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"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.

Durch die voranschreitende Digitalisierung und den Einsatz von computerunterstützten Methoden eröffnen sich für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften neue Möglichkeiten. Dieses Studienbuch stellt die Grundlagen zu den Digital Humanities ("digitale Geisteswissenschaften") in den Geschichtswissenschaften dar und macht mit wesentlichen Ansätzen und Debatten vertraut. Auf der Basis eines Kreislaufs des geschichtswissenschaftlichen Arbeitens verfolgt das Buch einen praxisorientierten Zugang entlang der Schritte des Forschungsprozesses.

The article deals with the philosophical and methodological views of N.I. Kareev (1850–1931) whose name was usually associated with World History studies. Based on the materials of the partially published work "General Methodology of Humanities", the authors put the question of the relevance of Kareev's theoreti­cal and methodological research at the time of paper's writing. The authors note that Kareev interpreted the concept of "humanities" as broadly as possible. This concept includes the Social Studies, which he opposed to the Natural sciences and set them apart from the "cultural". It can be considered that Kareev's enthu­siasm for the philosophical theories was caused by his personal interest and the necessity of historiography to justify its scientific and cognitive status. The article is accompanied by the extract of the sixth chapter "Theoretical Hu­manities" of the work "General Methodology of Humanities" dedicated to the theoretical problems of studying the phenomena that represent the subjects of the humanities. In the published fragments Kareev tried to trace how these two di­rections were formed in the humanities: the theoretical (deductive method) and the historical (inductive method). He interpreted the development of science as a transition from metaphysics to empirical knowledge based on facts. The au­thors conclude that by the time the text was prepared (early 1920s), Kareev's ap­proach was perceived as outdated.

International audience ; We must keep in mind some numerical data when we evoke the transition from the paper to the digital age. In particular, the following contrast speaksfor itself:1. All the books ever written represent 50 billion bytes.2. The information produced in 2006 represents 150 quintillion (150 x 1018) bytes. That is to say, during 2006 alone, the world produced three milliontimes the informational content of all the books ever written.3. Things continue in this way at high speed: the only internet track of May 2009 has generated 500 billion bytes.Thus, our paper-based heritage is already a tiny fraction of what the human race has produced and this fraction decreases, relatively, every day. Viewingthese data, the conception of a digitization enterprise should be thought of and considered by humanists as enlarged. The narrow acceptance of theproject – the view that it is merely a technical process of converting our paper-borne heritage into electronic form – is dramatically insufficient. Toparaphrase Clemenceau's famous words about war and militaries, digitization may be too serious a thing to be left to the digitizers alone. Scholarsmust face the issue and understand it as one of the most important problems they have to deal with and, as I will argue, as a real opportunity to renewtheir practices and disciplines.

International audience ; We must keep in mind some numerical data when we evoke the transition from the paper to the digital age. In particular, the following contrast speaksfor itself:1. All the books ever written represent 50 billion bytes.2. The information produced in 2006 represents 150 quintillion (150 x 1018) bytes. That is to say, during 2006 alone, the world produced three milliontimes the informational content of all the books ever written.3. Things continue in this way at high speed: the only internet track of May 2009 has generated 500 billion bytes.Thus, our paper-based heritage is already a tiny fraction of what the human race has produced and this fraction decreases, relatively, every day. Viewingthese data, the conception of a digitization enterprise should be thought of and considered by humanists as enlarged. The narrow acceptance of theproject – the view that it is merely a technical process of converting our paper-borne heritage into electronic form – is dramatically insufficient. Toparaphrase Clemenceau's famous words about war and militaries, digitization may be too serious a thing to be left to the digitizers alone. Scholarsmust face the issue and understand it as one of the most important problems they have to deal with and, as I will argue, as a real opportunity to renewtheir practices and disciplines.

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This chapter reviews a range of scholarship working at the intersection of queer theory and critical medical humanities in 2022 and 2023 under the following headings: 1. HIV/AIDS; 2. Healthcare Environments; 3. Trans Health Studies; 4. Bioethics. The chapter sets out emergent movements within queer medical humanities and articulates how scholars utilize queer theory and analysis to encourage critical change within medical and healthcare theory and practice. The chapter provides a baseline for understanding how queer theory is adapted to interdisciplinary studies, especially in the UK and Europe.

This volume in 'The SAGE Reference Series on Disability' explores the arts and humanities within the lives of people with disabilities. It is one of 8 volumes in the issue-based and cross-disciplinary series, which incorporates links from varied fields making up Disability Studies as volumes examine topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families

AbstractHumanities education and research have been a critical foundation of societies for centuries. However, societal change and the broadening of tertiary education over time have negatively affected the position and perception of the humanities, at least in relative terms. This article aims to redress this slide, informing discussion by bringing together new and existing evidence. We find that businesses, governments and societies in general benefit from humanities‐educated individuals. We also find the humanities can improve students' job and earning prospects and equip them with a range of technical and transferrable skills.