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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.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The postcolonial digital cultural record
• 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.

Author/Creator:

Risam, Roopika , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

New digital worlds: postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy [by Risam, R.]

Subjects:

Postcolonialism — Study and teaching

Postcolonialism in literature

Digital humanities

Digital humanities — Study and teaching

Postcolonialism

Study skills

General Notes:

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

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

PN56.P555 R57 2019

ISBNs:

9780810138858 (pbk.)
0810138859
9780810138865 (cloth)
0810138867
9780810138872 (ebook) [Invalid]
0810138875
9780810138872

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018024920

OCLC Numbers:

1039435063