Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Domenico Fiormonte, Paola Ricaurte, and Sukanta Chaudhuri

Part I. Global Histories of Digital Humanities

1. Epistemically Produced Invisibility

Sayan Bhattacharyya

2. Alternative Histories of Digital Humanities: Tracing the Archival Turn

Puthiya Purayil Sneha

3. Can the Subaltern “Do” DH? A Reflection on the Challenges and Opportunities for the Digital Humanities

Ernesto Priego

4. Peering Beyond the Pink Tent: Queer of Color Critique across the Digital Indian Ocean

Rahul K. Gairola

5. The History and Context of the Digital Humanities in Russia

Inna Kizhner, Melissa Terras, Boris Orekhov, Lev Manovich, Igor Kim, Maxim Rumyantsev, and Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya

6. Debating and Developing Digital Humanities in China: New or Old?

Jing Chen and Lik Hang Tsui

7. How We Became Digital: The Recent History of Digital Humanities in Poland

Maciej Maryl

8. Digital Social Sciences and Digital Humanities of the South: Materials for a Critical Discussion

Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega

Part II. Exploring and Practicing Global Digital Humanities

9. Mining Verbal Data from Early Bengali Newspapers and Magazines: Contemplating the Possibilities

Purbasha Auddy

10. Digital Brush Talk: Challenges and Potential Connections in East Asian Digital Research

Aliz Horvath

11. “It Functions, and That’s (Almost) All”: Tagging the Talmud

Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky

12. 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 Roth

13. In Tlilli in Tlapalli / In Xochitl in Cuicatl: The Representation of Other Mexican Literatures through Digital Media

Ernesto Miranda Trigueros

14. No “Making,” Not Now: Decolonizing Digital Humanities in South Asia

Dibyadyuti Roy and Nirmala Menon

15. Digital Humanities and Memory Wars in Contemporary Russia

Sofia Gavrilova

16. Borderlands Archives Cartography: Bridging Personal, Political, and Geographical Borderlands

Maira E. Álvarez and Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla

17. Developing New Literacy Skills and Digital Scholarship Infrastructures in the Global South: A Case Study

María José Afanador-Llach and Andres Lombana-Bermudez

18. Manuscripts Written by Women in New Spain and the Challenge of Digitization: An Experiment in Academic Autoethnography

Diana Barreto Ávila

Part III. Beyond Digital Humanities

19. Digital Humanities and Visible and Invisible Infrastructures

Gimena del Rio Riande

20. Site-Specific Cultural Infrastructure: Promoting Access and Conquering the Digital Divide

Juan Steyn and Andre Goodrich

21. On Gambiarras: Technical Improvisations à la Brazil

Carolina Dalla Chiesa and Leonardo Foletto

22. Messy Empowerment: Mapping Digital Encounters in the Margins

Anita Gurumurthy and Deepti Bharthur

23. On Language, Gender, and Digital Technologies

Tim Unwin

24. Africa’s Digitalization: From the Ecological Dilemma to the Decolonization of the Imaginary

Cédric Leterme

Contributors

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