REWIND
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Principal Investigator
- Alba Comino
Description
Taken from the project website (Accessed 2025-12-08):
Objectives
The main aim of REWIND is to analyse how the narratives around the European cultural heritage have been constructed using Latin American women’s travel literature from the early 20th century. In this way, the unique History model based on androcentric, Eurocentric, and patriarchal discourses will be counteracted, showing that the European cultural heritage is a multivocal and diverse sociocultural construction. This project uses an interdisciplinary methodology based on Digital Humanities and gender decolonial approaches, and it is structured into specific research and innovation objectives:
- To reconstruct the travellers’ itineraries.
- To connect the information using Linked Open Data.
- To recognise impressions associated with the European cultural heritage.
- To determine the relationship between European cultural heritage and otherness processes.
Methodology
The innovation of this proposal lies in applying ground-breaking methodology from Digital Humanities that combines History, Geography and Literature with Computer Science to study narrative constructions about European cultural heritage from the perspective of the otherness. REWIND will use Latin American women’s travel books from the early 20th century, an underutilised source, to analyse historical discourses. Besides, REWIND will focus on marginalised perspectives because History is multivocal. Therefore, the proposal explores the authors’ projections on European cultural heritageusing gender decolonial approaches because Latin American women have agency as cultural mediators. So, REWIND analyses their perception of the European cultural heritagemapping not only their travels, but also their impressions. Furthermore, the extracted information from the selected book will be link with different Open GLAM collections data to promote new ways of interacting with the past.