Chapter
One:
Globalisation
The struggle over geography in which we are all a part is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas; about forms about images and imaginations. (Edward Said 1993)
This chapter discusses the intellectual content of Milkbar.com.au by recounting the decisions taken in its theoretical positioning,
geographical placement and methodological approach. Although as I have asserted, its intellectual content is inextricably linked to its electronic expression, it is worth clarifying the decisions taken in gathering and publishing the interviews here. This is because, as I will argue, this work addresses
one of the most pressing (but neglected) issues of electronic scholarship in the Humanities.
This issue is how do we use this medium not only to republish, preserve or provide broad access to pre-existing archives in innovative ways, but how do we use this medium (through exploring avenues of inquiry that
are generated by the technologies themselves) to authoritatively express other cultural phenomena that are of interest to the Humanities?
The
cultural phenomenon that Milkbar.com.au seeks to articulate
is historical change within an inner-city community through
the hermeneutics of globalisation. As I will argue this is a
salient question for the particular style of electronic scholarship
that I have employed. Another investigation that perhaps concentrated
upon republishing pre-existing archives (which is the seminal
underlying belief within Humanities Computing) would have required
a dissimilar conceptual and technical schema. more>>
Authored
by Craig BellamyŠ 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
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