New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy

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Author(s):	Risam, R.
Date:	2019
Publication:	Northwestern University Press
Citation:	Risam, R. (2019). New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Northwestern University Press, https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810138858/new-digital-worlds/

Section on webpage:	Critical Data Justice Literature
Tenets:	Presenting knowledge as constructed. Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Uncovering the causes of inequality and leveraging resources toward undoing power structures. Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning.
Annotation:	This work explores the relationship between digital humanities and post colonial studies, examining their respecitve histories and showing how they can interact to provide richer knowledge production. It posits that postcolonial digital humanities can be one way of remedying the inequalities that are part of digital knowledge production.

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