Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Conversations on Digital Humanities

Contentions and Contingencies in the Indian Context

Av Sunanda Kar, Avishek Ray

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This book brings together the essential debates concerning the emergent area of Digital Humanities (DH) in India. Through the interviews, the book attempts to identify the differences and convergences between DH practice in India and that of Global North. The book can be seen as a compendium for exploring multifarious layers of the ‘digital’ and its relationship with humanities, academia, and beyond, thereby giving rise to many complications and contentions within DH in India. Conversations on DH depict the chequered and amorphous nature of DH practice in India—as an academic discipline, as a methodology, as community projects, and as an appendage to the existing discipline of literary studies, toward charting the features of DH as an emerging discourse. For example, some scholars understand DH as a ‘method’, while others regard it as a discipline. Similarly, while some view DH in India as a derivative of DH in the Global South, others consider it distinct from DH in the Global North. This book brings together these different, yet diverse and distinct notions in form of conversations, to provide not a uniform understanding of DH, but a comprehensive view of the paradigm of what can be tentatively understood as ‘Indian DH’. As editors, we ensure that this book captures the pluralities around the concerns of DH, which are determined not by us, but by scholars and practitioners who have been steering the area of DH.This volume will be of interest to those making their initial entry into the area of DH—particularly, students of literary studies, cultural studies, and media and communication studies. The volume brings together diverse voices concerning not only DH practice but also practices concerning the broader discourse of the digital and digitality; alongside, the volume will allow readers to engage with the evolving landscape of DH with respect to the Indian context.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-16
Mått: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt: 450 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 142
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781041384342

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Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Representation, Agency & Resilience (2022); co-author of Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India (2024) and Temporal Spaces in Calcutta: Digital Networks in the Wake of the Pandemic (2026); editor of Decolonial Travel: Vernacular Mobilities in India (2025); and co-editor of Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (2020). In 2021, his academic excellence was recognized with the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. Sunanda Kar teaches in the Department of Social Sciences and Languages at the Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai. Her research delves into the intersections of literature, new media, and digital cultures. She has published in South Asian Popular Culture (Routledge) and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State University Press).

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What kind of scholarly field do the Digital Humanities constitute? Rather than attempting to draw that map from the outside, in a way seeking boundaries, a better way to answer that question might be to ask people who practise it and engage with the complexities of the many ideas, methods, and objects of inquiry that populate this space, one that refuses to be bound by a simple definition or disciplinary cubbyhole. This book brings together such conversations, and locates it within scholarly and activist practices of thinking and doing. The editors and authors bring to us insights and perspectives that allow readers to feel and think their way around the field, rather than be told what it is. This is a book that will appeal both to students and researchers who are trying to make sense of this nebulous but exciting intellectual space.- Usha RamanProfessor in the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. In the ever-growing body of literature on Digital Humanities in India, this collection offers an exceptional, unprecedented and highly welcome format that no one interested in the subject should miss! For the first time ever, systematic interviews with leading researchers and practitioners allow for an exclusive peek into their expert view of ‘Indian DH’ and developments at the intersections of technology, culture and society in India overall.- Zenia XeilerProfessor of South Asian Studies, University of Helsinki; Editor of Digital Hinduism and Co-Editor of several volumes and special journal issues on Digital Culture in Asia and beyond

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