South Asian Digital Humanities: Postcolonial Mediations across Technology’s Cultural Canon

The digital cultural record has a significant role in creating new homes within the digital milieu, such as new digital archives, maps, and comfort zones. South Asian Digital Humanities argues that postcolonial digital humanities can create social justice scholarship in South Asian studies, offering innovative interventions that complicate the digital cultural record while lodging a homelanding for South Asians within it.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 138 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The digital cultural record holds immense significance in shaping both present and future strategies for creating new homes within the digital realm. By developing and establishing new digital archives focused on South Asian studies, we gain the ability to create new repositories of historical information while also exploring alternative ways to remember and commemorate the past. Moreover, the emergence of new maps and digital comfort zones enables individuals to connect with their family and loved ones who are primarily accessible online, fostering meaningful connections despite geographical barriers. These interventions are crucial in restoring the integrity and soul of communities that have endured the profound legacies of the British Empire and the communal violence associated with its decline.

In addition to the rich history of digital humanities scholarship in South Asia and its diasporas, this book argues that South Asian studies is uniquely positioned to contribute to a new genealogy of digital humanities. Through the compilation of essays in this volume, we witness how the digital continues to shape notions of home, belonging, nation, identity, memory, and diaspora through a diverse range of humanistic methodologies and digital techniques.

South Asian Digital Humanities thus showcases the immense potential of postcolonial digital humanities to produce some of the most significant social justice scholarship in South Asian studies over the past century. By presenting these essays as innovative interventions that complicate the digital cultural record, while also providing a sense of homeland for South Asians within it, this book positions digital humanities as a valuable method through which South Asian studies can strategically engage in the ongoing struggle for representation within digital knowledge production.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367504311