Archipelagos Journal Issue (8)

Issue 8 of ‘Archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis’ delves into the multifaceted role of Papiamentu/o, the primary Creole language of the Dutch Caribbean Leeward islands, as both a living language and a dynamic archive. This special issue examines Papiamentu/o’s historical development, its significance in literary and artistic expressions across Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, and their diasporas, and its contemporary challenges in the digital age. This issue aims to highlight the rich Creole plurality of Papiamentu/o and its significance within the broader context of the Dutch Caribbean’s cultural and historical landscape.

Contents

Introduction

• Editors’ Introduction
  Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil
• Under Pressure Yet Vividly Alive: Papiamentu/o Cultures And Histories In The Digital Realm
  Margo Groenewoud

Essays

• Digital Afterlives of Elis Juliana’s Multimodal Archivism
  Mikayla Vieira Ribeiro
  
• An Invitation to a Trans-Caribbean Data Project: A Pipeline for Historical Caribbean Population Databases
  Björn Quanjer, Thunnis van Oort, Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Cornelis W. (Coen) van Galen, Lisa Hoek, and Erik Tjong Kim Sang
  
• Diaspora and Digital Discourse: Papiamento/u Research in the Digital Archives of Coleccion Aruba
  Jan Bant, Eric Mijts, and Peter Scholing
  
• Humanidades digitales y las colecciones especiales de la Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Puertorriqueña: el caso de la Colección Juan Mari Brás
  Jeanmary Lugo González

Digital Projects

• The Criadas Project: Afro-Puerto Rican Women and Girls in Data and Archival Silhouettes
  Sarah Bruno