New digital worlds : postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy / Roopika Risam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risam, Roopika, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism--Study and teaching.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Digital humanities.

Digital humanities--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: The postcolonial digital cultural record

The stakes of postcolonial digital humanities

Colonial violence and the postcolonial digital archive

Remaking the global worlds of digital humanities

Postcolonial digital pedagogy

Rethinking the human in digital humanities

Conclusion: A call to action.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-169) and index.

ISBN:

9780810138858

0810138859

9780810138865

0810138867

9780810138872

0810138875

OCLC:

1039435063