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This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary 'law and' field. Each chapter is written by an expert in the respective field and addresses how the two disciplines of law and the other respective field operate. This edited work, therefore, fulfils a real and pressing need to provide an accessible, introductory but critical guide to law and humanities as a whole by exploring how each disciplinary 'law and' field has developed, contributes to further scrutinizing the content and role of law, and how it can contribute and be enriched by being understood within the law and humanities tradition as a whole.

The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors' experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field's cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions.

This essay approaches games and gamification as a major problematic of the still emerging digital humanities. Games—through their mechanics, procedurality, navigable worlds, and multimedia interactions—call for new literacies that exceed traditional reading and writing skills. Digital games demand new ways of perceiving and working. They seem to matter to the unfolding of the twenty-first-century everyday, even if we do not always recognize precisely how they matter. Following an introduction to the cultural significance of digital games in the present moment, this essay turns to the Game Changer Chicago (gcc) Design Lab that Jagoda cofounded with University of Chicago doctor and health researcher Melissa Gilliam. The essay explores the ways that the gcc Design Lab's transdisciplinary and narrative-based alternate reality game project, The Source, intervenes in the contemporary situation of the humanities. In particular, The Source's game design and play processes offer insight into four areas: 1) the relationship between the digital humanities and social justice; 2) the affordances of transmedia design as a research method in the humanities; 3) the importance of collaboration as a key organizational technique for the humanities; and 4) the changing relationship between the humanities and sciences. While games are no panacea for the digital humanities, they are a key cultural form and critical site of negotiation in which humanists, artists, designers, technologists, scientists, and educators might productively experiment together.

Ist Facebook eine zeithistorische Quelle, und wer archiviert die Tweets der Politiker? Wie nutzt man digitale Quellen, und wie verändert sich die Quellenkritik, wenn die Kopie sich vom Original nicht mehr unterscheiden lässt? Seit Beginn der 2010er-Jahre wird unter dem Stichwort "Digital Humanities" insbesondere im angelsächsischen Raum eine intensive Debatte über neue Potenziale für die Geisteswissenschaften geführt: Peter Haber zeichnet in seinem Beitrag die Entwicklung der Digital Humanities nach und fragt, ob sich mit der Digitalisierung nicht nur die Qualität und Quantität der Quellen, sondern auch der gesamte Arbeitsprozess von Zeithistoriker/innen verändert hat.

In the present paper, we analyze the publication strategies of researchers in the humanities, including their choices of language, publication type and co-authorship. Based on data from Denmark, we compare the publication profile of the humanities with the other major fields of science in 2012 and analyze changes in publication strategies within the humanities between 1992 and 2012. We show that the publication strategies of humanities (and social science) researchers differ systematically from the publication strategies of researchers in the medical sciences, natural sciences and engineering. We also show that while the publication strategies of humanities researchers have been relatively stable around the turn of the millennium, English has replaced Danish as the preferred language. We consider various causal mechanisms that have shaped the linguistic strategies of humanities researchers. While disciplinary variations in publication strategies can be explained by the censorship of the individual disciplines and their audience structures, an explanation of the general increase in the use of English language has to be sought outside the field of humanities. We argue that the specific conjuncture of the European Union's internationalization policies in the 1990s and 2000s and a change in the international scientific hierarchy during the 20th century has contributed to the universalization of English in the Danish (and European) scientific field.

"Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical humanities and digital humanities before it, overcomes traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Like its predecessors, energy humanities highlights the essential contribution that the insights and methods of the human sciences can make to areas of study and analysis once thought best left to the natural sciences. This isn't a case of the humanities simply helping their cross-campus colleagues to learn the mechanics of communication so that they might better articulate their ideas. Rather, these fields of scholarship are ones that demonstrate how the scale and complexity of the issues being explored demand insights and approaches that transcend old school disciplinary boundaries. Energy Humanities : A Reader offers a carefully curated selection of the best and most influential work in energy humanities that has appeared over the past decade. To stay true to the diverse work that makes up this emergent field, selections range from anthropology and geography to philosophy, history, and cultural studies to recent energy-focused interventions in art and literature. The three readers all agree that this is an important, ground-breaking collection of work"--Provided by publisher

Since independence, African scholars from different traditions (African, Islamic and Western), intellectuals, and politicians have been actively engaging with humanities and social sciences originating from the West and received through the conduit of colonial rule and imperial domination. Both the filiation and the packaging of the knowledge made it suspect and irrelevant to postcolonial societies. But until today the two axiomatic assumptions of knowledge production, policy-oriented/problem-solving research and/or academic research (reduced mainly to humanities), are being resolved at the expense of the latter, circumscribing the territory in which the debate is conducted. It focuses on the possibility (or not) of producing a vernacular conceptual framework, radically detached from the Western colonial social sciences and humanities and its revision by the inclusion of location, race, culture, identities, and alterity. South Africa, which has been inflicted by a vicious racial discrimination and economic exploitation, is leading the discussion, picking up the flag of the decolonization of knowledge.