Mobile Heritage : Practices, Interventions, Politics

Mobile Heritage explores how diverse digital technologies (such as apps, GPS, games, social platforms, NFTs, drones, AR, VR, and MR, among others) have allowed for new types of heritage-related mobilities, and thereby established a novel set of practices, interventions, and politics in heritage collections, archives, exhibitions, entertainment, preservation, 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 – thereby 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 related to both tangible and intangible cultural heritage (including art, film, music, historical games, manuscripts, Indigenous knowledge, LGBTQ histories, built architecture, cities, and more) and the involvement of a variety of constituents in recent digital heritage practices and interventions (such as artists, scholars, activists, communities, museums, non-profit organisations, educational institutions, enterprises, and commercial platforms). The contributors are scholars and practitioners drawing on various fields of study and disciplines including museum studies, archaeology, media studies, computing, art history, cultural studies, anthropology, gender studies, mobility studies, and law.

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