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• 1. New directions in multidisciplinary knowledge production in sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction
• 2. From 'sitting on the fence' to rhizomatic thinking: An Appraisal of the heuristic 'lines of flight' in multi/inter disciplinary contemporary stylistics
• 3. Rupturing the traditional thought in search of novel heuristic voyages in New Testament studies. New reflections on Narratological methodology
• 4. Postcolonial African feminist research agenda: African women theologians' search for liberating paradigms in oral and written religious and cultural texts
• 5. Discipline, decolonisation and agency
• 6. (Re) thinking and (re)theorising 'multi' and its futures in academic discourse studies
• 7. 'Collective Intelligence' a precursor for multidisciplinary research in Africa: An Appreciative Inquiry Perspective
• 8. Multi-disciplinary Era and shifting methodological pathways in New Testament Studies: A Stylistic paradigm
• 9. Decentring research in African Universities
• 10. "...Get out, you seer! Go back to the Land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there" (Amos 7:12). Deflecting Traditional Disciplinary Boundaries in Biblical Studies
• 11. Methodological and epistemological misconceptions about Mixed Methods Approach amongst university students
• 12. Packaging new wine into old wineskins: Possibilities and challenges of using virtual Ethnography in knowledge production in Zimbabwe
• 13. An interdisciplinary research approach: opportunities and challenges from a Zimbabwean perspective
• 14. Researching Religious Indigenous Knowledge in Zimbabwe: Methodological Issues for African Scholars
• 15. Old Methods and New Methods in sub-Saharan Africa: The Recap.

• The digital humanities, moment to moment / Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein
• Openings and interventions. Toward a political economy of digital humanities / Matthew N. Hannah
• All the work you do not see: labor, digitizers, and the foundations of digital humanities / Astrid J. Smith and Bridget Whearty
• Right-to-left (RTL) text: digital humanities plus half a billion users / Masoud Ghorbaninejad, Nathan P. Gibson, and David Joseph Wrisley
• Relation-oriented AI: why indigenous protocols matter for the digital humanities / Michelle Lee Brown, Hēmi Whaanga, and Jason Edward Lewis
• A U.S. Latinx digital humanities manifesto / Gabriela Baeza Ventura, María Merchant, Lorena Gauthereau, and Crolina Villarroel
• Theories and approaches. The body is not (only) a metaphor: rethinking embodiment in DH / Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit
• The queer gap in cultural analytics / Kent K. Chang
• The feminist data manifest-NO: an introduction and four reflections / Tonia Sutherland, Marika Cifor, T. L. Cowan, Jas Rault, and Patricia Garcia
• Black is not the absence of light: restoring Black visibility and liberation to digital humanities / Nishani Frazier, Christy Hyman, and Hilary N. Green
• Digital humanities in the deepfake era / Abraham Gibson
• Operationalizing surveillance studies in the digital humanities / Christa Boyles, Andrew Boyles Petersen, and Arun Jacob
• Disciplines and institutions. A voice interrupts: digital humanities as a tool to hear Black life / Alison Martin
• Addressing an emergency: the "pragmatic tilt" required of scholarship, data, and design by the climate crisis / Jo Guldi
• Digital art history as disciplinary practice / Emily Pugh
• Building and sustaining Africana digital humanities at HBCUs / Rico Devara Chapman
• A call to research action: transnational solidarity for digital humanists / Olivia Quintanilla and Jeanelle Horcasitas
• Game studies, endgame? / Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill
• Pedagogies and practices. The challenges and possibilities of social media data: new directions in literary studies and the digital humanities / Melanie Walsh
• Language is not a default setting: countering DH's English problem / Quinn Dombrowski and Patrick J. Burns
• Librarians' illegible labor: toward a documentary practice of digital humanities / Spencer D. C. Keralis, Rafia Mirza, and Maura Seale
• Reframing the conversation: digital humanists, disabilities, and accessibility / Megan R. Brett, Jessica Marie Otis, and Mills Kelly
• From precedents to collective action: realities and recommendations for digital dissertations in history / Zoe LeBlanc, Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe, and Jeri Wieringa
• Critique is the steam: reorienting critical digital humanities across disciplines / James Malazita
• Forum: #unsilencedpast / Kaiama L. Glover. Being undisciplined: Black womanhood in digital spaces / a conversation with Marlene L. Daut and Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
• How this helps us get free: telling Black stories through technology / a conversation with Kim Gallon and Marisa Parham
• "Blackness" in France: taking up mediatized space / a conversation with Maboula Soumahoro and Mame-Fatou Niang
• The power to create: building alternative (digital) worlds / a conversation with Martha S. Jones and Jessica Marie Johnson.

"Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environmental crises; a global pandemic; and the deepening of austerity regimes in U.S. higher education. This latest volume in the Debates in Digital Humanities series includes crucial contributions to the field--from a vital forum centered on the voices of Black women scholars, manifestos from feminist and Latinx perspectives on data and DH, and a consideration of Indigenous data and artificial intelligence, to essays that range across topics such as the relation of DH to critical race theory, capital, and accessibility."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Collecting Ourselves / Katherine Bode and Paul Longley Arthur
• PART I. TRANSFORMING DISCIPLINES
• 2. Exercises in Battology / Mark Byron
• 3. Stylometry of Dickens's Language : An Experiment with Random Forests / Tomoji Tabata
• 4. Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance / Jack Elliott
• 5. The Printers' Web / Sydney Shep
• 6. Biographical Dictionaries in the Digital Era / Paul Longley Arthur
• PART II. MEDIA METHODS
• 7. Digital Methods in New Cinema History / Richard Maltby, Dylan Walker and Mike Walsh
• 8. A "Big Data" Approach to Mapping the Australian Twittersphere / Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Tim Highfield
• 9. iResearch : What Do Smart Phones Tell Us about the Digital Human? / Mark Cote
• 10. Screenshots as Virtual Photography : Cybernetics, Remediation, and Affect / Christopher Moore
• PART III. CRITICAL CURATION
• 11. Rethinking Collections / Julia Flanders
• 12. Methods and Canons / Katherine Bode and Tara Murphy
• 13. Reading the Text, Walking the Terrain, Following the Map / Øyvind Eide
• 14. Doing the Sheep Good : Facilitating Engagement in Digital Humanities and Creative Arts Research / Deb Verhoeven
• 15. Materialities of Software / Ned Rossiter
• PART IV. RESEARCH FUTURES
• 16. Digital Humanities : Is Bigger Better? / Peter Robinson
• 17. Digital Humanities, or Digitally Based Humanities Research / Paul Turnbull
• 18. The Big Bang of Online Reading / Alan Liu
• 19. Getting There from Here : Remembering the Future of Digital Humanities / Willard McCarty.

"Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally. Sections cover digital methods, critical curation and research futures, with theoretical and practical chapters framed around key areas of activity including modelling collections, data-driven analysis, and thinking through building. These are linked through the concept of 'ambitious generosity, ' a way of working to pursue large-scale research questions while supporting and enabling other research areas and approaches, both within and beyond the academy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Digital Humanities as Theory and Practice
• Workflows of Digital Scholars
• Disciplinary (Re)Orientations
• Organizational Patterns
• Beyond Expectations.

Amongst Digital Humanists brings an ethnographic account of the changing landscape of humanities scholarship as it affects individual scholars, academic fields and institutions, and argues for a pluralistic vision of digital knowledge production in the humanities. Based on fieldwork conducted at twenty-three academic and funding institutions in the US and Europe and on interviews with researchers, students, librarians, web developers, policy makers, and funders, this study shows how digital technologies transform the ways humanists envision, carry out, communicate, and organize their work and approach their objects of inquiry.

• 1. Background: The Crisis of the Humanities
• 2. A Manifesto of Numanities
• 3. Case-Studies
• 4. Appendix: A Short (Pre) History of Numanities
• References
• Index of names.

