Digital Humanities, Citizen Science and Feminist History: The Promise and Limits of Digital Mapping

Abstract

One of the co-editors of this special issue of Histoire sociale/Social History, Marc Calvini-Lefebvre, is currently running a digital mapping project which seeks to crowdsource information about the sites of memory dedicated to the suffrage movement around the world and geolocate them on an open-software map. His initiative is one of many digital mapping projects launched by historians of feminism around the world as a means of spreading knowledge about the feminist past to ever-wider audiences but also of exploring new research questions via the methods of the digital humanities. To discuss the promise and limits of digital mapping, Histoire sociale/Social History invited Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge), Sarah Richardson (then University of Warwick, now University of Glasgow), and Marc Calvini-Lefebvre (Aix-Marseille Université) to participate in a forum chaired by Claire Sorin-Delpuech (Aix-Marseille Université). The conversation was edited by Marc Calvini-Lefebvre.