Global Debates in the Digital Humanities

Domenico Fiormonte is lecturer in sociology of communication and culture at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Roma Tre, Italy. He is author of Per una critica del testo digitale: Filologia, letteratura e rete (Towards a Critique of the Digital Text: Philology, Literature, and the Internet) and coauthor of The Digital Humanist: A Critical Inquiry. Sukanta Chaudhuri is professor emeritus of English at Jadavpur University, India. His most recent monograph is The Metaphysics of Text. He was chief coordinator of Bichitra, an online variorum site of the works of Rabindranath Tagore, and editor of Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum. He is currently coordinating a computerized historical dictionary of the Bengali language.Paola Ricaurte is associate professor in the School of Humanities and Education at TecnolÓgico de Monterrey, Mexico, and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. She is cofounder (with Nick Couldry and Ulises MejÍas) of Tierra ComÚn, a network to promote reflection on data colonialism from the Global South.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDomenico Fiormonte, Paola Ricaurte, and Sukanta ChaudhuriPart I: Global Histories of Digital Humanities1. Epistemically Produced InvisibilitySayan Bhattacharyya2. Alternative Histories of Digital Humanities: Tracing the Archival TurnPuthiya Purayil Sneha3. Can the Subaltern “Do” DH? A Reflection on the Challenges and Opportunities for the Digital HumanitiesErnesto Priego4. Peering Beyond the Pink Tent: Queer of Color Critique across the Digital Indian OceanRahul K. Gairola5. The History and Context of the Digital Humanities in RussiaInna Kizhner, Melissa Terras, Lev Manovich, Boris Orekhov, Igor Kim, Maxim Rumyantsev, and Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya6. Debating and Developing Digital Humanities in China: New or Old?Jing Chen and Lik Hang Tsui7. How We Became Digital: The Recent History of Digital Humanities in PolandMaciej Maryl8. Social Sciences and Digital Humanities of the South: Materials for a Critical DiscussionNuria RodrÍguez-OrtegaPart II: Exploring and Practicing Global Digital Humanities9. Mining Verbal Data from Early Bengali Newspapers and Magazines: Contemplating the PossibilitiesPurbasha Auddy10. Digital Brush Talk: Challenges and Potential Connections in East Asian Digital ResearchAliz Horvath11. “It Functions, and That’s (Almost) All”: Tagging the TalmudItay Marienberg-Milikowsky12. What’s Trending in the Chinese Google Books Corpus? A Google Ngram Analysis of the Chinese Language Area (1950–2008)Carlton Clark, Lei Zhang, and Steffen Roth13. In Tlilli in Tlapalli / In Xochitl in Cuicatl: The Representation of Other Mexican Literatures through Digital MediaErnesto Miranda Trigueros14. No “Making,” Not Now: Decolonizing Digital Humanities in South AsiaDibyadyuti Roy and Nirmala Menon15. Digital Humanities and Memory Wars in Contemporary RussiaSofia Gavrilova16. Borderlands Archives Cartography: Bridging Personal, Political, and Geographical BorderlandsMaira E. Álvarez and Sylvia FernÁndez Quintanilla17. Developing New Literacy Skills and Digital Scholarship Infrastructures in the Global South: A Case StudyMarÍa JosÉ Afanador-Llach and Andres Lombana-Bermudez 18. Manuscripts Written by Women in New Spain and the Challenge of Digitization: An Experiment in Academic AutoethnographyDiana Barreto ÁvilaPart III: Beyond Digital Humanities19. Digital Humanities and Visible and Invisible InfrastructuresGimena del Rio Riande20. Site-Specific Cultural Infrastructure: Promoting Access and Conquering the Digital DivideJuan Steyn and Andre Goodrich21. On Gambiarras: Technical Improvisations À la BrazilCarolina Dalla Chiesa and Leonardo Foletto22. Messy Empowerment: Mapping Digital Encounters in the MarginsAnita Gurumurthy and Deepti Bharthur23. On Language, Gender, and Digital TechnologiesTim Unwin24. Africa’s Digitalization: From the Ecological Dilemma to the Decolonization of the ImaginaryCÉdric LetermeContributors