Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

Book at Lunchtime seminar held on 16th October 2019. How can
Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This
ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital
culture from the Calais 'Jungle' - the informal camp where, before
its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people
lived. Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we
understand ‘crisis’, activism, and the infrastructure of national
borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the
politics of environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire.
Introducing a major collaborative exhibit at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers
Museum, the book argues that an anthropological focus on duration,
impermanence and traces of the most recent past can recentre the
ongoing human experiences of displacement in Europe today. Authors
Professor Dan Hicks and Dr Sarah Mallet were in conversation at
this TORCH Book at Lunchtime event with Professor Mary Bosworth, Dr
Leonie Ansems de Vries, Lisa Kennedy and John McTernan, introduced
by Professor Wes Williams. Book at Lunchtime is a series of
bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with
commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to
attend and open to all.