Jo Guldi
Biographic Data
| ID | 87615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Guldi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Guldi |
| SIGNATURE | GULDI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5085-0738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Paradox of the Present Era: AI as Environmental Liberation and Leviathan
The Revolution in Text Mining for Historical Analysis is Here
Journal Article The Revolution in Text Mining for Historical Analysis is Here Get access Jo Guldi Jo Guldi Southern Methodist University, US Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5085-0738 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 519–543, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae163 Published: 13 June 2024
The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History
The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new research now possible because of text mining: the art of counting words over time. However, this book also presents a warning: without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors. The book opens with a rogue's gallery of errors, then tours the ground-breaking analyses that have resulted from collaborations between humanists and data scientists. Jo…
Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History
Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War , by Niall Whelehan
Journal Article Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War, by Niall Whelehan Get access Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War, by Niall Whelehan (New York: New York University Press, 2021; pp. 216. $30). Jo Guldi Jo Guldi Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead198, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/…
The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
This book offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years. The book tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analy…
Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
The Questionable Effectiveness of Bibliography
This chapter discusses the interpretation of the politics and utopianism of a bibliography, which requires a careful reading of its pedestrian genre as it is easily overlooked as a tool of making myths and destroying memories. The chapter recounts how the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) began collecting a library and issuing bibliographies, becoming a publisher of pamphlets, books, and maps of increasing number and ambition. Beginning in …
On Failing to Make a Map in Time
This chapter describes writing, maps, and other devices of paper as instruments of power, as only the few could read in colonial India and most nations under British rule. During the Raj, and for many centuries before it, written laws tended to reflect the values of these literate few. The chapter talks about Indian economists and American observers that agreed on the historical role of paper under colonization: Britain's regime of paper document…
Connected Ogres: Global Sources in the Digital Era
International audience
Connected ogres: Global sources in the digital era
The Algorithm
Can statistics help historians to identify the events that are most distinctive of a particular era of time? This essay explores the use of a distinctiveness algorithm from library science for measuring the distinctiveness of manuscripts, tf-idf, recast as "tf-ipf" for the study of the terms most distinctive of historical periods. In a case study, tf-ipf is applied to the text of Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, varying the "period" from a 20-yea…
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines
How shall we judge the element of practicality or urgency for scholars working in the era of the 2030 deadline for action on climate change? This essay surveys the reaction to climate change by scholars who work with data, using the philosopher Stephen Gardiner's conceit of "corrupt institutions" to organize the approaches according to an index of pragmatic orientation. This survey will lead to the identification of some challenges for those seek…
The Role of Critical Thinking in Humanities Infrastructure: The Pipeline Concept with a Study of HaToRI (Hansard Topic Relevance Identifier)
This article proposes the concept of the pipeline as a category of tool that organizes a series of algorithms for users. The pipeline concept, adopted with limitations by the humanities, documents how a suite of algorithms produces a particular research result, with the goal of enabling interoperability, transparency, and iteration by future scholars who may switch out particular algorithms within the pipeline with different results. A pipeline-b…
Scholarly Infrastructure as Critical Argument: Nine principles in a preliminary survey of the bibliographic and critical values expressed by scholarly web-portals for visualizing data
What values does infrastructure-building represent? This article begins by situating scholarly practices around infrastructure within a broader transformation of twenty-first century life and indeed scholarship and learning by infrastructures, and distinguishing scholarly infrastructure from other kinds of infrastructure designed to share information that nevertheless lack scholarly engagement with analysis. This article compares the role of scho…
History’s Future in the Age of the Internet
