Lande: The contemporary archaeology of the Calais "Jungle"
The Calais "Jungle", as it became known, was a refugee camp that held 10,000 people from Syria, Somalia, Eritrea and elsewhere between January 2015 and October 2016. This week, Tom Overton talks to Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, about a new exhibition (https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/event/lande) and book that collects material, digital and visual artifacts from Calais, asking how these objects can help us understand the camp, and 21st century migration. SELECTED REFERENCES Majid Adin - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/newpxd/the-refugee-who-smuggled-himself-out-of-the-camps-and-into-rocket-man Giorgio Agamben Hannah Arendt L'Auberge des Migrants - https://www.laubergedesmigrants.fr/en/home/ Banu Cennetoğlu, ‘The List’ (2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/banu-cennetoglu-interview-turkish-artist-the-list-europe-migrant-crisis Danny Dorling Michel Foucault Caroline Gregory (photographer) DAN HICKS & SARAH MALLET, Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond (2019) - https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/lande-the-calais-jungle-and-beyond Ashile Mbembe - https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-society-of-enmity NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF, The Appearance of Black Lives Matter (2017) - https://namepublications.org/item/2017/the-appearance-of-black-lives-matter/ Sue Partridge (arts activist)