WRITING

• (under contract) Garland, M. (2026). Making Places Inbetween—Resisting and Inhabiting Border Regimes. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (PhD book)
  

• (forthcoming) Garland, M. (2026). Sounding a Speculative Past: Sound of history as a global resonance. HUB Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, Issue #6 / Spring 2026 (Multimodal publication in Research Catalogue).
• (forthcoming) Garland, M. (2026). Listening to the Archipelago: Sounding Islands in the Wake of Water. Tsonami Ediciones Valparaíso.
  
• ︎Garland, M. (2025). Sounding the Maltese Archipelago Frequencies. High Pitch Magazine Issue 02 — Environmental Sound. Guest edited by Samuel Hertz. (Sonic Essay)
• ︎Garland, M. (2025). Unfolding Sonic Artifacts. In M. Le Calvé, P. Beck, & R. Stock (Eds.), Drift. Sink. Emerge. Repeat. Diffracting the Critical through Multimodal Submersion: A Catalogue to the STS HUB 2025 Exhibition. (Multimodal publication)
• ︎Garland, M. (2025). Water Narratives: Islands as Spaces of Possibility. In Journeys Ocean Archive, “OCEAN / UNI's bárawa. (Sonic Essay)
• (forthcoming) Aidoo, A., Garland, M., Jacobs,E., Maier. J. C., Pavezi,I., Pearson,N.,  Römhild,R., Staiblin,E.,  Taleb,A., Trias.,P. (2025). Decolonial Flânerie: Public City Walking as Collective Ethnography. English version in Berliner Blätter.
• ︎Garland, M. (2024). Collective listening as an ethnographic method: 'Oceanic Memory' a sonic experience as an active listening exercise. Tsonami Ediciones Valparaíso. Emanates from the PhD project. 
• ︎︎Garland, M. (2024). Attempting to Decolonize Oneself: Sonorities between  the ‘West’ and the ‘South’. The February Journal, 03: 139-160. (peer review) Emanates from the PhD project. (Sonic essay)
• ︎Garland, M., Maier, J. C., Taleb, A. (2024). Sensing the City: Decolonial Flânerie and the Traces of Listening and Remembering in Contested Urban Spaces. In: Anna-Sophie Springer & Raul Walch (Eds.), Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island. Berlin: K. Verlag.175-184.
• ︎Garland, M. (2022). Sound map of a migratory journey. FES Journal (From the European South). Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities, Special Issue 11. (peer review) Emanates from the PhD project. (Sonic essay)
• ︎︎︎︎Garland, M. (2021). The Calais Jungle: Between liminality, border space and place of possibilities. Post(s), volumen 7 (pp. 68-97). Quito: USFQ PRESS. Revista artística (Peer review). Emanates from the PhD project. (ES)

• (Forthcoming) Garland, M., Maier, J. C., Lyonga, Hn., Person, N. (2026). Traces of Counter-Mapping: Rethinking Berlin after the Berlin Conference. Book-chapter, part of the book The (Counter) Atlas, Lee Douglas, Magdalena Buchczyk, Aimée Joyce (Eds.). (Peer review). De Gruyter Press.
• (Forthcoming) Aidoo, A., Garland, M., Jacobs, E., Maier. J. C., Pavezi,I., Pearson,N.,  Römhild,R., Staiblin,E.,  Taleb,A., Trias.,P. (2025). Decolonial Flânerie: Public City Walking as Collective Ethnography. German version part of the book Power Guide „Arts-based Methods” Transformative Alliances in Social Educational Spaces, Jasmin Donlic & Caroline Schmit (Eds.) in Beltz Verlag (print). and Beltz Juvent (online). (DE)
• ︎Correa, C., Garland, M. (2021). Hybrid cultures & diaspora, Double square. In Memoria B.A.S.E Tsonami 2018-2021 Colón 2390. Tsonami Ediciones Valparaíso. 38-45. 
• ︎Garland, M., (2021). The Jungle of Calais: A place of Resistance and Monumentality. In T. Boos, D. Ietri, E. Mastropietro (Eds.), img journal 05/2021 Imaging peripheries (pp.112-135 ). Alghero, IT: Publica. (peer review) Emanates from the PhD project.

• ︎Garland, M. (Eds.) (2025) Somewhere Inbetween, Un Lugar intermedio. Catalog/magazine collaborative PhD exhibition. Funded by Humboldt universität.
• ︎Garland, M., Maier, J. C. (Eds.) (2024) Counter-Mapping: A zine for experimental cartographies as neighboring practices. Magazine Amo Collective Berlin. Part of DRAUSSENSTADT. Funded by the Berlin Project Fund for Urbane Praxis and the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

• ︎Momade, S., Garland, M. (2025). Dialogue short essay: Reimagining Anton Whilmen Amo through Portraiture. In Behind the Scenes, Project Vox. Duke University.  

• ︎Garland, M., hn.lyonga (2024). Poem: This Is Where We Are. Curatorial manifesto of the Poetic Cartography Festival. Performed at the Opening of the Festival, November 15, 2024, at Amo Salon, Berlin-Mitte. This work is published in the magazine Counter-Mapping, Melanie Garland, Carla J. Maier (Eds.).

• ︎Garland, M. (2023). Blog essay: How can sonority be devices for fieldwork?  Call for inventions 1.0: Field devices, XCOL Web. Emanates from the PhD project.
• ︎︎Garland, M. (2023). Blog essay: How can artist diaries be devices for fieldwork? Call for inventions 1.0: Field devices, XCOL Web. Emanates from the PhD project. 
• ︎︎Garland, M. (2022). Poem: Another sky in the north. Written and voice-off recorded at the art residency ISLA, SACO 1.0 Art Bienal, Antofagasta-Chile. 
• ︎︎Garland, M. (2021). Poem: A Liminality Machine. Performed in an experimental sound recording part of the session N. 15 of NomadicRadio Berlin/ April 13th 2021. 
• ︎︎Garland, M. (2020). Poem: Everyday is Sunday. Exhibited in a group show Trojan Tactics at INI gallery in czech republic, Curated by Jana Doudova.
• ︎︎Garland, M. (2020). Poem: Sunset on a Sunday. Exhibited in a group show Trojan Tactics at INI gallery in the Czech Republic, Curated by Jana Doudova.