The book aims to introduce a research concept called "Numanities", as one possible attempt to overcome the current scientific, social and institutional crisis of the humanities. Such crisis involves their impact on, and role within, society; their popularity among students and scholars; and their identity as producers and promoters of knowledge. The modern western world and its economic policies have been identified as the strongest cause of such a crisis. Creating the conditions for, but in fact encouraging it. However, a self-critical assessment of the situation is called for. Our primary fault as humanists was that of stubbornly thinking that the world's changes could never really affect us, as - we felt - our identity was sacred. In the light of these approaches, the main strengths of humanities have been identified in the ability to: promote critical thinking and analytical reasoning; provide knowledge and understanding of democracy and social justice; develop leadership, cultural and ethical values. The main problems of humanities are the lack economic relevance; the socio-institutional perception of them as "impractical" and unemployable; the fact that they do not match with technological development. Finally, the resulting crisis consists mainly in the absence (or radical reduction) of funding from institutions; a decrease in student numbers a decrease in interest; a loss of centrality in society. A Numanities (New Humanities) project should consider all these aspects, with self-critical assessment on the first line. The goal is to unify the various fields, approaches and also potentials of the humanities in the context, dynamics and problems of current societies, and in an attempt to overcome the above-described crisis. Numanities are introduced not as a theoretical paradigm, but in terms of an "umbrella-concept" that has no specific scientific content in it: that particularly means that the many existing new fields and research trends that are addressing the same problems (post-humanism, transhumanism, transformational humanities, etc.) are not competitors of Numanities, but rather possible ways to them.-- Provided by publisher

• Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors;
• Chapter 1: Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge and Education: An Introduction; Universally Accepted Knowledge versus Particular Knowledge; Interrelations Between Knowledge and Culture; Culture and Ethnicity as a Power-Sensitive Field; Goals, Structure, and Contents of This Volume; Ethnic Minorities and Schooling; Academic Debates About Indigenous, Traditional, Native, and Local Knowledge; Knowledge, Culture, and Action: Case Studies on Indigenous and Local Knowledge; Conclusion; References.

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• 2: The School System as an Arena of Ethnic ConflictsNation-Building, Schooling, and Ethnic Conflicts; The Educational System as a Sounding Board of Societal Problems and Conflicts in Multiethnic States; Methodological Problems of Minority Research; Educational Achievement and Attainment as a Measure of the Collective Social Status of Ethnic Minorities; Measures Used to Suppress, Assimilate, Disadvantage, or Emancipate Minority Children in the School System ; Compulsory Ignorance; Isolation of Minority Children in Distant Boarding Schools; Language of Instruction.

• The Impact of Teachers on the Development of Minority Cultures Location and Size of Primary Schools; Responses of Ethnic Minorities to Measures of Forced Assimilation; Conclusion; References;
• Chapter 3: Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States; The Development of Public Schools in the United States; The South as a Special Case; Consequences of the Civil War; Philanthropic Foundations and Southern Schools; Segregated Schools as Anchors of the Black Community; The Integration Era, 1954-1997; References.

• Chapter 4: Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education: Ethnic Groups in the United States ReconsideredThe Ethnic Quandary; Obama and a Black Awakening?; Geographical Reflections of Educational Attainment; Public Schools: The "Great Equalizer"?; Traditions of Ethnic Undereducation; References;
• Chapter 5: Educational Inequalities Reflecting Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness? Exploring the Place of Hispanics and Hispanic Cultures in Higher Education and Research Institutions in New Mexico; Educational Attainment of the Hispanic Population.

• Educational Inequalities and the Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness of Students, Teachers, and Educational InstitutionsA Perceived Sociocultural Gap Between the University and Hispanic Students; The Role of Teaching Staff from Outside New Mexico; Tracing Back the History of Institutionalized Education in New Mexico; Conclusions and Perspectives; References;
• Chapter 6: Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts; Theory and Method; Minority Youth Narratives and Relevant Research Findings.

This book presents theoretical and methodical discussions on local knowledge and indigenous knowledge. It examines educational attainment of ethnic minorities, race and politics in educational systems, and the problem of losing indigenous knowledge. It comprises a broad range of case studies about specifics of local knowledge from several regions of the world, reflecting the interdependence of norms, tradition, ethnic and cultural identities, and knowledge. The contributors exploregaps between knowledge and agency, addressquestions of the social distribution of knowledge, considerits relation to communal activities, and inquire into the relation and intersection of knowledge assemblages at local, national, and global scales. The book highlights the relevance of local and indigenous knowledge and discusses implications for educational and developmental politics. It provides ideas and a cross-disciplinary scientific background for scholars, students, and professionals including NGO activists, and policy-makers.

