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Ian Kisil Marino: Digital History from the Margins? Latin American Perspectives on an Emerging Field

The globalized rhetoric surrounding digital transformation often translates into presumptions of universalization within the field of digital history, which is then discussed in a generic sense, as if it were established on common ground. This correlates with history itself, which developed as a modern discipline in the nineteenth century under the pretense of the universalization of time and historical methods. One should notice, however, that the conditions in which forms of knowledge develop depend on multiple factors of a cultural, political, and economic nature, as has been well debated by multiple facets of anti-colonial thought, for example. When dealing with a field such as digital history, which has developed so closely attached to the need for digital infrastructure, computational skills, and innovation, one should notice that inequality plays a major role in preventing ubiquity on a global scale.

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