Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities

How the digital humanities can shape and be influenced by the infrastructures that support our world Critical Infrastructure Studies and the Digital Humanities redefines the concept of the digital humanities through the growing field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the world, this book explores how the digital humanities builds on and extends infrastructural theories and technologies that impact society, culture, and knowledge in diverse national and regional contexts. By examining the history of the digital humanities infrastructure, contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions of the future, addressing issues of environmentalism, decolonization, indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and more, from diverse disciplinary perspectives within concrete digital systems. This book's articles include innovative "data infrastructure" that highlights how the digital humanities examine and simultaneously shape the systems that support culture, scholarship, and communication. Contributors: Anne Beaulieu, University of Groningen; Kyle Boutin, University of Connecticut; Anne Borda, University of Melbourne; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Toby Burrows, University of Western Australia; Ashley Caranto-Morford, Weber State U; Javier Cha, University of Hong Kong; Jing Chen, Nanjing Yu; Arianna Ciulla, King's College London; Maya Dodd, FLAME U, Pune, India; Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London; Alan Gomez, Philadelphia Community Wireless; Matthew N. Hana, Purdue U; Matthew Hockenberry, Fordham U; Aaron Jacob, University of Toronto; Mike Jones, University of Tasmania; Lucy Kolb, Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW; Ian M. Miller, St. John's U, New York; Sylvia K. Miller, Duke of Yeo; Sarah Montoya, a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Mellon; Soumya Naidu, independent researcher; Sharika Parmar, Flame University, 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 University of Hong Kong; Deb Verhoeven, University of Alberta; Miguel Vieira, King's College London; Devin Washington, Philly Community Wireless; Alex Wermer-Cullan, Temple University and Philly Community Wireless; Darren Werchler, Concordia University; Grant Wiethoff, Princeton University and Philly Community Wireless.