MeLa Publications
The MeLa editorial activity promotes the widespread use of the advancement of knowledge produced by the Project. Special policies have been agreed by the Consortium Partners in order to guarantee a high open access level to all Project products, and in particular to make publications readable and downloadable.
In this page, you can find a selection of MeLa related documents, and the articles, papers and books produced by the Consortium members within the MeLa Project, which will be available free of charge whenever possible and, in any case, at least in their executive summary.
These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.
>> Access the series of open-access digital publications which report the main findings ensued from the research activities developed by the different MeLa Research Fields.
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Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe
Whitehead, Christopher, Katherine Lloyd, Susannah Eckersley and Rhiannon Mason, eds. 2015. Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe. Peoples, Places and Identities. Farnham: Ashgate.
Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe Christopher Whitehead, Katherine Lloyd, Susannah Eckersley, Rhiannon Mason - Books - March 2015 Fd01 Document more
The imperatives surrounding museum representations of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. The political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at all scales, from local, civic, regional to national and supranational. At the same time, changes in population flows, migration patterns and demographic movement now underscore both cultural and political practice, be it in the accommodation of ‘diversity’ in cultural and social policy, scholarly explorations of hybridity or in state immigration controls. This book investigates the historical and contemporary relationships between museums, places and identities. It brings together contributions from international scholars, academics, practitioners from museums and public institutions, policymakers, and representatives of associations and migrant communities to explore all these issues.
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Placing Migration in European Museums
Whitehead, Christopher, Susannah Eckersley, and Rhiannon Mason. 2012. Placing Migration in European Museums: Theoretical, Contextual and Methodological Foundations. Milan: Politecnico di Milano DPA.
Placing Migration in European Museums Christopher Whitehead, Susannah Eckersley, Rhiannon Mason Category: Books - Books - November 2012 Fd01 Document more
How might we understand and study museum representations pertaining to place, identity and migration in contemporary Europe? This question is addressed in this book, which is the first of a series produced by researchers at Newcastle University in the context of the EC-funded project ‘European Museums in an Age of Migrations’ (MeLa). The book sets out the theoretical and methodological premises for Research Field 1 of the MeLa Project. This Research Field focuses on Museums and Identity in History and today, and will develop policy-relevant arguments concerning the cultural significance of place within museum representations for questions of contemporary European identities and notions of citizenship.