Practices of Digital Humanities in India

Learning by Doing
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-03-235088-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This book showcases innovations in digital humanities (DH) across efforts in India. It examines DH projects that have spanned private and public efforts institutionally sanctioned lab-work and crowd-sourced programmes of public significance and show how collectively they demonstrate the potential paths of DH in India.

The essays in the volume highlight the two fundamental challenges for the digital humanities (DH) — acts of curation of new scales and the creation of platforms that can assist in the collation and analysis of these digital archives — and changes in learning behaviour. They examine the transformation of the university, and the opening up of new relationships between knowledge and audience in concomitant spaces of scholarship such as libraries, archives, and museums. The volume brings to the fore citizen efforts across the globe to document, record and preserve as well as create new avenues of study and forge networks of scholarship that look very different from traditional academia. It also foregrounds the challenges of location and addresses the question of how DH should be taught in India and of building digital infrastructures.

A go-to guide for DH efforts in the Global South, this book will be an essential text for courses on digital humanities, library and information sciences, and online learning.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dodd, Maya

Menon, Nirmala

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften EDV Systeme, Internet und elektronische Ressourcen in Bibliotheken
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I- DIGITAL PEDAGOGY 1. People’s Archive of Rural India: The Material in the Digital 2. Building Digital Humanities Curricula in Technology-Emphasized Indian Classrooms 3. Digital Archiving on the Intersections of Academia and Activism 4. The Archive as a Crucible: Experiments with Pedagogy through an Archive 5. Visualizing the Cultural History of South Asia PART II- TOOLS: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 6. Digital Assessment of Conventional Lexical Analysis of the Urdu Marsiya with Sketch Engine Software 7. Dictionary of Colloquial Terminologies: An Open Database Research Platform for Archaeology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies & Digital Humanities 8. Mapping India’s Linguistic Diversity and Exclusion in the Indian Census 9. Digital Methods in the Collection, Management, Reuse, Sharing and Circulation of Indian Heritage Data 10. The Promise and Perils of Bot-based Public History PART III- COMMUNITY PROJECTS 11. Khidki Collective: Reflections on Academic Method Beyond the University 12. Participatory Engagement & Methods in Digital Humanities 13. Archiving India through Food – A Personal History of On Eating, a Multilingual Online Journal of Food and Eating 14. Digital Fever: Reflections of a Queer Archive 15. Jewish Calcutta, recalled: Lessons from Building a Digital Public Memory Resource 16. Unveiling Digital Narratives: Understanding (In)visibility & Resistance of Adivasi Women from Jharkhand

Über Autor(innen)

Maya Dodd is Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning and Engagement and is a part of the Department of Humanities and Languages, and she teaches Literary and Cultural Studies at FLAME University, India. Her research interests include Indian law and cultural studies, and her teaching is focused on the digital classroom and archiving practices in South Asian cultural studies.

Nirmala Menon leads the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, India. She is Associate Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), IIT Indore. Menon is the project lead for KSHIP (Knowledge Sharing in Publishing), an IIT Indore digital humanities project in multilingual open access scholarly publishing in India. She is widely published in numerous international journals and speaks, writes and publishes about postcolonial studies, digital humanities and scholarly publishing.