https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504630.2025.2545005
[AI Summary]: This editorial critically examines the digital humanities’ institutional heritage and promises of digital transformation. The authors, based in the Global South, trace humanities education’s dual pathways (elite vs. technocratic institutions) from Kant’s Enlightenment ideals to contemporary cybertarianism. They critique the digital humanities’ initial domination by privileged demographics and displacement of progressive scholarship, while acknowledging recent improvements in addressing crucial political questions through projects on women philosophers, slavery, indigenous languages, and Afro-Latin American cultures. The piece argues that regardless of digital methods, the fundamental goal remains creating critical and self-critical perspectives serving the public interest.
- Authors: Pal Ahluwalia & Toby Miller
- Year: 2025
- Journal: Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture