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The chapter “Infrastructures for Diversity Feminist and Queer Interventions in Nordic Digital Humanities” examines how digital infrastructures, based in the humanities, can make room for feminist, queer and activist perspectives. Two projects, Expansion and Diversity and Queerlit, are examined and the authors demonstrate the importance of creating new partnerships and research contexts outside established structures.

Both projects challenge institutionalized power structures within academic infrastructures. In the case of the Expansion Project, it is about re-establishing marginalized places, actors and materials of the performing arts in collaboration with practitioners, and for Queerlit, it is about modifying a bibliographic database in collaboration with actors in the field to make the cultural heritage of LGBTQI literature visible.

To support diversity, inclusion and democracy, it is important that digital infrastructures are based on a theoretical understanding of power relations, and have a close interaction with individuals and groups outside the academy. This is not only about the representation of diversity, but also about the quality of contextualization, interpretation and dissemination of data.

About the authors: 

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Jenny Bergenmar, Professor of Literary Studies at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, University 91̽��.

Cecilia Lindhé, Director of GRIDH: Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities, University 91̽��.

Astrid von Rosen, Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the Department of Cultural 91̽��s and Director of the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, University 91̽��.

The book Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice (ed. Lisa Marie Rhody & Susan Schreibman) published by University of Illinois Press, 2025 is available open access::