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

Author
Risam, Roopika
Additional Titles
Postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy
Published
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
© 2019
Physical Description
viii, 176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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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.
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.
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ISBN
9780810138858 (pbk.)
0810138859
9780810138865 (cloth)
0810138867
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-169) and index.
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