1st Edition

Mobile Heritage Practices, Interventions, Politics

Edited By Ana-Maria Herman Copyright 2025
268 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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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)

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Biography

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