1st Edition
Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
Difficult heritage and immersive experiences 1
Agiatis Benardou and Anna Maria Droumpouki
1 Difficult heritage and immersive experiences: Immersion,
impersonation and engagement in dangerous pasts – Limits,
effects and ethics of immersive heritage experiences 10
Sharon Macdonald
2 Reflective experiences with immersive heritage 23
Erik Champion
3 Remaking Confucian Rites: Reenactment, immersive
visualization and the revitalization of the marginalized
cosmological body 41
Sarah Kenderdine, Lily Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw and
Tsong-Zung Chang
4 The role of digital technologies in unearthing the Rosewood
Massacre 60
Edward González-Tennant
5 VR as critical historiography: The case of Wadi Salib in Haifa 80
Eytan Mann and Aaron Sprecher
6 Virtual history: VR, immersion and learning Holocaust history 104
Sara Pitcairn, Silvina Fernandez-Duque and Michael Haley Goldman
7 Practices of digital immersion for the study of built
heritage as a promoter of equity in urban sites challenged
by difficult pasts 123
Georgios Artopoulos
8 First-person interactive experience of a concentration camp:
The case of Block 15 145
Agiatis Benardou, Anna Maria Droumpouki and Georgios
Papaioannou
Index 161
Biography
Agiatis Benardou is Senior Research Associate at ATHENA Research Center in Athens, Greece, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business.
Anna Maria Droumpouki is Research Associate at Ludwig-Maximilians- University München, Institute of Eastern and Southeastern European History.
