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How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world
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.
Contributors: Anne Beaulieu, U of Groningen; Kyle Booten, U of Connecticut; Ann Borda, U of Melbourne; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Toby Burrows, U of Western Australia; Ashley Caranto Morford, Weber State U; Javier Cha, U of Hong Kong; Jing Chen, Nanjing U; Arianna Ciula, King's College London; Maya Dodd, FLAME U, Pune, India; Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, U of London; Allan Gomez, Philly Community Wireless; Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue U; Matthew Hockenberry, Fordham U; Arun Jacob, U of Toronto; Mike Jones, U of Tasmania; Lucie Kolb, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW; Ian M. Miller, St. John's U, New York; Sylvia K. Miller, Duke U; Sarah Montoya, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow; Saumyaa Naidu, independent researcher; Sharika Parmar, FLAME U, Pune, India; Kush Patel, Srishti Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru; Miriam Posner, UCLA; Puthiya Purayil Sneha, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad; Paul Spence, King's College London; Lik Hang Tsui, City U of Hong Kong; Deb Verhoeven, U of Alberta; Miguel Vieira, King's College London; Devren Washington, Philly Community Wireless; Alex Wermer-Colan, Temple U and Philly Community Wireless; Darren Wershler, Concordia U; Grant Wythoff, Princeton U and Philly Community Wireless.
Contents
Contents
Introduction. "Object of Study": Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure Studies
Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies
Part I: Critical Infrastructure Studies (and Digital Humanities)
1. Interfaces for the Anthropocene
Anne Beaulieu
2. Replatforming
Susan Brown
3. Networking the Nation: Settler Colonialism as an Analytic in Critical Infrastructure Studies
Sarah Montoya
4. Manifesting Connection: Digital Humanities for the Critical Study of Logistics
Matthew Hockenberry
5. Critical Studies of Tech Stacks: What Can Technologies Tell Us About a Lab Culture?
Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Arianna Ciula, and Miguel Vieira
6. Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures
Martin Paul Eve
Part II: Digital Humanities (and Critical Infrastructure Studies)
7. Digital Humanities and the Energetics of Big Data
Javier Cha and Ian M. Miller
8. Alternative Infrastructures for Digital Equity: Community-Based Internet Access
Alex Wermer-Colan, Grant Wythoff, Allan Gomez, and Devren Washington
9. Understanding Multilingualism in Digital Humanities Infrastructures
Paul Spence
10. What's Missing: Studying Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure in India
Maya Dodd and Sharika Parmar
11. Connecting Digital Systems by Whom and for Whom? Taking Stock of the Digital Humanities Infrastructures in China
Lik Hang Tsui and Jing Chen
12. Reproducibility and Contestation in Humanities Digital Infrastructure
Deb Verhoeven, Mike Jones, Toby Burrows, and Ann Borda
13. Scrounging
Darren Wershler
Part III: (Re)envisioning Digital Humanities Infrastructure
14. 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)
15. Making Infrastructure Writable
Lucie Kolb
16. Online Feminist Publishing and Content Creation as Feminist Infrastructure in India
Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Saumyaa Naidu
17. Digital Humanities from Below: Speculating on Solidarity Infrastructure
Matthew N. Hannah and Miriam Posner
18. Imagining a Future of Multimedia E-books
Sylvia K. Miller
19. Subjective Functions: How Should Humanistic Research Be Quantified?
Kyle Booten
Appendix: Infrastructure Manifests
Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies, Editors
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