About the Event
Join us for a presentation with Tracy Perkins on her research and the racialized politics of knowledge construction on Wikipedia. The presentation will be followed by Q&A.
This is a hybrid event. Students, staff and faculty are invited to join in-person at Durham Hall 240 or online via Zoom.
Perkins has been teaching students to contribute to Wikipedia as part of her upper division undergraduate courses on food, the environment and social justice since 2017. A recent publication coauthored with three prior students uses this assignment to analyze the racialized and gendered knowledge politics of Wikipedia. In this coffee-hour, Perkins will share the ideas informing the next publication she intends to write out of this series of assignments, which will analyze the images used on Wikipedia to show how a variety of forms of knowledge inequality are reproduced visually.
About the Speaker
Tracy Perkins is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation who specializes in social inequality, social movements, and the environment. Her 2022 book, Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism (University of California Press), examines the political evolution of the California environmental justice movement from the 1980s to the mid 2010s. In addition to her peer-reviewed publishing, she also works in photography, oral history, archiving and the digital humanities. See more of her work at tracyperkins.org.
About Digital Humanities at ASU
The Digital Humanities Initiative at ASU defines digital humanities broadly. For our community, DH is both the application of digital tools to investigate humanities research questions and the use of humanities methodologies to interrogate technology and digital culture. The DH initiative is a feminist, anti-racist space.