Mobile Heritage: Practices, Interventions, Politics

by Ana-Maria Herman (Editor)

Overview

Mobile Heritage explores how diverse digital technologies (such as apps, GPS, games, social platforms, NFTs, drones, AR, MR, and AI, among others) have allowed for new types of mobilities and introduced a novel set of practices, interventions, and politics for heritage collections, archives, exhibitions, entertainment, conservation, management, commerce, education, restitution, activism, and regulation.

The volume is not a ‘how to’ book. Instead, it critically examines this emerging landscape and its unsettling of existing relations between heritage and knowledge, value, identity, power, sense of place, community, nationhood, and ownership – thus outlining a new set of issues, implications, and consequences. The volume brings together case studies from around the world and each chapter considers mobility matters associated with tangible and intangible cultural heritage (relating to art, film, music, games, manuscripts, traditional knowledge, architecture, cities, and more) and the involvement of a variety of actors in digital heritage practices and interventions (such as artists, activists, communities, museums, non-profit organisations, educational institutions, enterprises, and governmental agencies). The contributors are scholars and practitioners drawing on various disciplines and fields of study, including archaeology, museum studies, media studies, computing, art history, cultural studies, anthropology, gender studies, mobility studies, and law. 

Mobile Heritage positions mobility as a critical tool for understanding the changing (digital) heritage landscape, making this volume an essential read for students, academics, and practitioners engaged in this area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032509181
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/22/2025
Series:	Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ana-Maria Herman is Associate Professor at University of Greenwich, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What is mobile heritage? (Ana-Maria Herman); 1 No freedom, no honour: Red Dead Redemption 2 and heritage as procedural rhetoric (Leighton Evans); 2 Museum pieces or stealing the show? NFTs and the story of cinematic heritage in fragments (Johanna Gibson); 3 Digital mobilisation: A just restitution? The transfer to Ethiopia of digitised manuscript copies by the British Library (Eyob Derillo and Alexander Herman); 4 Open Cabinet: Critically contextualising contested heritage through augmented reality (Joanna Rivera-Carlisle and Kathryn Eccles); 5 The use of drone technology in the conservation of conflict-affected heritage: The case of Vila do Ibo, Mozambique (Kristen Barrett-Casey);  6 The museum response to the Art NFT: Reinventing (digital) collections and the promise of economic mobilities (Emily Gould); 7 Coffee with a Codex and #manuscriptASMR: Showcasing rare books as a heritage practice (Nicholas Herman and Dot Porter); 8 Reconstructing the Yi identity through popular music and social media in China (Junmin Liu); 9 Hybrid spaces and geolocative mobile apps for LGBTQ heritage (Visa Immonen); 10 Mobile realities beyond vision and photorealism: On collaborative user explorations with Indigenous heritage and the use of intelligent contestation in Australia (Erik Champion and Hafizur Rahaman); 11 The Virtual Illés Initiative: Remediating architectures of information within a 3D, real-time visualisation of 19th-century Jerusalem (Maryvelma Smith O’Neil and Andrew Yip); 12 Digital interventions in art world gender politics: The +Archive Gwen John app and the (im)mobilising power of copyright (Ana-Maria Herman); Index.