• Introduction / Peter Brooks
• Ordinary incredulous / Judith Butler
• Poetry, injury, and the ethics of reading / Elaine Scarry
• The ethics of reading / Charles Larmore
• Responses and discussion / Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jonathan Culler, Derek Attridge
• The raw and the half-cooked / Patricia J. Williams
• Conquering the obstacles to kingdom and fate : the ethics of reading and the university administrator / Ralph J. Hexter (with Craig Buckwald)
• Responses and discussion / Richard Sennett, Michael Roth, William Germano
• The call of another's words / Jonathan Lear
• On humanities and human rights / Paul W. Kahn
• Responses and discussion / Kim Lane Scheppele, Didier Fassin.

This work tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, and the training and discipline of close reading that underlie it, represent something that the humanities need to bring to other fields: to professional training and to public life.

• The Humanities Crisis Then and Now
• Professionalism and Its Discontents
• Humanism, the Humanities, and Political Correctness
• Getting to the Core of the Humanities, or Who's Afraid of Gloria Anzaldúa?
• Aesthetics, Close Reading, Theory, and the Future of Literary Studies
• Conclusion: The Humanities and the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet.

"Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education."--Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Texts, maps, and the landscape
• 3. Critical stepwise formalisation
• 4. Case studies
• 5. Towards a typology of media differences
• 6. Texts and maps as media expressions
• 7. GIS and digital mapping
• 8. Critical stepwise formalisation reloaded.

"Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling forms part of the humanities tradition by facing one of the fundamental problems since antiquity: how different media represent the world we live in. It intersects also with the digital by addressing the problem with the help of a digital humanities method: computer assisted conceptual modelling. And it acknowledges the spatial turn by investigating the boundary between what has traditionally been the two main media for representation of geospatial information: texts and maps. It contributes to the further development of digital humanities and bridges the two areas of digital humanities and intermedia studies. Further, it strengthens the theoretical foundation for research and teaching in spatial digital humanities. The book meets the lack of critical discussion of the practice of digital mapping, offering a theoretically based understanding of such practices from a humanities perspective. More generally, it contributes to the theoretical discussion of modelling in digital humanities"--Provided by publisher

• Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Ups and Downs of the Humanities; 2 The Humanities and the Future of the Life Sciences; 3 The Humanities and the Law; 4 Toolboxes, Preferences and the Humanities; 5 The Humanities and the Common Good; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence urges society to support the humanities to obtain continued guidance for public policy decisions, and challenges scholars to consider how best to fulfil their role in serving the common good.

• 1. Introduction : what do we need evaluation for? / Reinhard Stockmann
• 2. An introduction to evaluation / Reinhard Stockmann
• 3. Competing and complementary approaches to evaluation / Reinhard Stockmann
• 4. Organizational aspects of evaluations / Stefan Silvestrini
• 5. Evaluation designs / Wolfgang Meyer
• 6. The social context of evaluation / Tasso Brandt
• 7. Measuring : indicators, scales, indices, interpretations / Wolfgang Meyer
• 8. Data collection : surveys, observations, non-reactive procedures / Wolfgang Meyer
• 9. An introduction to data management and data analysis / Peter Maats and Pascal Klären
• 10. Reporting / Vera Hennefeld and Ralph Meiers

This comprehensive Handbook serves as an excellent reference manual providing answers to virtually every conceivable question that can arise during the planning and implementation process of an evaluation

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• Introduction : climate change and the Anthropocene
• 1. History
• 2. Art
• 3. Literature
• 4. Religion
• 5. Philosophy
• 6. Ethics and justice
• Epilogue : the future of humanity and the Earth.

"From the noted environmental historian and philosopher Carolyn Merchant, this wide-ranging book focuses on the original concept of the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) first proposed in 2000 by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer. It undertakes a broad investigation into the ways in which science, technology, and the humanities can create a new and compelling awareness of human impacts on the environment. Using history, art, literature, religion, philosophy, ethics, and justice as the focal points, Merchant traces key figures and developments in the humanities throughout the Anthropocene era and explores how these disciplines might influence sustainability in the next century"--Publisher's description.