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Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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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.



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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
People
Dan Hicks
Sarah Mallet
Wes Williams
Leonie Ansems de Vries
Mary Bosworth
Lisa Kennedy
John McTernan
Keywords
refugee
borders
displacement
calais
book discussion
jungle
migrants
migration
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 06/10/2019
Duration: 00:46:23

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