Tag: Humanities

Free Download Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS By Charles B. Travis
2015 | 175 Pages | ISBN: 1589483685 | PDF | 12 MB
In Abstract Machine, author Charles Travis uses GIS technology to interpret, analyze, and visualize literary, historical, and philosophical texts. Travis’s study shows how mapping language patterns, fictional landscapes, geographic spaces, and philosophical concepts helps support critical analysis. Travis bases his interpretive model upon the ancient Greek and Roman practice of geographia, and applies it to works by authors including Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O’Brien, and James Joyce. Travis illustrates how scholars in the humanities can experiment with GIS to create visualizations that support and illustrate their critical analysis of humanities texts, and survey, navigate, and imagine various story-paths through space and time.

Free Download Gallego Cuiñas, "Humanities and Big Data in Ibero-America: Methodological issues and practical applications "
English | ISBN: 3110753510 | 2023 | 220 pages | PDF | 32 MB
La colección presenta trabajos interdisciplinares que hacen uso de herramientas no solo humanistas sino también digitales para proponer enfoques inéditos sobre Literatura, Lingüística, Teoría Crítica y Filosofía en el espacio multicultural iberoamericano del siglo XXI. Las tres principales líneas de investigación – los corpus lingüísticos digitalizados, la lingüística experimental, y la relación entre Literatura, Crítica y Big Data – combinan el análisis de datos con un pensamiento crítico que trasciende el "dataísmo" y abre nuevas perspectivas (biopolítica, feminista y decolonial) en las Humanidades Digitales.

Free Download Aaron Pinnix, "Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities "
English | ISBN: 3837669831 | 2024 | 276 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of quotidian practices that affect and guide people’s lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.

Free Download Stuart Murray, "Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines "
English | ISBN: 1350172170 | 2023 | 144 pages | PDF | 1025 KB
Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from different heritages, they share many features, from discussing the complexities of embodiment, identifying processes of exclusion and championing user participation, to a commitment to new forms of critical writing.

Free Download Vulnerabilities: Rethinking Medicine Rights and Humanities in Post-pandemic by Stefania Achella, Chantal Marazia
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 250 Pages | ISBN : 3031393775 | 14.4 MB
Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability. The essays here contained take the move from the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to explore the inherent vulnerability of individuals, but also of social, economic and political systems, and probe the descriptive and prescriptive import of the concept.

Free Download Lorella Viola, "Multilingual Digital Humanities "
English | ISBN: 1032491949 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Multilingual Digital Humanities explores the impact of monolingualism―especially Anglocentrism―on digital practices in the humanities and social sciences.

Free Download Humanities and Big Data in Ibero-America: Theory, methodology and practical applications by Ana Gallego Cuiñas and Daniel Torres-Salinas
English | EPUB | 2023 | 230 Pages | ISBN : 3110753510 | 4.2 MB
This volume presents the first comprehensive study on the relationship between the Human Sciences and Big Data, with special emphasis on the Ibero-American space. The volume is divided into three parts (theoretical, methodological and practical) with an interdisciplinary vision that integrates thought, culture, language, literature, theoretical criticism, society or the use of new bibliometric techniques.

Free Download Melissa Brotton, "Ecotheology in the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature "
English | ISBN: 1498527930 | 2016 | 272 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care and Sabbath, sacramental approaches to earth care, classical and medieval cosmologies, ecotheodicy (how we understand the problem of nonhuman suffering in a world controlled by a good God), ecojustice (how humans help to alleviate nonhuman suffering). The book seeks to provide a way to understand Judeo-Christian perspectives on human-to-nonhuman interaction through Biblical, literary, cultural, film, and music studies, and as such, offers an interdisciplinary approach with emphasis on the humanities, which provides a broader platform for ecotheology.

Free Download Serpil Oppermann, "Blue Humanities "
English | ISBN: 1009393278 | 2023 | 82 pages | PDF | 4 MB
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls for transdisciplinary cooperation and encourages thinking with water and thinking together beyond the conventions of tentacular anthropocentric thought. Working across many disciplines, the blue humanities, then, challenges the cultural primacy of standard sea and freshwater narratives and promotes disanthropocentric discourses about water ecologies. Engaging with the most pressing water problems, this Element contributes to those new discursive practices from a material ecocritical perspective. The authors’ hypothesis is that fluid-storied matter and the new stories we tell can change the game by changing our mindset.

Free Download Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1316512509 | 264 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to the notion that legitimate knowledge is obtained when a scientist follows a rigorous investigative procedure called the Scientific Method. Chris Haufe challenges this idea. He shows that what we know about the Scientific Method rests fundamentally on the use of finely tuned human judgments directed toward certain questions about the natural world. He suggests that this dependence on judgment in fact reveals deep affinities between scientific knowledge and another, equally important, sort of comprehension: that of humanistic creative endeavour. His wide-ranging and stimulating new book uncovers the unexpected unity underlying all our efforts – whether scientific or arts-based – to understand human experience. In so doing, it makes a vital contribution to broader conversation about the value of the humanities in an increasingly STEM-saturated educational culture.