New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy - Couverture souple

Risam, Roopika

 
9780810138858: New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0810138859 ISBN 13 : 9780810138858
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The emergence of digital humanities has been heralded for its commitment to openness, access, and the democratizing of knowledge, but it raises a number of questions about omissions with respect to race, gender, sexuality, disability, and nation. Postcolonial digital humanities is one approach to uncovering and remedying inequalities in digital knowledge production, which is implicated in an information-age politics of knowledge.

New Digital Worlds traces the formation of postcolonial studies and digital humanities as fields, identifying how they can intervene in knowledge production in the digital age. Roopika Risam examines the role of colonial violence in the development of digital archives and the possibilities of postcolonial digital archives for resisting this violence. Offering a reading of the colonialist dimensions of global organizations for digital humanities research, she explores efforts to decenter these institutions by emphasizing the local practices that subtend global formations and pedagogical approaches that support this decentering. Last, Risam attends to human futures in new digital worlds, evaluating both how algorithms and natural language processing software used in digital humanities projects produce universalist notions of the "human" and also how to resist this phenomenon.

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À propos de l?auteur

ROOPIKA RISAM is an assistant professor of English at Salem State University, where she examines the intersections of postcolonial studies, African diaspora studies, and digital humanities. She codirects several digital projects, including the Harlem Shadows Project, Digital Salem, and the NEH- and IMLS-funded Networking the Regional Comprehensives.

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810138859
ISBN 13 
9780810138858
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Nombre de pages
176
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ISBN 10 :  0810138867 ISBN 13 :  9780810138865
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2018
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