{"id":3833,"date":"2026-05-11T21:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/?page_id=3833"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:19:39","slug":"melanie-garland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/people\/current-members\/melanie-garland\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am an artist-researcher and scholar based in Berlin, holding a PhD from the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University. I also have a background in museum and Heritage studies and Visual Art. Currently, I am a guest artist-researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Landesstelle f\u00fcr Alltagskultur (IfEE) and affiliated with the Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Maritime Geschichte.<\/p>\n

My work explores the intersection of art, anthropology, and cultural heritage\u00a0through object-based installations, performance-based sound art, and curatorial processes rooted in feminist ethics of care. My recent research focuses on multispecies studies and the sonic dimensions of oceans and deserts, approached from postcolonial and ecological perspectives. This forms the basis of my current postdoctoral research on the material culture and environmental transformations of the 19th-century saltpeter trade between Germany and Chile, examining its implications for German colonialism in the Atacama Desert and the contemporary global context of lithium extraction.<\/p>\n

Contact: m@melaniegarland.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Website: melaniegarland.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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2026<\/h3>

Melanie Garland<\/p>

Making Places Inbetween\u2014Resisting and Inhabiting Border Regimes. Book<\/span> Forthcoming<\/span><\/p>

transcript Verlag , <\/span>Forthcoming, (PhD book)<\/span>.<\/p>

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Sounding a Speculative Past: Sound of histories as a global resonance. Journal Article<\/span> Forthcoming<\/span><\/p>
In: <\/span>HUB Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, <\/span>iss. 6, <\/span>Forthcoming, (RC Multimodal publication)<\/span>.<\/p>
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Melanie Garland, Maier, J. C., Lyonga, Hn., Person, N. <\/p>
Traces of Counter-Mapping: Rethinking Berlin after the Berlin Conference. Book Chapter<\/span> Forthcoming<\/span><\/p>
In: <\/span>Lee Douglas, Magdalena Buchczyk, Aim\u00e9e Joyce (Ed.): The (Counter) Atlas, <\/span>De Gruyter Press, <\/span>Forthcoming, (Peer review)<\/span>.<\/p>
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2025<\/h3>
Melanie Garland<\/p>
Sounding the Maltese Archipelago Frequencies. Journal Article<\/span> <\/p>
In: <\/span>High Pitch Magazine, <\/span>iss. 2, <\/span>2025<\/span>, (Sonic Essay)<\/span>.<\/p>
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Water Narratives: Islands as Spaces of Possibility Journal Article<\/span> <\/p>
In: <\/span>Journeys Ocean Archive, \u201cOCEAN \/ UNI's b\u00e1rawa, <\/span>2025<\/span>, (Sonic Essay)<\/span>.<\/p>
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2024<\/h3>
Melanie Garland<\/p>
Collective listening as an ethnographic method: 'Oceanic Memory', a sonic experience as an active listening exercise. Journal Article<\/span> <\/p>
In: <\/span>Tsonami Ediciones Valpara\u00edso, <\/span>2024<\/span>, (Emanates from the PhD project)<\/span>.<\/p>
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Attempting to Decolonize Oneself: Sonorities between the \u2018West\u2019 and the \u2018South\u2019. Journal Article<\/span> <\/p>
In: <\/span>The February Journal, <\/span>iss. 3, <\/span>pp. 139-160, <\/span>2024<\/span>, (Emanates from the PhD project; Sonic essay)<\/span>.<\/p>
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Sensing the City: Decolonial Fl\u00e2nerie and the Traces of Listening and Remembering in Contested Urban Spaces. Book Chapter<\/span> <\/p>
In: <\/span>Anna-Sophie Springer, Raul Walch (Ed.): Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island., <\/span>pp. 175-184, <\/span>K. Verlag, <\/span>2024<\/span>.<\/p>
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