur
23. On Language, Gender, and Digital Technologies
Tim Unwin
24. Africa’s Digitalization: From the Ecological Dilemma to the Decolonization of the Imaginary
Cédric Leterme
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