Ian Milligan’s History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research (2019) presents and interrogates the challenges and opportunities that born-digital materials have for historians. Milligan argues that historians who wish to grapple with the archived internet need to think much more aggressively about engaging with digital methods and tools that can complement and extend the well-honed practices of close reading with…
Another Take on Quantitative Methods: Claire Lemercier and Claire Zalc, Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
Isu pemanasan global akhir-akhir ini semakin berkembang sehingga industri dituntut untuk lebih memperhatikan limbah yang dihasilkan dan meminimalkan dampak lingkungan. Proses pengemasan adalah salah satu bagian yang menghasilkan limbah. Komputer adalah salah satu produk yang menggunakan cukup banyak kemasan. Pada perancangan ini penulis membahas kemasan komputer merek Hewlett-Packard (HP). Tujuan perancangan ini adalah mengetahui dampak lingkunga…
Parliament's Debates about Infrastructure: An Exercise in Using Dynamic Topic Models to Synthesize Historical Change
Can "distant reading" and digital tools enhance the history of technology by revealing hitherto undetected patterns in the record? Using the parliamentary debates of Britain in the nineteenth century, this essay revisits the history of infrastructure in the British empire, asking how tools compare with secondary sources. The author applies topic modeling and dynamic topic modeling to synthesize the historical record, and finds that the results la…
The Modern Paradigms of Explanation: Significance, Agency, and Writing History in the Era of Climate Change
When has a historical narrative offered a satisfactorily “complete” explanation of an event? In order to understand how useful archetypal narratives are in terms of historical explanation, this essay tests these paradigms for “completeness” in historical explanation, operationalizing the distinction between explanans and explanandum, the latter category of which implies that an argument for how an event matters is a criterion of a complete histor…
Critical Search: A Procedure for Guided Reading in Large-Scale Textual Corpora
Q: What happens when the good, old-fashioned virtues of Liberal Arts education, e.g. "Critical Thinking," enter the age of big data?\nA: We teach "Critical Search," a model process for approaching big data research. Critical Search models a way of engaging humanities question, textuality, secondary literature, data, and tools. It is suitable to both the statistician who wishes to make meaning from the past as well as the traditional humanist who …
A History of the Participatory Map
From the 1970s, international networks spanning New Delhi to the Cree tribes of Canada collaborated in experimenting with many-to-many mapping. Their work generated techniques for the participatory management of land use that preceded the creation of the many-to-many map online and, in many ways, surpassed the radicality of its politics
Landscape and Place
The Case for Utopia: History and the Possible Meanings of Brexit a Hundred Years On
How likely are utopian futures of the kind that Jeremy Corbyn has recently envisioned for the future of post-Brexit Britain? Such utopian scheming to restore the welfare state at the cost of the state gibes with the forecast of austerity from the Chancellor’s office, and pronouncements from canny observers that a post-EU Britain will need cash to support even its current programs, and therefore be forced to come to terms with the demands of banks…
Longing for the Longue Durée
The authors of The History Manifesto respond to the Viewpoint commentary and extend the dialogue between the book's arguments and the recent historiography of science, technology, and medicine
The History Manifesto
How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term history - so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Gu…
Le retour de la longue durée: Une Perspective Anglo-Américaine
Depuis les années 1970, la plupart des historiens anglophones ont travaillé sur des périodes temporelles s'étendant de cinq à cinquante ans. L'étroitesse de ce champ de vision, ce repli face aux périodes plus longues généralement étudiées jusqu'alors, ont contribué à détacher d'eux un lectorat plus large ainsi qu'à les priver de l'influence qu'ils avaient pu avoir sur le débat public. Cet article étudie les causes et les conséquences de ce repli …
The History Manifesto: A Reply to Deborah Cohen and Peter Mandler
IT IS IN THE NATURE OF MANIFESTOS to be hopeful, forward-looking, and somewhat provocative.As the name suggests, manifestos strive to be open, to make evident what might otherwise be obscure.Ever since Marx and Engels irreversibly reconfigured the genre's authoritative, sovereign form in the mid-nineteenth century, manifestos have been both rhetorical and practical, diagnostic as well as reformative: they discern problems and offer sometimes utop…
The History of Walking and the Digital Turn: Stride and Lounge in London, 1808-1851
Parliament's Debates about Infrastructure: An Exercise in Using Dynamic Topic Models to Synthesize Historical Change
Can "distant reading" and digital tools enhance the history of technology by revealing hitherto undetected patterns in the record? Using the parliamentary debates of Britain in the nineteenth century, this essay revisits the history of infrastructure in the British empire, asking how tools compare with secondary sources. The author applies topic modeling and dynamic topic modeling to synthesize the historical record, and finds that the results la…
A History of the Participatory Map
