![]() ![]() ![]() By attempting to bring the old and new theoretical approaches in the Humanities in conversation with each other, and through its focus on visual culture, this special issue of Imaginations seeks to highlight the various ways in which decolonizing knowledge production through contemporary interdisciplinary Humanities has become crucial for the struggle over the future practices of academic institutions. Contemporary approaches to the Humanities have pushed the limits of interdisciplinarity by embracing empirical methods such as Digital/Computational Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, and Computational Social Science. The social and cultural concerns brought to light with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic offer a unique window of opportunity one that forces us to confront power relations that have shaped our political, social, cultural and economic life in contemporary society.Īs we enter a new era of digital episteme and scholarship, visual culture has become the gateway for the production and dissemination of knowledge. ![]() The current public health emergency intersects with crises of xenophobia, racism, settler colonialism, ecological degradation, and nationalism, particularly for vulnerable and marginalized groups. ![]()
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