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Reviews in Digital Humanities, 2022
DECIMA is a historical geographic information system (HGIS) platform for spatial analysis of hist... more DECIMA is a historical geographic information system (HGIS) platform for spatial analysis of historical data from 16th-and 17th-century Tuscany. It maps databases created from contemporary manuscript sources onto two-and three-dimensional renderings of the early modern cities of Florence and Livorno. DECIMA consists of a series of interactive thematic maps hosted on its website and a sandbox-style GIS app allowing users to query, analyze, and visualize its datasets according to their own research needs. It is a member project of the Florentia Illustrata research consortium, organized under the aegis of the Harvard "Villa I Tatti" Centre for
Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 2020
Book Reviews by Diona Espinosa
Skene Journal, 2022
This study offers an alternative viewpoint for understanding contemporary Cuba after the 2000s fr... more This study offers an alternative viewpoint for understanding contemporary Cuba after the 2000s from a performance studies perspective. Staging Discomfort: Performance and Queerness in Contemporary Cuba by Bretton White discusses how performing queerness in contemporary Cuban theater can also promote a counternarrative that criticizes the state’s failing rhetoric about socialism and revolution in Cuba. She concentrates on queer bodies to examine key concepts like race, sex, marginalization, citizenship, and the state. The book considers five plays by Cuban playwrights that have been judged subversive, or have been censored or met with minimal official recognition from state cultural institutions. From the title one can already appreciate the questioning of the official Cuban cultural archive and political agenda. This selection brings to light an absent and urgent topic in current Cuban performance studies. In addition, it evokes a practice of resistance through artistic expression, as theater-makers and even audiences refuse to be silenced, reprimanded, or forgotten from their right to live in an inclusive and democratic country.
Reviews in Digital Humanities, 2022
DECIMA is a historical geographic information system (HGIS) platform for spatial analysis of hist... more DECIMA is a historical geographic information system (HGIS) platform for spatial analysis of historical data from 16th-and 17th-century Tuscany. It maps databases created from contemporary manuscript sources onto two-and three-dimensional renderings of the early modern cities of Florence and Livorno. DECIMA consists of a series of interactive thematic maps hosted on its website and a sandbox-style GIS app allowing users to query, analyze, and visualize its datasets according to their own research needs. It is a member project of the Florentia Illustrata research consortium, organized under the aegis of the Harvard "Villa I Tatti" Centre for
Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 2020
Skene Journal, 2022
This study offers an alternative viewpoint for understanding contemporary Cuba after the 2000s fr... more This study offers an alternative viewpoint for understanding contemporary Cuba after the 2000s from a performance studies perspective. Staging Discomfort: Performance and Queerness in Contemporary Cuba by Bretton White discusses how performing queerness in contemporary Cuban theater can also promote a counternarrative that criticizes the state’s failing rhetoric about socialism and revolution in Cuba. She concentrates on queer bodies to examine key concepts like race, sex, marginalization, citizenship, and the state. The book considers five plays by Cuban playwrights that have been judged subversive, or have been censored or met with minimal official recognition from state cultural institutions. From the title one can already appreciate the questioning of the official Cuban cultural archive and political agenda. This selection brings to light an absent and urgent topic in current Cuban performance studies. In addition, it evokes a practice of resistance through artistic expression, as theater-makers and even audiences refuse to be silenced, reprimanded, or forgotten from their right to live in an inclusive and democratic country.