From the 1970s, international networks spanning New Delhi to the Cree tribes of Canada collaborated in experimenting with many-to-many mapping. Their work generated techniques for the participatory management of land use that preceded the creation of the many-to-many map online and, in many ways, surpassed the radicality of its politics
The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History: Pragmatic Approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Text Mining, and Affiliated Disciplines
How shall we judge the element of practicality or urgency for scholars working in the era of the 2030 deadline for action on climate change? This essay surveys the reaction to climate change by scholars who work with data, using the philosopher Stephen Gardiner's conceit of "corrupt institutions" to organize the approaches according to an index of pragmatic orientation. This survey will lead to the identification of some challenges for those seek…
The Case for Utopia: History and the Possible Meanings of Brexit a Hundred Years On
How likely are utopian futures of the kind that Jeremy Corbyn has recently envisioned for the future of post-Brexit Britain? Such utopian scheming to restore the welfare state at the cost of the state gibes with the forecast of austerity from the Chancellor’s office, and pronouncements from canny observers that a post-EU Britain will need cash to support even its current programs, and therefore be forced to come to terms with the demands of banks…
Pour une ' histoire ambitieuse
Cet article répond aux multiples critiques formulées contre la thèse de David Armitage et Jo Guldi selon laquelle la longue durée est de retour après une période de retrait et qu'elle fait bien de revenir, afin de faire revivre la discipline historique comme une science humaine critique. Ils soutiennent que la longue durée a des significations différentes selon les traditions historiques ; que son importance pour le public non universitaire ne se…
Longing for the Longue Durée
The authors of The History Manifesto respond to the Viewpoint commentary and extend the dialogue between the book's arguments and the recent historiography of science, technology, and medicine
The uses of planning and the decay of strategy
The development and decay of Western thought on military planning over three centuries privileged one form of strategic thinking over another, reducing the ability of Western armed forces to deal with contemporary threats. The new military science called, by 1810, ‘strategy’, promised victory within a framework that privileged long-term institutional and state security. Building on anthropological, historical, and sociological insight, driven by …
Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State
Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unfores…
The History of Walking and the Digital Turn: Stride and Lounge in London, 1808-1851
The History Manifesto
How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term history - so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Gu…
The History Manifesto: A Reply to Deborah Cohen and Peter Mandler
IT IS IN THE NATURE OF MANIFESTOS to be hopeful, forward-looking, and somewhat provocative.As the name suggests, manifestos strive to be open, to make evident what might otherwise be obscure.Ever since Marx and Engels irreversibly reconfigured the genre's authoritative, sovereign form in the mid-nineteenth century, manifestos have been both rhetorical and practical, diagnostic as well as reformative: they discern problems and offer sometimes utop…
Le retour de la longue durée: Une Perspective Anglo-Américaine
Depuis les années 1970, la plupart des historiens anglophones ont travaillé sur des périodes temporelles s'étendant de cinq à cinquante ans. L'étroitesse de ce champ de vision, ce repli face aux périodes plus longues généralement étudiées jusqu'alors, ont contribué à détacher d'eux un lectorat plus large ainsi qu'à les priver de l'influence qu'ils avaient pu avoir sur le débat public. Cet article étudie les causes et les conséquences de ce repli …
Pour une ' histoire ambitieuse
Cet article répond aux multiples critiques formulées contre la thèse de David Armitage et Jo Guldi selon laquelle la longue durée est de retour après une période de retrait et qu'elle fait bien de revenir, afin de faire revivre la discipline historique comme une science humaine critique. Ils soutiennent que la longue durée a des significations différentes selon les traditions historiques ; que son importance pour le public non universitaire ne se…
Landscape and Place
The Case for Utopia: History and the Possible Meanings of Brexit a Hundred Years On
How likely are utopian futures of the kind that Jeremy Corbyn has recently envisioned for the future of post-Brexit Britain? Such utopian scheming to restore the welfare state at the cost of the state gibes with the forecast of austerity from the Chancellor’s office, and pronouncements from canny observers that a post-EU Britain will need cash to support even its current programs, and therefore be forced to come to terms with the demands of banks…
Longing for the Longue Durée
The authors of The History Manifesto respond to the Viewpoint commentary and extend the dialogue between the book's arguments and the recent historiography of science, technology, and medicine
A History of the Participatory Map
