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        Date: 2024-10-28 15:38:00+00:00
        From: Michael Piotrowski <michael.piotrowski@unil.ch>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 38.206: a (disputable?) thesis

Hi,

Just a brief comment on this point:

On 2024-10-24, Unmil Karadkar <unmil.karadkar@uni-graz.at> wrote:

> Relationship to existing disciplines:
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> I have seen two typical models--universities that setup a DH center/group/unit
> and those that don't. In universities that setup such centers, the people who
> digital techniques tend to cluster around these groups and the rest of the
units
> tend to continue going about their business of humanities largely ignoring the
> DH groups.
>
> In contrast, universities that either don't or resist creating such centers,
the
> DH people form informal communities but remain scattered across various
> humanities department. I don't know that either model is better than the
other.

We’ve looked a bit at institutional arrangements in Switzerland [1] (which may
or may not be a sonderfall), but there’s actually quite a bit of path
dependency, i.e., there are many more possible arrangements, even though they
may not be obvious from the outside.

These arrangements shape the relationship of DH to other disciplines, because
they determine where money, positions, and power are.  And this will influence
whether early career scholars will risk going into a new field or play it safe
and orient themselves towards established disciplines with well-known
expectations.

Best regards,
Michael


Footnotes:
[1]  Michael Piotrowski and Max Kemman (2023). “Institutional Arrangements in
the Absence of Disciplinary Definitions: Digital Humanities in Switzerland”.
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 49.3, pp. 519–540. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0025

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