
Laia Colomer
- Forsker —
- Researcher
E-mail: laia.colomer@niku.no
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Department:
- Heritage and society
Dr. Laia Colomer is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in public archaeology and heritage studies. Her work focuses on the way heritage is involved in the process of remembering, meaning making, and construction of identity today, involving key concepts such as globalisation, multiple migration, mobilities, collective memory and heritage significance.
Drawing on the mobilities turn, the affect theory and the 2005 Faro Convention’s notion of heritage communities, her research nowadays explores how globalization is affecting the use and meaning of cultural heritage. Educated in Barcelona (PhD. in Prehistory Archaeology, UAB) and in London (MA in Public Archaeology, UCL), she has combined an academic career in Sweden, The Netherlands and Spain, with a professional career in cultural heritage management in Spain and Italy, including in both paths several European projects.
In the field of heritage management, she worked in city museums on the management of urban archaeological sites, and the politics of identity in archaeology. As an archaeologist she worked on gender and material culture, chaîne opératoire and pottery craft technology, and cultural landscapes.
Selected publications from Cristin:
Participation and cultural heritage management in Norway. Who, when, and how people participate
Colomer, Laia.
- 2023
- International Journal of Cultural Policy
- Academic article
Memorializing forced migration and beyond. Commemorating Salvador Allende in Barcelona as memory-work in the context of civic memory and the politics of belonging
Colomer, Laia.
- 2021
- International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS)
- Academic article
Exploring participatory heritage governance after the EU Faro Convention
Colomer, Laia.
- 2021
- Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development
- Academic article
Stones, Books and Flags: El Born and the role of archaeological heritage under the Barcelona model
Colomer, Laia.
- 2019
- European Journal of Archaeology
- Academic article
Feeling like at home in airports. Experiences, memories and affects of placeness among Third Culture Kids
Colomer, Laia.
- 2018
- Applied Mobilities
- Academic article
Heritage on the move. Cross-cultural heritage as a response to globalisation, mobilities and multiple migrations
Colomer, Laia.
- 2017
- International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS)
- Academic article