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How does digital heritage reproduce colonial hierarchies of power—or help resist them? In the first episode of Living Culture, Making Heritage, Digital Humanities and archival scholar Dr. Kate Simpson (University of Glasgow) sits down with Kate Huber to unpack why heritage is always political. From repatriation to the Global North–South digital divide, they explore how infrastructures, platforms, and access shape what gets preserved, shared, and valued. Recorded during Simpson’s visit to Tilburg University, this conversation asks: who gets to be visible in the archive, and on whose terms?
How does digital heritage reproduce colonial hierarchies of power—or help resist them? In the first episode of Living Culture, Making Heritage, Digital Humanities and archival scholar Dr. Kate Simpson (University of Glasgow) sits down with Kate Huber to unpack why heritage is always political. From repatriation to the Global North–South digital divide, they explore how infrastructures, platforms, and access shape what gets preserved, shared, and valued. Recorded during Simpson’s visit to Tilburg University, this conversation asks: who gets to be visible in the archive, and on whose terms?
