149 Book Reviews © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2020 | doi:10.1163/22142312-12340122 Roopika Risam. New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018. 176 pp. ISB N: 978-0-8101-3885-8. Price: $35.95. Roopika Risam’s long-awaited first monograph, titled New Digital Worlds, is a timely and much-needed interface between the ongoing shortfalls in both the digital humanities and contemporary postcolonial studies. In bringing both fields together through the intersectional prism of social justice and commu- nity care, Risam refracts the many facets of identity that, like veiled labour, undergird the complex interface of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, language, and ethnicity. As the book’s subtitle promises, Risam anchors her socio-political and theoretical stakes throughout in the material, public are- nas of theory, praxis, and pedagogy. Perhaps most importantly, like a moral compass embedded in our digital consciousnesses, Risam’s overall oeuvre and concluding call to action elucidate the great potential, agency, and responsibil- ity that netizens have in the digital milieu and beyond in the material world which we all inhabit. The book opens with ‘The Postcolonial Digital Cultural Record’, which offers an account of the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico wrought by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Describing an initiative by the Group for Experimen- tal Methods in the Humanities at Columbia University, Risam deduces that The Puerto Rico Mapathon is an important example of how postcolo- nial digital humanities has come to the fore as an intervention in digital knowledge production through theory, praxis, and pedagogy at the nexus of the humanities and the sciences. Postcolonial digital humanities is an approach to uncovering and intervening in the disruptions within the digital cultural record produced by colonialism and neo-colonialism. While Hurricane Maria exposed the cruelties of neo-colonialism in Puerto Rico, highlighting the Unites States government’s tepid response and indifference to the territory’s debt crisis, mapathon organizers recog- nized the contributions they could make to disaster relief by improving maps of Puerto Rico that populate the digital cultural record. (p. 3) Risam then situates ‘postcolonial digital humanities’ in the notoriously tenu- ous field of the digital humanities, writing that postcolonial digital humanities, along with other interventions like #TransformDH and Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, examines the