“Building Critical Decolonial Digital Archives: Recognizing Complexities to Reimagine Possibilities”

by Bibhushana Poudyal | Xchanges 14.1, Spring 2019

Conclusion

The first and the most crucial thing that drew me towards working in and with digital archiving and digital humanities is the urgency to make their practices and theories critically aware and culturally responsive. Therefore, in this article, I consistently put terminological insistence upon calling my methodology critical digital archiving and critical digital humanities to reinforce the idea of paying attention to questions of power, epistemic violence, exploitation, and subalternity executed through archiving and digital archiving as built through powerful, logocentric, and centralizing colonial-patriarchal locations.

Through this article and project, I hope to initiate dialogue with the audiences and researchers working towards building a collaborative space in pedagogical institutions with these essential resources and infrastructure and exhibiting diverse voices in digital archives and digital humanities initiatives with an assertion upon contextually situated and critically aware technology, digitalism, and design. In short, this is an attempt at recognizing complexities to reimagine possibilities.