[Commlist] new book: Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities

Announcement of Book Published


  Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities

Volume editor
Amanda Du Preez

Book can be downloaded here:
https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/79


      Synopsis

This volume captures the status of digital humanities within the Arts in 
South Africa. The primary research methodology falls within the broader 
tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics, with a specific emphasis on 
visual hermeneutics. Some of the tools utilised as part of the visual 
hermeneutic methods are geographic information system (GIS) mapping, 
sensory ethnography and narrative pathways. Digital humanities is 
positioned here as the necessary engagement of the humanities with the 
pervasive digital culture of the 21st century. It is posited that the 
humanities and arts, in particular, have an essential role to play in 
unlocking meaning from scientific, technological and data-driven 
research. The critical engagement with digital humanities is 
foregrounded throughout the volume, as this crucial engagement works 
through images. Images (as understood within image studies) are not 
merely another text but always more than a text. As such, this book is 
the first of its kind in the South African scholarly landscape, and 
notably also a first on the African continent. Its targeted audience 
include both scholars within the humanities, particularly in the arts 
and social sciences. Researchers pursuing the new field of digital 
humanities may also find the ideas presented in this book significant. 
Several of the chapters analyse the question of dealing with digital 
humanities through representations of the self as viewed from the Global 
South. However, it should be noted that self-representation is not the 
only area covered in this volume. The latter chapters of the book 
discuss innovative ways of implementing digital humanities strategies 
and methodologies for teaching and researching in South Africa.


      Chapters

  *
    PART 1: Representations of the Self
  *
    Chapter 1: Digital Scholarship and Representations of the Self:
    Exploratory Notes
    Amanda Du Preez
  *
    Chapter 2: Humanities GIS Selfie and Anti-Selfie Bricolage, Urban
    Affect and Public Mental Hygiene: The ‘SmartCities’ of James Joyce
    and Charles Bukowski
    Charles Travis
  *
    Chapter 3: The Selfie as Articulation of, and Response to,
    Indifference(s)
    Chris Broodryk
  *
    Chapter 4: The Leadership Persona in #FeesMustFall: A Platform for
    Self-Presentation
    Juan-Pierre van der Walt
  *
    PART 2: Digital Scholarship
  *
    Chapter 5: Visualising the Return Pathways of Patients to the
    Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum
    Rory du Plessis
  *
    Chapter 6: Digital Humanities Meets Sensory Ethnography: Using
    Digital Resources to Understand Multisensory Experiences in a Public
    Place
    Jenni Lauwrens
  *
    Chapter 7: The Bigger Picture: What Digital Humanities Can Learn
    from Data Art
    Karli Brittz
  *
    Chapter 8: Digital Technologies and Art Museums in Gauteng
    Daniel Rankadi Mosako


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