Critical infrastructure studies and digital humanities / Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liu, Alan, 1953- editor.

Pawlicka-Deger, Urszula, 1987- editor.

Smithies, James (Lecturer in digital humanities), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital humanities.

Humanities--Research.

Humanities.

Digital media.

digital humanities.

Physical Description:

xlix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. “Object of study”: digital humanities and critical infrastructure studies / Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies

Interfaces for the Anthropocene / Anne Beaulieu

Replatforming / Susan Brown

Networking the nation: settler colonialism as an analytic in critical infrastructure studies / Sarah Montoya

Manifesting connection: digital humanities for the critical study of logistics / Matthew Hockenberry

Critical studies of tech stacks: what can technologies tell us about a lab culture? / Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Arianna Ciula, and Miguel Vieira

Shadow libraries and pirate infrastructures / Martin Paul Eve

Digital humanities and the energetics of big data / Javier Cha and Ian M. Miller

Alternative infrastructures for digital equity: community-based internet access / Alex Wermer-Colan, Grant Wythoff, Allan Gomez, and Devren Washington

Understanding multilingualism in digital humanities infrastructures / Paul Spence

What’s missing: studying digital humanities and critical infrastructure in India / Maya Dodd and Sharika Parmar

Connecting digital systems by whom and for whom? taking stock of the digital humanities infrastructures in China / Lik Hang Tsui and Jing Chen

Reproducibility and contestation in humanities digital infrastructure / Deb Verhoeven, Mike Jones, Toby Burrows, and Ann Borda

Scrounging / Darren Wershler

Resisting BYOI (bring your own infrastructure) in digital humanities learning spaces / Kush Patel, Ashley Caranto Morford, and Arun Jacob (Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed Collective)

Making infrastructure writable / Lucie Kolb

Online feminist publishing and content creation as feminist infrastructure in India / Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Saumyaa Naidu

Digital humanities from below: speculating on solidarity infrastructure / Matthew N. Hannah and Miriam Posner

Imagining a future of multimedia e-books / Sylvia K. Miller

Subjective functions: how should humanistic research be quantified? / Kyle Booten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1517916089

9781517916084

1517916070

9781517916077

OCLC:

1527588311