Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities
How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world

Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection.

Contributors: Anne Beaulieu, U of Groningen; Kyle Booten, U of Connecticut; Ann Borda, U of Melbourne; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Toby Burrows, U of Western Australia; Ashley Caranto Morford, Weber State U; Javier Cha, U of Hong Kong; Jing Chen, Nanjing U; Arianna Ciula, King’s College London; Maya Dodd, FLAME U, Pune, India; Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, U of London; Allan Gomez, Philly Community Wireless; Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue U; Matthew Hockenberry, Fordham U; Arun Jacob, U of Toronto; Mike Jones, U of Tasmania; Lucie Kolb, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW; Ian M. Miller, St. John’s U, New York; Sylvia K. Miller, Duke U; Sarah Montoya, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow; Saumyaa Naidu, independent researcher; Sharika Parmar, FLAME U, Pune, India; Kush Patel, Srishti Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru; Miriam Posner, UCLA; Puthiya Purayil Sneha, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad; Paul Spence, King’s College London; Lik Hang Tsui, City U of Hong Kong; Deb Verhoeven, U of Alberta; Miguel Vieira, King’s College London; Devren Washington, Philly Community Wireless; Alex Wermer-Colan, Temple U and Philly Community Wireless; Darren Wershler, Concordia U; Grant Wythoff, Princeton U and Philly Community Wireless.

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Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities
How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world

Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection.

Contributors: Anne Beaulieu, U of Groningen; Kyle Booten, U of Connecticut; Ann Borda, U of Melbourne; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Toby Burrows, U of Western Australia; Ashley Caranto Morford, Weber State U; Javier Cha, U of Hong Kong; Jing Chen, Nanjing U; Arianna Ciula, King’s College London; Maya Dodd, FLAME U, Pune, India; Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, U of London; Allan Gomez, Philly Community Wireless; Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue U; Matthew Hockenberry, Fordham U; Arun Jacob, U of Toronto; Mike Jones, U of Tasmania; Lucie Kolb, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW; Ian M. Miller, St. John’s U, New York; Sylvia K. Miller, Duke U; Sarah Montoya, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow; Saumyaa Naidu, independent researcher; Sharika Parmar, FLAME U, Pune, India; Kush Patel, Srishti Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru; Miriam Posner, UCLA; Puthiya Purayil Sneha, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad; Paul Spence, King’s College London; Lik Hang Tsui, City U of Hong Kong; Deb Verhoeven, U of Alberta; Miguel Vieira, King’s College London; Devren Washington, Philly Community Wireless; Alex Wermer-Colan, Temple U and Philly Community Wireless; Darren Wershler, Concordia U; Grant Wythoff, Princeton U and Philly Community Wireless.

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Overview

How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world

Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection.

Contributors: Anne Beaulieu, U of Groningen; Kyle Booten, U of Connecticut; Ann Borda, U of Melbourne; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Toby Burrows, U of Western Australia; Ashley Caranto Morford, Weber State U; Javier Cha, U of Hong Kong; Jing Chen, Nanjing U; Arianna Ciula, King’s College London; Maya Dodd, FLAME U, Pune, India; Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, U of London; Allan Gomez, Philly Community Wireless; Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue U; Matthew Hockenberry, Fordham U; Arun Jacob, U of Toronto; Mike Jones, U of Tasmania; Lucie Kolb, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW; Ian M. Miller, St. John’s U, New York; Sylvia K. Miller, Duke U; Sarah Montoya, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow; Saumyaa Naidu, independent researcher; Sharika Parmar, FLAME U, Pune, India; Kush Patel, Srishti Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru; Miriam Posner, UCLA; Puthiya Purayil Sneha, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad; Paul Spence, King’s College London; Lik Hang Tsui, City U of Hong Kong; Deb Verhoeven, U of Alberta; Miguel Vieira, King’s College London; Devren Washington, Philly Community Wireless; Alex Wermer-Colan, Temple U and Philly Community Wireless; Darren Wershler, Concordia U; Grant Wythoff, Princeton U and Philly Community Wireless.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781517916077
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 01/20/2026
Series: Debates in the Digital Humanities
Pages: 424
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alan Liu is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of several books, including The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information.

Urszula Pawlicka-Deger is research manager in the Discovery Research program at Wellcome Trust. She is coeditor of Digital Humanities and Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Culture.

James Smithies is professor of digital humanities at the Australian National University and director of the HASS Digital Research Hub. He is author of The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction. “Object of Study”: Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure Studies

Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies

Part I: Critical Infrastructure Studies (and Digital Humanities)

1. Interfaces for the Anthropocene

Anne Beaulieu

2. Replatforming

Susan Brown

3. Networking the Nation: Settler Colonialism as an Analytic in Critical Infrastructure Studies

Sarah Montoya

4. Manifesting Connection: Digital Humanities for the Critical Study of Logistics

Matthew Hockenberry

5. Critical Studies of Tech Stacks: What Can Technologies Tell Us About a Lab Culture?

Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Arianna Ciula, and Miguel Vieira

6. Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures

Martin Paul Eve

Part II: Digital Humanities (and Critical Infrastructure Studies)

7. Digital Humanities and the Energetics of Big Data

Javier Cha and Ian M. Miller

8. Alternative Infrastructures for Digital Equity: Community-Based Internet Access

Alex Wermer-Colan, Grant Wythoff, Allan Gomez, and Devren Washington

9. Understanding Multilingualism in Digital Humanities Infrastructures

Paul Spence

10. What’s Missing: Studying Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure in India

Maya Dodd and Sharika Parmar

11. Connecting Digital Systems by Whom and for Whom? Taking Stock of the Digital Humanities Infrastructures in China

Lik Hang Tsui and Jing Chen

12. Reproducibility and Contestation in Humanities Digital Infrastructure

Deb Verhoeven, Mike Jones, Toby Burrows, and Ann Borda

13. Scrounging

Darren Wershler

Part III: (Re)envisioning Digital Humanities Infrastructure

14. Resisting BYOI (Bring Your Own Infrastructure) in Digital Humanities Learning Spaces

Kush Patel, Ashley Caranto Morford, and Arun Jacob (Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed Collective)

15. Making Infrastructure Writable

Lucie Kolb

16. Online Feminist Publishing and Content Creation as Feminist Infrastructure in India

Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Saumyaa Naidu

17. Digital Humanities from Below: Speculating on Solidarity Infrastructure

Matthew N. Hannah and Miriam Posner

18. Imagining a Future of Multimedia E-books

Sylvia K. Miller

19. Subjective Functions: How Should Humanistic Research Be Quantified?

Kyle Booten

Appendix: Infrastructure Manifests

Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies, Editors

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