Anne Baillot (Le Mans Université), James Baker (University of Sussex), Madiha Zahrah Choksi (Columbia University), Alex Gil (Columbia University), Kaiama L. Glover (Barnard College), Ana Lam (Barnard College), Alicia Peaker (Barnard College), Walter Scholger (University of Graz), Torsten Roeder (University of Wuppertal), and Jo Lindsay Walton (University of Sussex), have authored, “Digital Humanities and the Climate Crisis: A Manifesto.”
Foregrounding a collective desire to center the climate crisis within digital humanities work with imperatives for action, they remind us that digital research has extensive physical and tangible impacts, whether it’s our power consumption using computing resources or traveling by airplane to present at a conference. The authors invite fundamental reimagining our practices in digital humanities, large and small, and for the community to commit to Next Steps.
The climate emergency necessitates these provocations in order to shift our practices towards a just and sustainable DH landscape, both individually as DH practitioners and collectively as a community and as organizations.
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