殖民地和十九世纪拉丁美洲研究与数字公共人文学科
Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin American Studies and Digital Public Humanities
Clayton McCarl,Emma Slayton,Carolina Alzate,George Aaron Broadwell,Xóchitl Flores-Marcial,Brook Danielle Lillehaugen,Felipe H. Lopez,Siobhan Meï,May Helena Plumb,Ernesto Priani Saisó,Jonathan Michael Square
摘要:殖民地和19世纪拉丁美洲研究的学术成果通常难以超越专业学术圈的范围。大部分研究仍然保持传统形式,专著、期刊文章和书籍章节是最常见的出版类型。这些研究成果中只有一小部分以开放获取的方式在线发布,即使如此,这些学术成果通常也没有考虑到更广泛的公众,其创作过程中很少与利益相关方社区进行互动。
数字方法和工具为这些领域探索新的学术生产和出版模式提供了机会。在数字领域工作的研究人员正在设计和实施旨在与当代社区对话、以新方式吸引不同群体的项目。这些学者并非试图取代支撑这些领域的传统学术,而是在质疑我们如何在21世纪进行学术工作,以及如何让我们的研究成果对更大范围的受众产生影响。
本文通过五个数字项目,探讨了殖民地和19世纪拉丁美洲学者如何开展以包容性学术为目标的工作,走出学术圈,面向更广泛的公众。这些项目包括Ticha、索莱达·阿科斯塔·德·桑佩尔数字图书馆、跨国项目“海洋交流”中的墨西哥团队、《革命呈现》和coloniaLab。通过致力于为多元社区生产学术成果,并与这些社区合作,这些项目为在公共领域开展殖民地和19世纪拉丁美洲研究提供了新的模式。
关键词:数字公共人文学科、拉丁美洲殖民地研究、19 世纪拉丁美洲研究、数字社区参与
Abstract: Scholarship in colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American studies often does not reach beyond specialized academic audiences. The majority of work continues to be largely traditional in nature, with monographs, journal articles, and book chapters remaining the most common types of publications. Only a small portion of that production is distributed in an open-access format online, and even when that is the case, such scholarly output is generally not conceived with broader publics in mind, and engagement with stakeholder communities seldom plays a role in its creation.
Digital methodologies and tools present opportunities to explore new modes of scholarly production and publication in these fields. Researchers working in a digital realm are designing and carrying out projects that speak to contemporary communities and involve diverse constituencies in new ways. Without seeking to supplant the more conventional scholarship that grounds their fields, these scholars are asking questions about how we conduct academic work in the twenty-first century and how we can make the products of our work relevant to larger audiences.
This article examines five digital projects through which scholars of colonial and nineteenth-century Latin America are conducting work that looks outward from the academy towards inclusive scholarship: Ticha, the Biblioteca Digital Soledad Acosta de Samper, the Mexico team of the multinational project Oceanic Exchanges, Rendering Revolution, and coloniaLab. Through a commitment to producing scholarship for, and in collaboration with, diverse communities,these projects suggest models for conducting the work of colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American studies in the public sphere.
Keywords:digital public humanities, colonial Latin American studies, nineteenth-century Latin America studies, digital community engagement