From the 1970s, international networks spanning New Delhi to the Cree tribes of Canada collaborated in experimenting with many-to-many mapping. Their work generated techniques for the participatory management of land use that preceded the creation of the many-to-many map online and, in many ways, surpassed the radicality of its politics
Critical Search: A Procedure for Guided Reading in Large-Scale Textual Corpora
Q: What happens when the good, old-fashioned virtues of Liberal Arts education, e.g. "Critical Thinking," enter the age of big data?\nA: We teach "Critical Search," a model process for approaching big data research. Critical Search models a way of engaging humanities question, textuality, secondary literature, data, and tools. It is suitable to both the statistician who wishes to make meaning from the past as well as the traditional humanist who …
Parliament's Debates about Infrastructure: An Exercise in Using Dynamic Topic Models to Synthesize Historical Change
Can "distant reading" and digital tools enhance the history of technology by revealing hitherto undetected patterns in the record? Using the parliamentary debates of Britain in the nineteenth century, this essay revisits the history of infrastructure in the British empire, asking how tools compare with secondary sources. The author applies topic modeling and dynamic topic modeling to synthesize the historical record, and finds that the results la…
The Modern Paradigms of Explanation: Significance, Agency, and Writing History in the Era of Climate Change
When has a historical narrative offered a satisfactorily “complete” explanation of an event? In order to understand how useful archetypal narratives are in terms of historical explanation, this essay tests these paradigms for “completeness” in historical explanation, operationalizing the distinction between explanans and explanandum, the latter category of which implies that an argument for how an event matters is a criterion of a complete histor…
The Role of Critical Thinking in Humanities Infrastructure: The Pipeline Concept with a Study of HaToRI (Hansard Topic Relevance Identifier)
This article proposes the concept of the pipeline as a category of tool that organizes a series of algorithms for users. The pipeline concept, adopted with limitations by the humanities, documents how a suite of algorithms produces a particular research result, with the goal of enabling interoperability, transparency, and iteration by future scholars who may switch out particular algorithms within the pipeline with different results. A pipeline-b…
Scholarly Infrastructure as Critical Argument: Nine principles in a preliminary survey of the bibliographic and critical values expressed by scholarly web-portals for visualizing data
What values does infrastructure-building represent? This article begins by situating scholarly practices around infrastructure within a broader transformation of twenty-first century life and indeed scholarship and learning by infrastructures, and distinguishing scholarly infrastructure from other kinds of infrastructure designed to share information that nevertheless lack scholarly engagement with analysis. This article compares the role of scho…
History’s Future in the Age of the Internet
Ian Milligan’s History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research (2019) presents and interrogates the challenges and opportunities that born-digital materials have for historians. Milligan argues that historians who wish to grapple with the archived internet need to think much more aggressively about engaging with digital methods and tools that can complement and extend the well-honed practices of close reading with…
Another Take on Quantitative Methods: Claire Lemercier and Claire Zalc, Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
Isu pemanasan global akhir-akhir ini semakin berkembang sehingga industri dituntut untuk lebih memperhatikan limbah yang dihasilkan dan meminimalkan dampak lingkungan. Proses pengemasan adalah salah satu bagian yang menghasilkan limbah. Komputer adalah salah satu produk yang menggunakan cukup banyak kemasan. Pada perancangan ini penulis membahas kemasan komputer merek Hewlett-Packard (HP). Tujuan perancangan ini adalah mengetahui dampak lingkunga…
The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
This book offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years. The book tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analy…
Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
The Questionable Effectiveness of Bibliography
This chapter discusses the interpretation of the politics and utopianism of a bibliography, which requires a careful reading of its pedestrian genre as it is easily overlooked as a tool of making myths and destroying memories. The chapter recounts how the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) began collecting a library and issuing bibliographies, becoming a publisher of pamphlets, books, and maps of increasing number and ambition. Beginning in …
On Failing to Make a Map in Time
This chapter describes writing, maps, and other devices of paper as instruments of power, as only the few could read in colonial India and most nations under British rule. During the Raj, and for many centuries before it, written laws tended to reflect the values of these literate few. The chapter talks about Indian economists and American observers that agreed on the historical role of paper under colonization: Britain's regime of paper document…
Connected Ogres: Global Sources in the Digital Era
International audience
Connected ogres: Global sources in the digital era
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